A major new professional reference work on fingerprint security systems and technology from leading international researchers in the field Handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all major topics, concepts, and methods for fingerprint security systems This unique reference work is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, and systems administrators

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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

Forecasting with artificial neural networks: the state of the art

A review and tutorial of the fundamental ideas and methods of joint time-frequency distributions is presented. The objective of the field is to describe how the spectral content of a signal changes in time and to develop the physical and mathematical ideas needed to understand what a time-varying spectrum is. The basic gal is to devise a distribution that represents the energy or intensity of a signal simultaneously in time and frequency. Although the basic notions have been developing steadily over the last 40 years, there have recently been significant advances. This review is intended to be understandable to the nonspecialist with emphasis on the diversity of concepts and motivations that have gone into the formation of the field. >

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Time-frequency distributions-a review

1980 Preface * 1999 Preface * 1999 Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1 Circular Logic * 2 Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic) * 3 The Rules of the Ring * 4 Ring Populations * 5 Getting Off the Ring * 6 Attracting Cycles and Isochrons * 7 Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock * 8 Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators * 9 Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media * 10 The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways * 11 The Firefly Machine 12 Energy Metabolism in Cells * 13 The Malonic Acid Reagent ('Sodium Geometrate') * 14 Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes * 15 The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae * 16 Numerical Organizing Centers * 17 Electrical Singular Filaments in the Heart Wall * 18 Pattern Formation in the Fungi * 19 Circadian Rhythms in General * 20 The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion * 21 The Flower of Kalanchoe * 22 The Cell Mitotic Cycle * 23 The Female Cycle * References * Index of Names * Index of Subjects

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The geometry of biological time , by A. T. Winfree. Pp 544. DM68. Corrected Second Printing 1990. ISBN 3-540-52528-9 (Springer)

The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory

This paper presents a 3D Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor system to quickly and reliably identify the precursors that precede every earthquake. When a precursor is detected and is expected to be followed by a major earthquake, the sensor system will analyze and determine the magnitude of the earthquake. This newly proposed 3D MEMS sensor can provide P-waves, S-waves, and surface waves along with timing measurements to a data processing unit. The out coming data is processed and filtered continuously by a set of proposed built-in programmable Digital Signal Process (DSP) filters in order to remove noise and other disturbances and determine an earthquake pattern. Our goal is to reliably initiate an alarm before the arrival of the destructive waves. Keywords:

3D MEMS sensor for application on earthquakes early detection and Nowcast

MatLabISimulink-based design flows are being used by DSP designers to improve time-to-market of FPGA implementations.l Commonly, digital signal processing cores are integrated in an embedded system as coprocessors. Existing CAD tools do not fully address the integration of a DSP coprocessor into an embedded system design. This integration might prove to be time consuming and error prone. It also requires that the DSP designer has an excellent knowledge of embedded systems and computer architecture details. We present a prototyping platform and design flow that allows rapid integration of embedded systems with a wavelet coprocessor. The platform comprises of software and hardware modules that allow a DSP designer a painless integration of a coprocessor with a PowerPC-based embedded system. The platform has a wide range of applications, from industrial to educational environments.

Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Unsupervised Nano-Biomimetic Sensors, and Neural Networks VI

While Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) based Expert Systems (ES) have been discussed before, the amount of knowledge that can be represented in this manner is very small. Combining SLM based ES with page oriented holographic memories not only cures this problem but also produces for optical ES a decisive advantage over optical ES.

Page-Oriented Holographic Memories And Expert Optical Systems

From historical perspective, the recent advancements in better antenna designs, low power circuitry 
integrations and inexpensive fabrication materials have made possible a miniature counter-measure against 
Radar, a clutter behaving like a fake target return called Digital Reflection Frequency Modulation (DRFM). 
Such a military counter-measure have found its way in the commerce as a near field communication known 
as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a passive or active item tag T attached to every readable-writable Smart Card (SC) : Passports ID, medical patient ID, biometric ID, driver licenses, book ID, library 
ID, etc. These avalanche phenomena may be due to the 3 rd Gen phones seeking much more versatile & 
inexpensive interfaces, than the line-of-sight bar-code optical scan. Despite of the popularity of RFID, the 
lacking of Authenticity, Privacy and Security (APS) protection restricted somewhat the wide spread 
commercial, financial, medical, legal, and militarily applications. Conventional APS approach can 
obfuscate a private passkey K of SC with the tag number T or the reader number R , or both, i.e. only T*K 
or R*K or both will appear on them, where * denotes an invertible operation, e.g. EXOR , but not limited to 
it. Then, only the authentic owner, knowing all, can inverse the operation, e.g. EXOR*EXOR = I to find K . 
However, such an encryption could be easily compromised by a hacker seeking exhaustively by 
comparison based on those frequently used words. Nevertheless, knowing biological wetware lesson for 
power of pairs sensors and Radar hardware counter-measure history, we can counter the counter-measure 
DRFM, instead using one RFID tag per SD, we follow the Nature adopting two ears/tags, e.g. each one 
holding portions of the ID or simply two different ID's readable only by different modes of the 
interrogating reader, followed by brain central processor in terms of nonlinear invertible shufflers mixing 
two ID bits. We prefer to adopt such a hardware-software combined hybrid approach because of a too 
limited phase space of a single RFID for any meaningful encryption approach. Furthermore, a useful 
biological lesson is not to put all eggs in one basket, "if you don't get it all, you can't hack it" . According 
to the Radar physics, we can choose the amplitude, the frequency, the phase, the polarization, and two 
radiation energy supply principles, the capacitance coupling (~6m) and the inductance coupling (<1m), to 
code the pair of tags differently. A casual skimmer equipped with single-mode reader can not read all. We 
consider near-field and mid-field applications each in this paper. The near-field is at check-out counters or 
the convey-belt inventory involving sensitive and invariant data. The mid-field search & rescue involves 
not only item/person identification, but also the geo-location. If more RF power becomes cheaper & 
portable for longer propagation distance in the near future, then a triangulation with pair of secured readers, 
located at known geo-locations, could interrogate and identify items/persons and their locations in a GPS-blind 
environment.

