Library-led publishing is one of the new approaches to journal publishing and open access that has grown tremendously in the last few years. A 2010 MLIS-funded survey found that 55% of respondents—from U.S. academic libraries of all different types and sizes—were already implementing or developing a publishing program. Library-led publishing has garnered such momentum because, by offering lowor...

Biometric technologies are becoming inevitable in highly secure identification and personal verification solutions. With an increase in transaction frauds, security breaches the need for highly secure identification and personal verification technologies is becoming need of the hour. The major advantage of biometric system over traditional methods is that they are typically unique for each pers...

The traditional approach taken to the provision of music for the print impaired by major organisations has been largely concerned with Braille Music. However, reading Braille Music is a specialised skill and not all visually impaired people can learn this skill. There are some technologies available which allow the print-impaired to service themselves but there remains a lot of work to be done ...

This paper reports on an analysis of 60 print and online articles collected in a metropolitan area Canada that describe children’s digital engagement through focus ‘early literacy’ or ‘digital literacy’. Findings reveal mixed messages about use technology create competing frames for adults supporting (or not) young literacy practices. Digital was often characterized as something to limit/contro...

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The streamed storage format for sparse matrices showed good performance improvement for sparse matrix and vector multiply (SpMV) compared with compressed sparse row (CSR) and block CSR (BCSR) formats, particularly on IBM Power processors. We extend the format to exploit single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions in order to utilize the vector unit, and discuss how the streamed formats...

Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on fingerprints of patients with alopecia areata. The control cases were older than 50 years old without any history of alopecia areata. Dermatoglyphical trials of total fingers were al...