Intelligent System to Identify Unauthorized Automobiles using Internet of Things

In cities vehicle checking and analysis is a prominent task. These tasks are accomplished by traffic policeman and include various manual works. We present a system to automate the existing task using the technologies Internet of things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The proposed system checks the details of the vehicle and isolates unauthorized automobiles, detects the overall traffic in a specific area, road damage analysis and automated fine collection and toll collection. This system is composed of a two module. Module one embedded with a unique code located in the vehicle and Module two is a scanning device in which the unique code is obtained and further processed in the receiving end using which other details of the vehicle is gathered from the cloud storage. This paper mainly focuses on multiple checking of vehicles using RFID wireless communication, OFDMA technique for numerous access and Artificial Intelligence to predict the traffic and road damage analysis. This system operates using radio frequency communication, and replaces manual task in vehicle invigilation process.

On Doing Critical Policy Analysis

In my comments on this fine collection of critical policy analyses, I want to do a number of things. I shall point to the general conceptual and social orientation and commitments that provide the foundation for such research. I will then describe a number of contributions that these papers make. And finally, I shall suggest a number of areas where additional critical investigations could make a significant contribution to our understanding. I hope that I will be forgiven if, at times, I refer to my own work. But many of the arguments I will make in this essay require much more detailed treatments, ones in which I have engaged elsewhere. Thus, these references to my own lengthier analyses may serve as a shorthand pointer to the larger discussions.

Afterword: Multiculturalism and Interculturalism – A Critical Dialogue

This fine collection has the unique merit of bringing together and setting up a stimulating dialogue between multiculturalism and interculturalism represented by uniformly impressive essays. The editors’ excellent introduction skilfully signposts the direction of the dialogue and highlights the issues lying at its heart. In recent years multiculturalism has been subjected to considerable criticism and held responsible for all sorts of ills such as social fragmentation, ghettoisation, lack of patriotism and absurdly even terrorism. The criticism is deeply misguided. It homogenises its target and ignores its internal diversity. Secondly, it gives a misleading account of multiculturalism and virtually borders on a caricature. I shall take each in turn....

The Holy and the UN Holy

The Holy and the UN Holy: Critical Essays on Qaisra Shahraz’s fiction is a fine collection of essays seems to be the outcome of literary effort to portray the contradictory images as well as comparison of dual standards with stereotypes in society. Qaisra Shahraz is the author of two novels The Holy Woman (London,Black Amber:Arcadia Books,2001) and A Pair of Jeans (discovered by Leisel Hermes in a 1988 volume Holding out : Short Stories by Women published in Manchester by Crocus .These novels are translated in to numerous languages. The Holy Woman introduced the reader to the traditions of a vibrant world of four Muslim Countries.

Efficiency, enforcement and revenue tradeoffs in participatory forest management: an example from Tanzania

Where joint forest management has been introduced into Tanzania, ‘volunteer’ patrollers take responsibility for enforcing restrictions over the harvesting of forest resources, often receiving as an incentive a share of the collected fine revenue. Using an optimal enforcement model, we explore how that share, and whether villagers have alternative sources of forest products, determines the effort patrollers put into enforcement and whether they choose to take a bribe rather than honestly reporting the illegal collection of forest resources. Without funds for paying and monitoring patrollers, policy makers face tradeoffs over illegal extraction, forest protection and revenue generation through fine collection.

Using Financial Incentives and Income Contingent Penalties to Detect and Punish Collusion and Insider Trading

Collusion and insider trading, being white collar crimes, are often characterised as being victimless crimes. The absence of identifiable victims makes the detection of these crimes particularly difficult. This paper proposes that, in order to increase the flow of information about collusion and insider trading, parties engaged in these crimes should be offered financial incentives to provide evidence against their co-conspirators. In order to provide greater certainty that rewards will be paid, and also to increase the probability that any fines are paid, it is also proposed that an income-contingent fine collection mechanism be utilised. The paper presents two case studies to illustrate how the fine collection mechanism could be used.

Visual evidence: photographic presentation of landscape and people

The University of St Andrews Library has extensive photographic collections, ranging from a fine collection of very early photography (stemming from St Andrews’ important position in the development of photography in Scotland), to modern documentary and topographical images. In order to increase access to these collections, and to assist in their preservation, the University is in the process of digitising the images, and providing them on-line, with a detailed searchable database index. In recent years, this programme has been undertaken in collaboration with the Universities of Dundee and Aberdeen, in the RSLP-funded Visual evidence project, which aims to provide a single point of access to all three collections. Much has been achieved in recent years using this type of temporary, project-oriented funding, but a period of consolidated, predictable funding is now needed in order to safeguard and further progress the advances made so far.