Design and Implementation of a Software-Based Advance Electronic Voting Machine Using Automatic Registration and Fingerprint Identification

In democratic countries, free and fair elections are required to quantify the populace's sentiments to form a government of representatives. It is challenging to maneuver due to the procedural variation from country to country and complexity. As paper-based electoral systems are slow and prone to error that take hours and ample manpower to announce the results, thus a secure efficient electoral system is always preferred. In this paper, we have proposed a secure implementation of auto-registration fingerprint identification-based electronic voting systems to overcome the aspect of accuracy and transparency. We have included a novel feature of automated registration to authenticate the user through identity before the vote casting. Moreover, credentials of voters are collected in a database including fingerprints, and communication of encrypted data between server and machine with secured Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Additionally, the voter can cast their votes through a touch screen Graphical User Interface (GUI), and once the voting time end, the screen can automatically disappear by authorizing admin to print Form-45. Conclusively, the proposed system count votes automatically that is much faster and accurate than the traditional voting techniques. Moreover, the results will be available to the general public in 1-2 hours which ensures fair elections.

The Vernacular Alternatives Composed during the Age of Revolutions

Irish-language vernacular verse history proved adaptable throughout the eighteenth century to take account both of new reverses, and of opportunities presented by revolutionary developments in North America, in France, and in Ireland. The oral and the written records were interlinked because manuscript copyists aided memory. Themes from the Irish oral tradition also resurfaced in English-language print form or in political speeches by Daniel O’Connell. Similarly in the Protestant experience narratives composed in the seventeenth century by such as Temple entered into Protestant vernacular culture because they were regularly regurgitated in sermons. When Musgrave composed a Protestant narrative of the 1798 rebellion he could therefore allude to Catholic proclivity to rebel knowing that this was a trope in Protestant oral culture. Musgrave could also dovetail the occurrences of 1798 with Temple’s narrative on 1641 and thus make it comprehensible for his audience.

Implementing Controlled Digital Lending with Google Drive and Apps Script

The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 near the beginning of 2020 has significantly interrupted the daily operation of a wide range of academic institutions worldwide. As a result, libraries faced a challenge of providing their patrons access to physical collections while the campuses may remain closed. Discussions on the implementation of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) among libraries have been trending ever since. In theory, CDL enables libraries to digitize a physical item from their collections and loan the access-restricted file to one user at a time based on the “owned to loaned” ratio in the library’s collections, for a limited time. Despite all the discussions and enthusiasm about CDL, there is, however, still a lack of technical infrastructure to support individual libraries to manage their self-hosted collections. With COVID-19 still very much a presence in our lives, many libraries are more than eager to figure out the best approach to circulating materials that only exist in print form to their users in a secure and legitimate way. This article describes the author's temporary but creative implementation of CDL amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We managed to work out a technical solution in a very short time, to lend out digital versions of library materials to users when the library is physically inaccessible to them. By collaborating with our campus IT, a Google Spreadsheet with Google Apps Scripts was developed to allow a team of Access Services Staff to do hourly loans, which is a desired function for our reserve collection. Further, when the access to a file expires, staff will be notified via email. We hope our experience can be useful for those libraries that are interested in lending their physical materials using CDL and are in urgent need for an applicable solution without a cost.

American family slideshows : 1952 - 1967

Vernacular photography has been a popular topic of research within the platforms of the history of photography and sociological studies and, in its print form, has increasingly seen its value rise in the marketplace. However, the family slideshow has been largely excluded from these various sites of attention. This thesis explores the family slideshow as a cultural product of mid-twentieth-century America. The slideshow is analysed in terms of how it was presented to and consumed by families in the 1950s and 1960s. The main section of this thesis provides an analysis of a case study carried out regarding the slideshow. The case study collected oral histories from four individuals on their experiences with producing and viewing slideshows in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis provides qualitative research on the consumption, production and viewing of the slideshow as a popular medium for family snapshots.

