Biometric Security and Privacy Using Smart Identity Management and Interoperability: Validation and Vulnerabilities of Various Techniques

The central position of this article is that validation and interoperability are paramount for the effective and ethical use of biometrics. Illuminating the relevance for policymakers of the science underlying the security and privacy aspects of biometrics, this article calls for adequate and enforceable performance metrics that can be independently corroborated. Accordingly, the article considers biometrics and forensics for the dual challenges of addressing security and privacy using smart identity management. The discussion revolves around the concepts of “personally identifiable information” (PII) and interoperability with emphasis on quantitative performance analysis and validation for uncontrolled operational settings, variable demographics, and distributed and federated operations. Validation metrics includes expected rates of identification/misidentification, precision, and recall. The complementary concepts of identity and anonymity are addressed in terms of expected performance, functionality, law and ethics, forensics, and statistical learning. Biometrics encompasses appearance, behavior, and cognitive state or intent. Modes of deployment and performance evaluation for biometrics are detailed, with operational and adversarial challenges for both security and privacy described in terms of trustworthiness, vulnerabilities, functional creep, and feasibility of safeguards. The article underscores how lack of interoperability is mostly due to overfitting and tuning to well‐controlled settings, so that validation merely confirms “teaching to the test” rather than preparation for real‐world deployment. Most important for validation is reproducibility of results including full information on the experimental design used, that forensic exclusion is allowed, and that scientific methods for performance evaluation are followed. The article concludes with expected developments regarding technology use and advancements that bear on security and privacy, including data streams and video, de‐anonymization and reidentification, social media analytics and cyber security, and smart camera networks and surveillance.     

论高职学生英语自主学习能力的培养

社会生活的信息化和经济全球化,使英语的重要性日益突出。作为人们生活和工作中必不可少的一种交际工具,英语已成为高职学生必备的一门技能。但我国高职学生自主学习英语的现状令人堪忧,教师在教学过程中,应帮助学生意识到学习英语的重要性,运用一些策略和方法培养学生自主学习英语的习惯和能力,切实提高教学质量,提高学生的英语实际应用能力,为其终身学习奠定基础。     

MFB式有源双调滤波电路

针对一阶有源滤波器APF中存在的不足,提出了一种基于MFB的有源双调滤波器设计方法,避免了Q与BW之间的矛盾。详细分析了MFB带通滤波器的传递函数及电路参数选择。     

新时期高校党的组织生活改革探讨

新时期高校党的组织生活质量有待提高。改革建议是:要充分认识组织生活对加强高校党建的重要意义;要在正确的导向性、高度的民主性、务实的服务性、灵活的创新性等方面赋予高校党的组织生活鲜明的高校特色和时代特征;要从建章立制、建立科学评估体系和开展评估等方面改进和加强管理,全面提高高校党的组织生活质量。     

学习型社会与高校图书馆的发展

在构建学习型社会过程中,高校图书馆应采取相应对策,不断创新与完善高校图书馆的服务,将高校图书馆建成学习型组织,使高校图书馆成为人们进行“终身教育”的最佳场所。     

Problem-based learning and international commercial dispute resolution in the Indian Ocean

One of the primary challenges for a law lecturer is to take students beyond their own assumptions about the parameters of a subject and provide them with new opportunities for exploration and a broader vision to enhance learning. A significant feature of law as a discipline of study in higher education that has the potential to impact on the curriculum and the way in which it is taught is the academic/vocational divide. Problem-based learning (PBL) activities make classroom settings unpredictable and surprising, and learning to deal with such uncertainty prepares students for one of the most crucial aspects of professional life: the ability to make judgements in a context of uncertainty. This article analyses the integration of PBL within an LLM module on International Commercial Dispute Resolution. The logic of using PBL in this module is to ensure that the more abstract and less engaging aspects of the course are learned in relation to a close involvement with problems that are highly relevant to students’ more concrete ideas of what the course is about and what competence would mean within it. The experience of the students with the PBL activities, captured in reflective narratives and anonymous questionnaires, is also discussed.     

Reasons why law students should have access to learning law through a skills-based approach

The Legal Education and Training Review identified gaps in law students’ key skills development and this paper considers how skills training in three key areas of mooting, negotiation and client interviewing can be maximised so that law students have a sense of themselves as lawyer as well as law student from the beginning of their legal education. The research identifies numerous benefits to learning law through skills-based activities, but also discovers some possible apprehensions about participating from a student perspective. This paper draws on data taken from students who engaged in short-term optional courses in client interviewing, negotiation and/or mooting and considers the responses to a survey conducted prior to participation, a reflective survey post-completion and a focus group exercise. In total 64 students responded to the questionnaire. The research explores the expected and actual benefits of participating in the courses, discusses how these impact on students’ perceptions of their employability and the types of activities considered most valuable. The article considers how, in light of the research, experiential learning can be put to best use within the law curriculum.     

高校大学生契约式管理模式初探

随着社会主义市场经济体制的建立和初步完善,高等教育改革的深化,依法治国方略的实施,高等学校的传统管理模式受到了严峻的挑战。探索适应新形势的高校学生管理模式,是各高校极为关注并积极探索的一个新问题。建立契约式管理模式,以确保学校和学生双方权益需要为目的,界定学校和学生之间的权利义务关系是当前高校学生管理的必然选择。     

国学研究的跨文化理念与方法

国学与国学研究是两个不同层面上的问题。国学虽是近代产生的概念,但其内涵却可以涵盖中国古代的学术文化,它主要属于价值层面,是"德性的学问"。国学研究才是近代学术发展的产物,它将国学视为研究对象,主要属于知识层面,是"文献的学问"。国学研究应该暂时搁置价值争端,提倡一种"学无中西"的跨文化理念与方法,以便更好地弘扬中国传统国学。     

国学传统与现代学术

“国学”是近代以来相对于“西学”而兴起的关于中国固有学术的一个新称谓,国学的内涵虽然不断变化,但国学的基本传统却必须追溯到孔子,孔子通过整理六经,建立了国学强调社会责任的传统、追求天下大同的传统、追求善美和谐统一的传统。这些传统,是拯救现代学术的良药。