Genuine Authentication Research Articles

Counterfeit Product Detection using Blockchain Technology

A fraudulent practice where products that are passed off as genuine, product counterfeiting represents consumer fraud, which translates to financial losses. Transparency in supply chain management also faces a big challenge in terms of service repetition and lack of coordination. Numerous remedies have been implemented to battle counterfeiting, among them Artificial Intelligence and RFID, among others, all of which have significant issues such as incivility. This project tackles the problem by applying blockchain technology to improve counterfeit determination and assure product items’ authenticity all over the source chain. The scheme is built on blockchain encryption techniques, which promote a decentralized service for genuine authentication and duplication identification. Through the usage of QR codes and barcodes found in wireless technologies, counterfeit items are eradicated . When scanning a product’s QR or barcode with a camera scanner, the product’s unique code is linked to the blockchain, and all its complete details are stored within it. The database consists of multiple blocks, each one representing a unique product. In case of scanning, if the entered code matches with the database, a popup notification will display on the customer’s device that this product is genuine. Contrary to it, if there is no match found, means it is a counterfeit product; then a popup displays on the customer’s mobile, computer screen about the fraud transaction of the manufacturer from which points this scam is originating if the customer allows doing this action using the application . This will enable users to authenticate products independently without relying on sellers.

Digital clinical empathy in a live chat: multiple findings from a formative qualitative study and usability tests

BackgroundClinical empathy is considered a crucial element in patient-centered care. The advent of digital technology in healthcare has introduced new dynamics to empathy which needs to be explored in the context of the technology, particularly within the context of written live chats. Given the growing prevalence of written live chats, this study aimed to explore and evaluate techniques of digital clinical empathy within a familial cancer-focused live chat, focusing on how health professionals can (a) understand, (b) communicate, and (c) act upon users’ perspectives and emotional states.MethodsThe study utilized a qualitative approach in two research phases. It examined the expected and implemented techniques and effectiveness of digital clinical empathy in a live chat service, involving semi-structured interviews with health professionals (n = 9), focus group discussions with potential users (n = 42), and two rounds of usability tests between health professionals (n = 9) and users (n = 18). Data were examined using qualitative content analysis.ResultsExpected techniques of digital clinical empathy, as articulated by both users and health professionals, involve reciprocal engagement, timely responses, genuine authenticity, and a balance between professionalism and informality, all while going beyond immediate queries to facilitate informed decision-making. Usability tests confirm these complexities and introduce new challenges, such as balancing timely, authentic responses with effective, personalized information management and carefully framed referrals.ConclusionsThe study reveals that the digital realm adds layers of complexity to the practice of clinical empathy. It underscores the importance of ongoing adaptation and suggests that future developments could benefit from a hybrid model that integrates the strengths of both AI and human health professionals to meet evolving user needs and maintain high-quality, empathetic healthcare interactions.

PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND PHARMACEUTICAL EVALUATION OF YASHTIMADHU (GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA LINN.)

Background: Yashtimadhu, botanically identified as Glycyrrhiza glabra L., is a well-known herb in Ayurveda. It is cultivated in India, mainly in Punjab and sub-Himalayan tracts. Root and stolon have been widely used in different formulations. Pancha Vidha Kashaya Kalpanas (Pharmaceutics) are mentioned primarily to achieve the maximum efficacy of the drug and to upgrade its palatability. Some kalpanas are also made to increase the shelf-life of a drug. In the conventional system, dosage forms are mainly preferred based on the solubility of a drug to enhance its bioavailability. Yashtimadhu, as per the literature, have been used in 22 dosage forms. Churna (powder), Kashaya (decoction), Phanta (infusion), Ksheerapaka (milk-based preparation), Taila (Oil-based preparation) and Gritha (ghee-based preparation) are mainly used to enhance its therapeutic utility. Aim: To analyse the pharmacognostic changes; this study evaluated Yashtimadhu and its pharmaceutics for its characteristic features. Method: The formulations were prepared using the classical methods and analysed based on the standard parameters. Result: The evaluation showed that the parameters were comparable to the standard references. Conclusion: The genuine authenticity and shelf-life of a drug remain an essential criterion for a drug to be fit for therapeutic consumption. Evaluation of Yashtimadhu in its different forms for various parameters revealed its significance.

