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The identification of printed materials is a critical and challenging issue for security purposes, especially when it comes to documents such as banknotes, tickets, or rare collectable cards: eligible targets for ad hoc forgery. State-of-the-art meth...

This paper proposes an architecture for biometric electronic identification document (e-ID) system based on Blockchain for citizens identity verification in transactions corresponding to the notary, registration, tax declaration and payment, basic he...

This environmental telephone interview scan was designed to identify: (1) how hospitals in one Canadian province incorporated tobacco use identification/documentation systems into practice; and, (2) challenges/issues with tobacco identification/docum...

This study examines the association of access to concordant identity documents with attempting suicide in the last year among transgender and nonbinary youth. Data came from 6581 transgender and nonbinary youth who completed an online survey of lesbi...

Despite the importance of electronic health records data, less attention has been given to data quality. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of COVID-19 patients’ records and their readiness for secondary use. We conducted a retrospective...

With the rapidly growing number of scientific publications, researchers face an increasing challenge of discovering the current research topics and methodologies in a scientific domain. This paper describes an unsupervised topic detection approach th...

The aim of the study was to ascertain how documentation assisted in the recovery of stolen and illicitly trafficked objects at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The research objectives were to: Assess the adequacy of the gallery’s documentation...

The ability to detect the presence of body fluids is a crucial first step in documenting and processing forensic evidence. The Rapid Stain IDentification (RSID™) tests for blood, saliva, semen and urine are lateral flow immunochromatographic strip te...

Background: This technical note presents a methodological approach to agrichemical inventory documentation. It complements exposure assessments in field settings with time-restricted observational periods. Conducted in Michoacán, Mexico, this...

This is the first study to systematically track the tobacco use prevalence in an entire emergency department (ED) population and compare age-stratified rates to the general population using national, provincial, and regional comparisons. A tobacco us...

Automated citation analysis is becoming increasingly important in assessing the scientific quality of publications and identifying patterns of collaboration among researchers. However, little attention has been paid to analyzing the scientific conten...

In the framework of palaeography, the availability of both effective image analysis algorithms, and high-quality digital images has favored the development of new applications for the study of ancient manuscripts and has provided new tools for decisi...

Various modern security systems follow a tendency to simplify the usage of the existing biometric recognition solutions and embed them into ubiquitous portable devices. In this work, we continue the investigation and development of our method for sec...

Given the lack of investments in surveillance in remote places, this paper presents a prototype that identifies vehicles in irregular conditions, notifying a group of people, such as a network of neighbors, through a low-cost embedded system based on...

Author identification is an important aspect of literary analysis, studied in natural language processing (NLP). It aids identify the most probable author of articles, news texts or social media comments and tweets, for example. It can be applied to...

Criminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collect...

Identifying the scriptwriter in historical manuscripts is crucial for historians, providing valuable insights into historical contexts and aiding in solving historical mysteries. This research presents a robust deep learning system designed for class...

This paper discusses the tool for the main text and image extraction (extracting and parsing the important data) from a web document. This paper describes our proposed algorithm based on the Document Object Model (DOM) and natural language processing...

The identification of human remains is challenging mostly due to the bad condition of the remains and the available background information that is sometimes limited. The current case report is related to the identification of an unknown soldier from...

Epidermal characters of nine of the Central European Equisetum species were documented using both scanning electron and light microscopy. The arrangement of silica pilulae on the subsidiary cells of stomata as well as the type and the arrangement of...

In forensic medicine, myocarditis is a complicated topic in the context of sudden death and medical malpractice. A good knowledge of the etiopathology, histopathology, and available literature are both indispensable and essential for the correct mana...

Data sharing is a central aspect of judicial systems. The openly accessible documents can make the judiciary system more transparent. On the other hand, the published legal documents can contain much sensitive information about the involved persons o...

The systematic approach to the establishment of a cadaster in most European countries has resulted in a variety of cadastral documents. Most official cadastral data are from the 19th and 20th centuries and are stored as hard copies or electronic data...

Documentation of community pharmacists’ clinical activities, such as the identification and management of drug-related problems (DRPs), is recommended. However, documentation is not systematic in Swiss community pharmacies, and relevant informa...

A bibliometric analysis of 349 scholarly documents published on the topic plant nativity and endemism from 1991–2022 was carried out using the ‘bibliometrix’ tool, developed through the R programming language. The results revealed a...

