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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Biometrics plays an important role in authentication applications since they are strongly linked to holders. With an increasing growth of e-commerce and e-government, one can expect that biometric-based authentication systems are possibly deployed over ...
Mengxing Li +5 more
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Periodontology 2000, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives Smoking tobacco is a critical modifiable risk factor for periodontal and peri‐implant diseases. This narrative review integrates established behavioral theories with communication‐based psychological processes to propose an evidence‐based model for smoking cessation support in periodontal care.
Christoph A. Ramseier
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Improving fusion with margin-derived confidence in biometric authentication tasks [PDF]
, 2005 . This study investigates a new confidence criterion to improve fusion via a linear combination of scores of several biometric authentication systems.
Poh, Norman +3 more
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Accountability in the Delivery of Guaranteed Employment Through MGNREGA in Rural India
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use the uneven rollout of accountability measures to identify their impact on the provision of guaranteed employment in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. A public information campaign combined with an NGO‐supported grievance mechanism resulted in treated households working over 10 additional days per year in the program. We find no
Tara Bedi, Lukas Kuld
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
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Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies [PDF]
, 2009 Previous research has identified user concerns about biometric authentication technology, but most of this research has been conducted in European contexts. There is a lack of research that has investigated attitudes towards biometric technology in other
Buckner, Kathy +3 more
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IEEE Access, 2019 A multimodal biometric system integrates information from more than one biometric modality to improve the performance of each individual biometric system and make the system robust to spoof attacks. In this paper, we propose a secure multimodal biometric
Mohamed Hammad, Yashu Liu, Kuanquan Wang
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid digitization of welfare states is a global phenomenon, yet its impacts in developing countries, where inequalities and weak infrastructure persist, are poorly understood. This systematic review synthesizes evidence on the implementation of digital welfare systems in developing countries and their effects on social inclusion and ...
Genghua Huang, Samuel Ampadu Oteng
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