Authenticated, private, and secured smart cards (APS-SC)

We describe an affordable, harmless, and administrative (AHA) metabolic biomarker (MBM) for homecare
cancer screening. It may save hundreds of thousands of women’s and thousands of men’s lives every year
from breast cancer and melanoma. The goal is to increase the specificity of infrared (IR) imagery to reduce
the false alarm rate (FAR). The patient’s hands are immersed in icy cold water, about 11oC, for 30 seconds.
We then compare two IR images, taken before and after the cold stimulus, and the difference reveals an
enhanced signal and noise ratio (SNR) at tumorigenesis sites since the contraction of capillaries under cold
challenge is natural to healthy capillaries, except those newly built capillaries during angiogenesis (Folkman,
Nature 1995). Concomitant with the genome and the phenome (molecular signaling by phosphor-mediate
protein causing inflammation by platelet activating factor (PAF) that transform cells from benign to
malignant is the amplification of nitric oxide (NO) syntheses, a short-lived reactive oxygen species (ROS)
that dilates regional blood vessels; superseding normal autonomic nervous system regulation. A rapidly
growing tumor site might implicate accumulation of ROS , for which NO can rapidly stretch the capillary bed
system usually having thinning muscular lining known as Neo-Angiogenesis (NA) that could behave like
 Leaky In-situ Faucet Effect (LIFE) in response to cold challenge.

To emphasize the state of art knowledge of NA , we mentioned in passing the first generation of an anticapillary
growth drug, Avastin by Genetech; it is an antibody protein that is injected for metastasis, while the
second generation drug; Sorafenib by Bayers (2001) and Sutent by Pfizer (2000) both target molecular
signaling loci to block receptor associated tyrosine kinase induced protein phosphorylation in order to reverse
the angiogenesis.

Differentiating benign from malignant in a straightforward manner is required to achieve the wellness
protocol, yet would become prohibitively expensive and impossible to follow through. For example, given
the probability of detection (PD) about 0.1% over unspecified number of years (e.g. menopause years for
breast cancer), one might need hundred thousand volunteers. We suggested a Time Reversal Invariant
Paradigm (TRIP) (a private communication with Vatican) for gathering equivalent cancer symptom imagery
from recovery histories of dozens of patients. We further mixed it with few % of recovered/non-sick cases for
negative controls. Creating Virtual images and running videos of these, frame by frame, in two directions
(forward and backward in time) resulted in identical Receiver Operation Characteristics (ROC) for both the
computer Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) algorithm and the human radiological experts; namely PD versus
 FAR within the standard deviation; even though the physiology could be entirely different. Such a TRIP 
would be true taken by any memory-less instantaneous imagery devices (IR, ultrasound, X-rays, MRI
excluding magnetic hysteresis memory).

In summary, such an affordable, harmless, and administrative, neo-angiogenesis metabolic biomarker can
help monitor the transitioning from benign to malignant states of high-risk home alone seniors and also
monitor the progress of home alone seniors treatment at home. Therefore, Smartphone equipped with a day
camera having IR spectral filtering for a contact self imaging called joystick, when augmented with AHA NA
MBM , may be suited for HAS homecare.

Harold H. Szu

Papers

3D MEMS sensor for application on earthquakes early detection and Nowcast

Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Unsupervised Nano-Biomimetic Sensors, and Neural Networks VI

Page-Oriented Holographic Memories And Expert Optical Systems

Authenticated, private, and secured smart cards (APS-SC)

Neo-angiogenesis metabolic biomarker of tumor-genesis tracking by infrared joystick contact imaging in personalized homecare system