Toward a Robust Analysis of Dermoscopy Images Acquired under Different Conditions

Authentication of Digital Image using Exif Metadata and Decoding Properties

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit183815 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 335-341 ◽

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Author(s):

D. P. Gangwar ◽

Anju Pathania

Keyword(s):

Digital Image ◽

Digital Images ◽

Software Tools ◽

Robust Analysis

This work presents a robust analysis of digital images to detect the modifications/ morphing/ editing signs by using the image’s exif metadata, thumbnail, camera traces, image markers, Huffman codec and Markers, Compression signatures etc. properties. The details of the whole methodology and findings are described in the present work. The main advantage of the methodology is that the whole analysis has been done by using software/tools which are easily available in open sources.

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Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415415.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Youssef

Keyword(s):

Literary History ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

The Novel ◽

Robust Analysis ◽

Specific Approach ◽

And Gender ◽

Context Specific ◽

Historical Moment

This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Egypt as fundamentally heterogeneous. Through a robust analysis of “new-consciousness” novels by authors like Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Tahir, Miral al-Tahawi, and Yusuf Zaydan, the author argues that this new consciousness does not only respond to predominant discourses of difference and practices of differentiation along the axes of race, ethno-religion, class, and gender by bringing the experiences of Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, and women minorities to the fore of Egypt’s literary imaginary, but also heralds the cacophony of voices that collectively cried for social justice from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s 2011-uprising. This study responds to the changing iconographic, semiotic, and formal features of the Egyptian novel. It fulfills the critical task of identifying an emergent novelistic genre and develops historically reflexive methodologies that interpret new-consciousness novels and their mediatory role in formalizing and articulating their historical moment. By adopting this context-specific approach to studying novelistic evolution, this book locates some of the strands that have been missing from the complex whole of Egypt’s culture and literary history.

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Responding to the Wendy Doniger Controversy

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v43i2.37 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 37-39

Author(s):

Steven Ramey

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Robust Analysis ◽

Definition Of ◽

Academic Study

The controversy over Penguin India withdrawing Wendy Doniger's book, announced in February 2014, provides an occasion to consider the problems and possibilities within the academic study of religion. As the controversy centered on representations of what both Doniger and her opponents termed Hinduism, the problems with adjudicating contested definitions of religions or the category religions becomes apparent. Rather than assuming that we can present a normative definition of any of these terms, I argue that scholars should avoid applying these contested labels themselves and recognize instead whose application of contested labels that they use. This approach facilitates a more robust analysis of the ways these terms enter the negotiation of various conflicts and the interests and assumptions behind them, making religious studies more relevant to contemporary society.

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