The Reverend William Bell of Edinburgh (died 1779) had four distinguished sons. Two (George and Robert) became professors of law. John (1763-1820), who was Edinburgh's most distinguished surgeon at the turn of the eighteenth century, was a brilliant teacher and writer and an excellent draughtsman. But the youngest, Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), was the most famous, remembered today for his cont...

Rapid progress made in the field of sensor technology, wireless communication, and computer networks in recent past, led to the development of wireless Ad-hoc sensor networks, consisting of small, low-cost sensors, which can monitor wide and remote areas with precision and liveliness unseen to the date without the intervention of a human operator. This work comes up with a stochastic model for ...

Conventional access control systems are typically based on a single time instant authentication. However, for high-security environments, continuous user verification is needed in order to robustly prevent fraudulent or unauthorized access. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an emerging biometric modality with the following characteristics: (i) it does not require liveliness verification, (ii) ther...

Agent based Cloud computing technology has become a predominant domain nowadays due to rapid increase in enterprise service applications that are built from various services offered by different cloud service providers. In our previous work, we have proposed an abstraction layer of SaaS architecture for Inter-cloud environment, called Enterprise Cloud Bus System (ECBS) and modeled it using Unif...

Data mining has become a necessary and powerful tool in the present era of web and internet communications. It has also evolved into media mining wherein heterogeneous data inputs like figures, videos and audios are gradually getting embedded into the web and this makes it quite complex and different. These and other aspects like currency and ‘liveliness’ of the web bring in more interesting fe...

Urban residents often transform street precincts into places for informal activities through everyday urbanism to meet their daily needs, particularly in traditional city centres. Although strict regulations and control over public space exist, people-centred (bottom-up) interventions usually occur While such action exemplifies the rights people claim suit requirements improve living experience...

The successful holding of the Olympic Games has made attention to sports continue rise. China’s badminton always been at forefront world, and since became an sport, it tasked with winning gold medals. Because entry is simple, a solid mass foundation in China. Badminton very high fitness, confrontation, fun, speed as core stability, accuracy, ruthlessness, liveliness main tactical style. In prof...

Hardware virtualization support has found its way into real-time and embedded systems. It is paramount for an efficient concurrent execution of multiple systems on a single platform, including commodity operating-systems and their applications. Isolation is a key feature for these systems, both in the spatial and temporal domain, as it allows for secure combinations of real-time and non real-ti...

We focus on the automated analysis of spectator crowd, that is, people watching sport contests alive (in stadiums, amphitheaters etc.), or, more generally, people “watching the activities of an event [. . . ] interested in watching something specific that they came to see” [2]. This scenario differs substantially from the typical crowd analysis setting (e.g. pedestrians): here the dynamics of h...

In recent years a number of people have suggested that there is a close link between conscious experience and the differentiation and integration of information in certain areas of the brain. The balance between differentiation and integration is often called information integration, and a number of algorithms for measuring it have been put forward, which can be used to make predictions about c...