Biometric authentication is getting increasingly popular and demands a wide range of solutions to against increasing cybercrimes and digital identity thefts.This paper proposes a new privacy-preserving cancelable biometric authentication key Instant Finishing Spray agreement scheme, which improves the existing authentication scheme based on ECC.We
Application of the Support Vector Machine to Predict Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Cattle
This study presented a potentially useful alternative approach to ascertain the presence of subclinical and clinical mastitis in dairy cows using support vector machine (SVM) techniques.The proposed method detected mastitis in a cross-sectional representative sample of Holstein dairy cattle milked using an automatic milking system.The study used su
Connectedness and systemic risk of the banking industry along the Belt and Road
This paper adopts the tail-event driven network (TENET) framework to explore the connectedness and systemic risk of the banking industry along the Belt and Road (B&R) based on weekly returns of 377 publicly-listed banks from 2014 Grooming and Care to 2019.We conduct the connectedness analysis from four levels (i.e., system, region, country and inst
Contextualizing Scenarios to Explore Social-Ecological Futures: A Three Step Participatory Case Study for the Humboldt Current Upwelling System
In the face of global change, the exploration of possible futures of marine social-ecological systems (MSES) becomes increasingly important.A variety of models aims at improving our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and complexities by assessing how systems react to internal and external drivers of change.However, these models are often built fro
Awareness of Asthma Genetics in Pakistan: A Review with Some Recommendations
About 334 million people worldwide have been affected by asthma and additionally 100 million expected to have asthma by the year 2025.Being the sixth most populous and economically developing country and with the increasing trend of urbanization and due to poor health facilities, lacking the knowledge of the Films causes of the disease, increased p