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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Academic Word List (AWL) family

Academic Word List from abstract paper


An Efficient User Verification System Using Angle-Based Mouse Movement Biometrics

Biometric authentication verifies a user based on its inherent, unique characteristics - who you are. In addition to physiological biometrics, behavioral biometrics has proven very useful in authenticating a user. Mouse dynamics, with their unique patterns of mouse movements, is one such behavioral biometric. In this article, we present a user verification system using mouse dynamics, which is transparent to users and can be naturally applied for continuous reauthentication. The key feature of our system lies in using much more fine-grained (point-by-point) angle-based metrics of mouse movements for user verification. These new metrics are relatively unique from person to person and independent of a computing platform. Moreover, we utilize support vector machines (SVMs) for quick and accurate classification. Our technique is robust across different operating platforms, and no specialized hardware is required. The efficacy of our approach is validated through a series of experiments, which are based on three sets of user mouse movement data collected in controllable environments and in the field. Our experimental results show that the proposed system can verify a user in an accurate and timely manner, with minor induced system overhead.

Source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046725

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Day #2 - Talking about Ideas

Book: Academic Vocabulary in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press
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Subject: Talking about Ideas (page 70-71)

Exercises:

Monday, September 12, 2016

Day #1 - Academic Vocabulary in Use

Book: Academic Vocabulary in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press
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Subject: Cause and effect (page 68-69)

From the book, I have learned that cause and effect are often used in academic writing especially to describe the relationship between event, object, variables, states or affairs. Its often used as conjunction like because, preposition like due to or because of, and adverb like therefore and consequently

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