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Robust palmprint identification using efficient enhancement and two‐stage matching technique
IET Image Processing, 2020 Palmprint‐based human authentication has shown great potential for civil, forensic, and corporate security applications in recent years. Palmprint recognition systems suffer because of large palmprint sizes and the presence of a large number of creases ...
Mubeen Ghafoor +4 more
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Fingerprint Recognition Using Local Features
Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2013 Fingerprint recognition is one of the most popular methods used for identification with greater degree of success. The fingerprint has unique characteristics called minutiae, which are points where a curve track finishes, intersect or branches off ...
Gualberto Aguilar +4 more
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Photo go‐alongs for researching the relations between people and place
Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This paper demonstrates the value of photo go‐alongs as a qualitative method for researching the complex relationships between people and place. Three key advantages are discussed. First, photo go‐alongs show how pasts and futures shape the unfolding present. Second, they highlight how biographical and social memories intertwine.
Amy Barron
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White (inter)nationalism, Europe and the ‘distribution of the sensible’
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 1, March 2026.Abstract This intervention approaches the Southport tragedy from the perspective of a protest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the wake of the killings. Like many major towns and cities across the UK, Belfast witnessed anti‐immigrant demonstrations and violence, alongside counterdemonstrations in the aftermath of the events in Southport.
Niall Cunningham
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FINGERPRINTS PREPROCESSING USING WALSH FUNCTIONS
Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences, 2006 Minutiae classification and fingerprint classification in fingerprint evaluating process are very important. Fingerprint image contains about 150 minutiae’s.
Miroslav Bača, Kornelije Rabuzin
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Speeding up and enhancing a large-scale fingerprint identification system on GPU
Journal of Information and Telecommunication, 2018 Fingerprint identification is one of the most common biometric feature problems which is used in many applications. Although state-of-the-art algorithms are very accurate, the need for fast processing a big database of millions of fingerprints is highly ...
Hong Hai Le +2 more
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Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 64-76, March 2026.ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong +3 more
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Latent fingerprints on different type of screen protective films [PDF]
Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University Journal of Science and Technology, 2016 The purpose of this research was to study the quality of latent fingerprint on different types of screen protective films including screen protector, matte screen protector, anti-fingerprint clear screen protector and anti-fingerprint matte screen ...
Yuttana Sudjaroen +1 more
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