Ethics of Interpretation: Cultures of Jewish Memory in Romanticism

ABSTRACT Romantic memory and hermeneutics may be fruitfully studied alongside conceptualizations of the Haskalah, the account of European Judaism’s embrace of Enlightenment ideals of reason in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which some scholars now see less as a development of the Enlightenment than an engagement of European Romanticism. Jewish literature and philosophy that fall under the aegis of the Haskalah define the claims of Jewish inheritance against its very history. This article argues that the discontinuity with history implied by correction, or progress, is often represented as healed in the fiction that such discontinuity is a discovery of the genuine authenticity of the past. Cultural and religious continuity, then, is a function of interpretation. This article argues further that the study of collective memory calls for interpretive paradigms that themselves depend on conceptualizations of memory. Entering Jewish culture into these circular paradigms—here through the writings of Solomon Maimon, Hyman Hurwitz, and Marion and Celia Moss—both complicates and clarifies them. Jewish memory depends crucially upon interpretation, and takes account of the ethics of interpretation. These authors represent themselves as having propelled themselves into an enlightened present which all the same stands for the authentic meaning of Jewish collective memory.

Secret Questions based Authentication System for Android Smartphone

We present a android application for enhanced security of password recovery questions.We make use of the sensors available in an basic andorid smartphone to provide security.Many web applications as well as android applications use old and easy to break through questions for password retrieval which can be easily guessed by anyone having zero to very little information about the user.Our system is based on users short term memory.We make use of smartphone sensors and ask questions which are only known to user relying on his short term memory for password retrieval.We present sensor based security questions for password retreival which ultimately increase the security and provide genuine authentication.

A Washy Draught and a Husky Morsel: Feeling, Judgment, and the Autonomous Self In Jane Eyre

Victorians Journal 139 A Wa»hy draught and a Husky Morsel: Feeling, Judgment, and the Autonomous §elj In Jane &yrp by Patrick Fessenbecker When Charlotte Bronte’s fiction endorses self-control as an ethical ideal, that endorsement is equivocal and qualified. Bronte was acutely aware of the way selfcontrol could be inhibiting and of the difficulty of capturing clearly just what selfcontrol is. According to The Professor-. Look at the rigid and formal race of old maids ... selfcontrol is so continually their thought, so perpetually their object, that at last it absorbs the softer and more agreeable qualities of their nature; and they die mere models of austerity, fashioned out of a little parchment and much bone. (171)’ It is possible, in other words, to take self-control too far. Through their devotion to principle and careful self-management, old maids have lost some quality essential to human life. Bronte’s metaphors describing this essentially psychological claim are richly physical: the petrifying process of self-control eliminates what is soft and “agreeable,” emptying them out like costumes hanging on a stand, mere “models” of “parchment and bone” rather than fully realized people. This implies there are two related failures: if there is an interpersonal dimension in the loss of one’s agreeableness, there is an intrapersonal element as well. Too much self-control turns one into a model, making authentic action drawn from an inner humanity impossible. Self-control requires, then, a careful balancing: paradoxically, moral agents must control their self-control and prevent it from overwhelming the “softer” parts of their nature. A fascinating passage from Jane Eyre returns to this idea at greater length; comparing Georgiana and Eliza Reed, Jane remarks, “here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid and the other despicably savorless for the want of it. Feeling 1 The sentiment is Crimsworth’s (The Professor)', how a character articulates the balance between feeling and judgment says as much about who they are as it does about Brontg’s views. My thanks to D.D. Morse and Amber Pouliot for their suggestions on this essay. 140 Victorians Journal without judgment is “a washy draught indeed, but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition” (201). Again, Bronte uses physical metaphors: feeling without judgment will be diluted and weak.2 Yet judgment without feeling is similarly flawed: it cannot be digested, either by agents who exert such judgment or by those who must live with them, thus preserving the inter / intrapersonal dimension ofthe reflections on self-control in The Professor. In one sense, the basic idea that Bronte touches on here was common throughout the nineteenth century: a number of writers argued that moral judgment could not replace feeling but must exist in a dialectical tension with it. Bronte’s version ofthis idea is significantly different from that of George Eliot, for instance, who is less interested in ideal moral judgment than in genuine authenticity.3 For her, autonomy lies not in the mastery of feeling by judgment or the overcoming of judgment by feeling but in the interaction and balancing ofthe two. Of course, this conflict is the great philosophical problem of Romanticism, particularly the alternate philosophical models created by Kant and Rousseau. If, for Kant, autonomy depends on the ability of rational agency to master inclinations, for Rousseau it depends on the expression of certain powerful inclinations, despite our rational attempts to repress them.4 Rousseau is thus the starting point for what Charles Taylor calls the “Expressivist Turn”: “This notion of an inner voice or impulse, the idea that we find the truth within us, and in particular in our feelings—these were the crucial justifying concepts of the Romantic rebellion” (368-69). The tension between these views is deep and has persisted into contemporary thought. Yet post-Kantian writers like Schiller and ultimately Hegel did not want to abandon the role ofrational judgment entirely; instead, they—like Charlotte Bronte—sought to find a model for balancing the two. In her depiction of autonomy, then, Bronte participates at a 2 OED adds that “washy” can mean feeble or lacking in force, a potentially interesting dimension of the claim—perhaps...

