This paper presents a new approach for on-line handwritten signature verification, which exploits the potential of multiple reference sets. Preliminarily, system performance is estimated using different sets of reference signatures for each writer. Successively, reference sets leading to diverse system behaviors are enrolled into the personal knowledge-base and used in a multi-stage verificatio...

Background The widespread availability of the personal computer is leadin g to changes in the ways that students compose and submit written tasks. Increasing inumbers of students now are more comfortable in composing a written response direc.ly into a word processor rather than writing the response in longhand and getting it typed when finished. In some schools, many students have been using la...

background attitude and knowledge of the different groups of society play an important role in facilitating living conditions and meeting the needs of the disabled elderly. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the attitude and knowledge of medical sciences students toward the disabled elderly from different angles. patients and methods ninety students from semnan university of medical...

This paper discusses development issues for a software-based, real-time virtual audio rendering system, Sound Lab (SLAB), designed to work in the personal computer environment using a standard signal-processing library. The system, which is being developed as a tool for the study of spatial hearing, takes advantage of the low-cost PC platform while providing a flexible, maintainable, and extens...

Due to readily available and affordable personal computers, coupled with surging Internet use, e-learning has become popular among undergraduate and graduate students. Social presence is an emerging concept in e-learning. Although the feeling of social presence is an essential factor in elearning, achieving it can be difficult. The absence of faceto-face communication and the perception of psyc...

The Internet has had a major impact on threats and opportunities Página 1 de 21 Emerging Patterns from the Dynamic Capabilities of Internet Intermediarie 11/10/01 http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol5/issue3/scott.html available to intermediaries in many industries. Prior research using transaction cost theory shows four possible outcomes: Internet supplemented direct market, threatened intermediarie...

Decision making has always been a difficult process, based on various combinations if objectivity (when scientific tools were used) and subjectivity (considering that decisions are finally made by people, with their strengths and weaknesses). The IT revolution has also reached the areas of management and decision making, helping managers make better and more informed decisions by providing them...