Several families of higher fungi contain mycotoxins that cause serious or even fatal poisoning when consumed by humans. The aim of this review is to inventory, from an analytical point of view, poisoning cases linked with certain significantly toxic...

Background: Documentation of advance care planning for patients with terminal cancer is known to be poor. Here, we describe a quality improvement initiative. Methods: Patients receiving palliative chemotherapy for metastatic lung, pancreatic, colorec...

This Special Issue of Genealogy examines the use of evidence, documentation, and methodology in family history and genealogical studies, and welcomes case studies that examine how to document individuals and relationships. A critical component of sch...

As a crucial national security defense line, the existing risk prevention and screening system of customs falls short in terms of intelligence and diversity for risk identification factors. Hence, the urgent issues to be addressed in the risk identif...

To carry out data analysis, it is necessary to implement a model that guides the process in an orderly and sequential manner, with the aim of maintaining control over software development and its documentation. One of the most widely used tools in th...

Colocasia esculenta tuber agglutinin (CEA), a mannose binding lectin, exhibits insecticidal efficacy against different hemipteran pests. Dysdercus cingulatus, red cotton bug (RCB), has also shown significant susceptibility to CEA intoxication. Howeve...

With the increasing use of smartphones for a wide variety of online services, states and countries are issuing official applications to store government-issued documents that can be used for identification (e.g., electronic identity cards), health (e...

Requirements documents can contain several thousand individual requirements. They must be error-free to avoid unnecessary complications and costs in the later product development stages. An important part of this is to identify contradictions between...

This study presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) methodology, focusing on identifying barriers to its adoption. The review encompasses an analysis of 287 documents from 2013 to 2023, including conference a...

Ilheus virus is an arbovirus with the potential for central nervous system involvement. Accurate diagnosis is a challenge due to similar clinical symptoms and serologic cross-reactivity with other flaviviruses. Here, we describe the first documented...

Writer identification has become a hot research topic in the fields of pattern recognition, forensic document analysis, the criminal justice system, etc. The goal of this research is to propose an efficient approach for writer identification based on...

There is a long history of using handwritten signatures to verify or authenticate a “signer” of the signed document. With the development of Internet technology, many tasks can be accomplished through the document management system, such as the appli...

Lithium-ion batteries typically exhibit a transition to a more rapid capacity fade trend when subjected to extended charge–discharge cycles and storage conditions. The identification of the knee point can be valuable to identify the more severe...

In the age of digitalization, the collection and analysis of large amounts of data is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to improve their businesses and processes, such as the introduction of new services or the realization of resource-e...

To date, Philaenus spumarius (Linnaeus, 1758), Philaenus italosignus Drosopoulos & Remane, 2000, and Neophilaenus campestris (Fallén, 1805) are proven vectors of the phytopathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al., 1987 in Europe...

Despite the fact that Candida albicans is documented to be the main cause of human candidiasis, non-C. albicans Candida (NCAC) species, such as Candida glabrata and Candida tropicalis, are also suggested to be implicated in the etiopathogenesis of op...

It has been well documented that both risk perception and group identification are related to psychosocial well-being. However, their combined effect has rarely been analyzed. We examined the combined effect of perceived risk associated with COVID-19...

Background: Patients presenting at the emergency department (ED) have a wide variety of complaints. In some of those patients a possible reason for their complaints might be an adverse drug reaction (ADR). An appropriate identification of ADR in this...

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually by assign...

Coenosia attenuata is a member of the tigrina-group of Coenosia (sensu Hennig 1964) and is a capable generalist predator in its larval and adult stages. C. attenuata is common in greenhouses worldwide, however, there are few documented cases of its p...

Flash flood is one of the extremely destructive natural disasters in the world. In recent years, extreme rainfall events caused by global climate change have increased, and flash flood disasters are becoming the main types of natural disasters in the...

Algae represent a large and diverse group of photosynthetic organisms inhabiting all aquatic habitats. Although the traditional assessment of algal diversity relies mainly on microscopy-based morphological identification, certain limitations exist. I...

Safety risk identification throughout deep excavation construction is an information-intensive task, involving construction information scattered in project planning documentation and dynamic information obtained from different field sensors. However...

In this paper a novel architecture to build biomedical term identification systems is presented. The architecture combines several sources of information and knowledge bases to provide practical and exploration-enabled biomedical term identification...

This study reports 10 freshwater diatom taxa newly recorded from the Nakdonggang River Basin, South Korea, based on samples collected in April 2023. Species identification was conducted using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which enabled detailed...