American family slideshows : 1952 - 1967

Vernacular photography has been a popular topic of research within the platforms of the history of photography and sociological studies and, in its print form, has increasingly seen its value rise in the marketplace. However, the family slideshow has been largely excluded from these various sites of attention. This thesis explores the family slideshow as a cultural product of mid-twentieth-century America. The slideshow is analysed in terms of how it was presented to and consumed by families in the 1950s and 1960s. The main section of this thesis provides an analysis of a case study carried out regarding the slideshow. The case study collected oral histories from four individuals on their experiences with producing and viewing slideshows in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis provides qualitative research on the consumption, production and viewing of the slideshow as a popular medium for family snapshots.

Matters of Life and Death: Biographies at the Beginning of Independent Mexico, 1820s

Biographies are a sort of resurrection. They reanimate a life after death to draw collective meaning from individual sacrifice and offer a model of salvation for others to follow. Although still a relatively new genre, the few full-length biographies of Mexico’s independence-era leaders that were written during the 1820s contributed significantly to the process of identifying aspirational national virtues by embodying them in the stories of individual exemplary lives. Biographies of heroes began to appear from the earliest years of Mexico’s national life, as political independence became a settled reality and attention started to turn to the daunting tasks of giving it an institutional form. In the burgeoning nineteenth century, Romantic ideals animated the actions soldiers and statesmen alike: dreams of nationhood and belonging, praise for heroic individuals who embodied the spirit of their age, a taste for tragic adventure and self-sacrifice for a greater cause. These biographies appeared at the beginning, stories of Mexicans whose exemplary lives transcended their deaths and went on to achieve immortality in print form.

Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Self-archiving offers opportunities for authors to more broadly disseminate their work—both in pre-print form before its submission to a journal and in post-print form after its acceptance and publication in a journal. This editorial provides authors with guidance in navigating the rapidly changing options for self-archiving and affirms that the Journal of the Medical Library Association encourages authors to self-archive their work to boost its reach and impact.

AN OVERVIEW ON DIGITAL LIBRARY

Today, libraries are much more than storehouses for books, journals, and newspapers, in print form. Present day libraries apart from print resources, acquire e-resources, audio/visual material, multimedia material and other resources depending upon the demands from the users. This change is evident in all kinds of libraries. However, one thing that has not changed is the universe of information or knowledge; it is forever expanding and is continuing to do so at ever increasing speeds. One of the best examples of a digital library is, Digital Library of India (DLI).

Papal Orders for Investigation on Matrimonial Dispensation as Historical and Anthropological Sources

Papal Encyclicals to local bishops regarding matrimonial dispensation have not been used so far as historiographic and anthropological sources. In this paper, an attempt was made to verify their usability in that sense. Two Encyclicals from the Catholic Fond of the Birta Archives were separated and it was examined, through comparative analysis, to what extent these Encyclicals were useful for checking historical data about on which there are doubts, and to what extent they can offer new, not yet known and important information. Thereby of course, all limitations of such data and its adequate contextualization are taken into account. These are the Encyclicals in which the Pope urges local bishops to check the allegations in the request of the Naples nobles who want to marry, even though they are close relatives. Since other original documents on the studied topic are currently unavailable, and the material has not been sorted, integrated and published in the print form, the scope of the Papal Encyclicals as sources was checked by comparing it with publicly available digitized databases and internet presentations and encyclopedias.

Al-Ḥāʾik’s Notebook, Part I

By far the most important manuscript anthology of the texts of the Andalusian music in Morocco (al-āla), Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik has undergone a lengthy process of evolution since its apparent first iteration (manuscript #144 at al-Khizāna l-Dāwūdiyya in Tetouan, dated 1202 AH). This article presents an annotated listing of all known songbooks relating to al-āla, whether in manuscript or print form, as reference material for scholarship and raw data for later articles in a series that explores the complex history of the Kunnāsh. Annotations include publication information for print anthologies, material descriptions of manuscripts, and occasional observations about notable features, contents, etc.