Soft biometric traits like gender, age, height, weight, ethnicity, and eye color cannot provide reliable user recognition because they are not distinctive and permanent. However, such ancillary information can complement the identity information provided by the primary biometric traits (face, fingerprint, hand-geometry, iris, etc.). This paper describes a hybrid biometric system that uses face ...

Speech is the output of a time varying excitation excited by a time varying system. It generates pulses with fundamental frequency F0. This time varying impulse trained as one of the features, characterized by fundamental frequencyF0and its formant frequencies. These features vary from one speaker to another speaker and from gender to gender also. In this paper the effect of gender on improving...

this paper studies the extent of ethnic nationalism among the turkmen students and investigates factors which led to the persistence of nationalistic attitude in their view. andrew heywood theories are employed to study the complexity and contradictory aspects of nationalism. hence three types of nationalism are presented for further steps of study. we expect to have the ethnic nationalism in g...

Early recognition of childhood mental-health problems can help minimise long-term negative outcomes. Recognition of mental-health problems, needed for referral and diagnostic evaluation, is largely dependent on health-care professionals' (HCPs) judgement of symptoms presented by the child. This study aimed to establish whether HCPs recognition of mental-health problems varies as a function of t...

Recognition of the important role that women play in Third World development has not necessarily been translated into planning practice. This paper describes the development of gender planning, which in identifying that women and men play different roles in Third World society and therefore often have different needs, provides both the conceptual framework and the methodological tools for incor...

This study proposes a method to determine the gender and age group of a speaker by means of an automatic speech recognition system that is trained on six different sets of phones: one for each intersection of the two gender and three age-group classes. The study uses the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL) with 18 speakers in each class reading a set of 200 phonetically ric...