Wearable computing aims to empower people by providing intelligence embedded within garments. It relies on sensors placed at different locations of the body. To foster useracceptance sensors should be small, light, and unobtrusive. In this paper we present a wearable platform that addresses those challenges: a miniature networked SensorButton with the form factor of a button, so that it can be ...

Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behavioural Analysis (HUMABIO) (2007) is an EU Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) where new types of biometrics are combined with state-of-the-art sensorial technologies in order to enhance security in a wide spectrum of applications. The project aims to develop a modular, robust, multimodal biometrics security authenti...

Mobile Ad-hoc networks are inherently prone to security attacks, with node mobility being the primary cause in allowing security breaches. This makes the network susceptible to Byzantyne faults with packets getting misrouted or dropped. We propose solutions using an unobtrusive monitoring technique to locate malicious packet dropping. This technique uses information from different network layer...

Although Fortran is not a pleasant language to use, it does have the advantages of universality and (usually) relative efficiency. The Ratfor language attempts to conceal the main deficiencies of Fortran while retaining its desirable qualities, by providing decent control flow statements: statement grouping if-else and switch for decision-making while, for, do, and repeat-until for looping brea...

Digital watermarking is a process of embedding unobtrusive marks or labels into digital content. These embedded marks are typically imperceptible (invisible) that can later be detected or extracted. This paper describes watermarking process and attacks on watermarks. Also a focus is made on various techniques of implementing watermarks. In general, any watermarking scheme consists of three part...

the purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of iranian efl learners. the data were collected through the survey of reading strategies (sors) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...