As instructors move further into the incorporation of 21st century technologies in adult education, a new paradigm of digitally-enriched mediated learning has emerged. Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Online Technologies and Outcomes provides a comprehensive framework of trends...

The technologies in data mining have been applied to bioinformatics research in the past few years with success, but more research in this field is necessary. While tremendous progress has been made over the years, many of the fundamental challenges in bioinformatics are still open. Data mining...

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As the number of mobile device users increases rapidly and exceeds that of PC users by a large margin, conducting business and services over these mobile devices, also known as mobile commerce is becoming very attractive and is expected to drive the future development of electronic commerce. To...

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Section 2. Smart Identification -- Chapter 2. Wireless Indoor User Positioning and informing / John Garofalakis, Christos Mettouris -- Chapter 3. RFID for Identification of Stolen/Lost Items / John Ayoade, Judith Symonds -- Chapter 4. RFID Technology for Agri-food Traceability Management /...

1. Introduction -- 2. Face and eye detection -- 3. Face modeling -- 4. Face Tracking -- 5. Face recognition -- 6. Facial expression recognition -- 7. Facial gesture recognition -- 8. Human motion analysis -- Abbreviation and symbols -- Appendix -- About the authors -- Index

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