The humanisation of media? Social media and the reformation of communication

This article explores the extent to which social media are overcoming the limitations of mass communication and restoring the humanising elements of interpersonal communication to modern communication. It examines how the technology of social media alters the ability to communicate, the nature of what is communicated, and the extent to which social media lives up to its promise as a humanising and democratising factor. It argues that technological structures and processes of social media incorporate artificiality and lack genuine authenticity and asserts that the power arrangements and the magnitude of messages carried by social media reduce its abilities to provide quality public communications, promote elite control, and leave us vulnerable to hysteria and moral panic. Social media at best represent a slight improvement to public communication over the legacy media of the past. At worst, they are replicating legacy media as a means of social control.

A Multimethod Multilevel Study of Heritage Transmission

The objective of this research is to explore cultural heritage transmission by means of documentary films. Based on a mixed-methods approach, the results suggest that there is a predominant stereotype of cultural heritage being portrayed by the media. A distinction between staged and genuine authenticity from the stakeholder perspective is also revealed. The results further indicate a cross-level linkage between national culture, tourist cultural interest, authenticity sought, and cultural motives. By using the hierarchical linear modeling approach, this research reveals cross-level mediation and moderation from the cultural level on the individual level. This study advances the literature by understanding the critical role of national cultural origin on tourist interest and the degree of authenticity that tourists seek, as well as on their cultural heritage motives and consumption patterns. It suggests a cultural divide in heritage tourism and shows that culture can be a barrier or a facilitator of mindfulness.

Para uma crítica da razão metafórica na cultura contemporânea – bases teóricas

Apresentamos aqui o contexto teórico e as bases conceituais de uma reflexãosobre as culturas mediáticas contemporâneas. Estas são vistas como culturas híbridas situadas entre dois tipos de lógica: o logos logocêntrico aristotélico e o logos mítico pré-socrático. Inicialmente, olhamos para as incertezas de uma totalidade indivisível cujos fluxos apenas podem ser apreendidos através de uma linguagem poética, não fragmentada. Em seguida, mostramos como a razão ocidental afastou-se gradualmente da linguagem poética para tornar-se filosófica e científica. Por fim, chegamos à necessidade de buscar no nível poético da linguagem uma autenticidade genuína que faz da palavra a realidade e não apenas uma representação da realidade.Concluímos que o poético se faz presente de maneira pregnante na cultura mediática contemporânea, embora assumindo muitas vezes formas clandestinas.

Improved Authentication Accuracy by Individually Set Orders of the Fractional Fourier Transform and Effects of Damage of Fingerprint Image on Authentication Accuracy

Recently, ubiquitous personal devices with a fingerprint authentication function have been increasing. In such devices, there is almost no possibility of the authentication by impostors unless they are lost or stolen. However, for example, in the management of entering and leaving a building, not only the fingerprint authentication device but also the other authentication measures, such as an IC card, a key, etc., are generally used. In our previous studies, we have analyzed the authentication accuracy of the fingerprint authentication devices for personal possessions where other authentication measures are not needed. As a result, we made clear that the authentication accuracy in our method has extremely high compared with that in the marketed compact fingerprint authentication products, even if dirt, sebum, etc., are attached to the fingertip and there are scratches. In this study, we analyze the damage ratio of the fingerprint image where the genuine authentication can be conducted without problems, because the fingertip is easily got large cuts. Moreover, we analyze the impostor authentication of the fingerprint authentication devices for public possessions in the two cases of without and with other authentication measures. As a result, it is found that clearer impostor authentication can be achieved in the case of with other authentication measures. In addition, it is found that the damage ratio of the fingerprint image to conduct clearer genuine authentication without the image correction is less than 14.3%.

Putin's Leadership: Character and Consequences

VLADIMIR PUTIN’S LEADERSHIP WAS RIVEN WITH CONTRADICTIONS, and on the basis of these contradictions very different evaluations of his presidency are possible. The contradictions themselves became a source of Putin’s power. They allowed him to act in several different political and discursive spheres at the same time, with a degree of credibility in each, although their genuine authenticity was questioned. Arriving into the presidency in 2000 Putin declared his goal as the ‘dictatorship of law’, and indeed this principle was exercised in the attempt to overcome the legal fragmentation of the country in the federal system; but when it came to pursuing regime goals, it appeared more often than not that the system ruled by law rather than ensuring the rule of law. This is just one example, and there are many more—the revival of the party system, the development of civil society, international integration—where the declared principle was vitiated by contrary practices. The most interesting debates about Putin’s leadership are precisely those that examine whether the tensions were contradictions, and thus amenable to resolution (non-antagonistic), or whether they were antinomies (antagonistic contradictions) that could not be resolved within the framework of the system itself. The first option allowed an evolutionary transcendence of the Putinite order; whereas the second would require some sort of revolutionary rupture. Challenges and contradictions