Cervical cancer is the one of the most common cancers in women worldwide, affecting
around 570,000 new patients each year. Although there have been great improvements …

Background In many animals, exaggerated sex-typical male traits are preferred by females,
and may be a signal of both past and current disease resistance. The proposal that the same …

Mobile health care technology (mHealth) has the potential to improve communication and
clinical information management in disasters. This study reviews the literature on health care …

Background: Each year, approximately 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide,
accounting for 1–2 in every 100 deaths. It is always a tragic event with a huge impact on …

Whilst work is keenly progressing on ever more ways to authenticate people and enhance
security via the use of biometrics, sometimes the ethical context is overlooked. One of the …

This chapter describes the ethical and privacy implications concerning biometric technology.
Two emerging issues related to biometrics, function creep and informatization of the body …

Unlike the western medical approach where a drug is prescribed against specific symptoms
of patients, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment has a unique step, which is called …

We analyze the privacy implications of identity references in biometric databases in which
either raw biometric samples or templates are stored. The analysis was inspired by the …

A combinação de fontes biométricas não redundantes da multibiometria supera a precisão
de cada fonte individual (monobiometria). Além do mais, dois problemas em biometria …

Line detection algorithms are used by many application fields, such as computer vision and
automation, as a basis for more complex analysis. For instance, line information can be used …