This paper seeks to apply Identity Management (IDM) principles to the social grant distribution process in South Africa, which has been prone to fraud and corruption. It discusses the social grant distribution process and the problems encountered. Suggested solutions to the problems are highlighted and these include moving from an Isolated IDM architecture to either a Federated and/or Centralis...

This paper considers some permutation flow shop scheduling problems with a learning effect on no-idle dominant machines. The objective is to minimize maximum completion time. This objective is considered under following dominant machines constraint: idm, ddm, idm–ddm and ddm–idm. We present a polynomial-time solution algorithm for each of the above cases. 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

VANETs are composed of a number of vehicles moving on city roads, able to interconnect with one another without a fixed infrastructure. Improvisation of a new vehicular communication system should entitle a node to travel safely with high speed mobility while maintaining seamless interconnectivity. To evaluate the impact of mobility models such as FTM, IDM, IDM-IM and IDM-LC on VANETs routing p...

Background: Despite significantly increased input from multidisciplinary teams during antenatal period, pregnancy outcome from women with type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes mellitus (DM) remain substantially worse than that of general obstetric population. In Iraq, the true magnitude of infant of diabetic mother (IDM) is not well known as health system has been badly eroded over the period...

BACKGROUND Insertion duplication mutagenesis (IDM) and in-frame deletion (IFD) are common techniques for studying gene function, and have been applied to pneumolysin (ply), a virulence gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae (D39). Discrepancies in virulence between the two techniques were observed in both the previous and present studies. This phenomenon was also observed during mutation analysis of ...

The Feedback Error Learning (FEL) was found to be applicable to joint angle control by FES in our previous study. However, the inverse dynamics model (IDM) in the FEL-FES controller was not learned appropriately in some cases. In this paper, 4 methods of applying the FEL to FES control were compared in controlling 1-DOF movement of the wrist joint stimulating 2 muscles through computer simulati...

Identity management (IdM) systems are information systems that help to manage an individual’s credentials. This occurs through the establishment, description, maintenance, and eventual destruction of an identity. There are numerous IdM systems in place today that follow a general framework, yet provide users of the system with different solutions. This chapter will present architecture and appl...

The article argues for a shift of perspective in identity management (IDM) research and development. Accessibility and usability issues affect identity management to such an extent that they demand a reframing and reformulation of basic designs and requirements of modern identity management systems. The rationale for the traditional design of identity management systems and mechanisms has been ...

background: infants of diabetic mothers (idm) is a critical issue in pediatrics, which is regarded as a major risk factor for birth trauma, respiratory distress syndrome (rds), birth asphyxia, transient tachypnea of the newborn (ttn) and jaundice. idm is also a risk factor for microvascular (e.g., ocular and renal complications) and macrovascular complications (e.g., cerebrovascular accident, a...