AL-MANSOUR JOURNAL

This paper is an attempt to address the biometric security issue and
improve the system accuracy through introducing a design for multimodal
biometric verification system using multiple traits (Iris, fingerprint) and
adding another phase called liveness detection to the phases of
multimodal system the purpose of this phase is to protect the multimodal
biometric systems against spoofing attacks. The system is tested in two
levels, unimodal level and multimodal level (fusion level). in unimodal
level two tests have been performed, one for iris verification phase
performed on two types of database MMU DB (Multi Media University
database) for 180 samples and CASIA DB (Chinese Academy of
Sciences database) for 90 samples. and gave accuracy (99.44%) with
FAR (False Acceptance Rate) of (0.0277) and FRR (False Reject Rate)
(0.0055) for MMU DB, and accuracy (97.77%) with FAR of (0.0333) and
FRR (0.0222) for CASIA DB, and other for fingerprint verification phase
performed on database collected from two types of database for 60
samples and gives accuracy of 95% with FAR of 0.1% and FRR of
0.05%.
In multimodal level the system is tested on database composed of 60
samples for iris images and 60 samples for fingerprint images and gives
an overall accuracy of 100% with FRR of 0%, and FAR of 0.0166%.

In this paper, bilateral filter and seam carving is implemented to get an image that is retargeted to a new size and has a clear appearance. Bilateral filter is used to enhance images by smoothing texture and preserving edges. The implemented seam carving for content aware image resizing gives better results in resizing images than the standard scaling and cropping techniques. Also, six types of edge detection filters are used in this paper to preserve the energy of image objects, and evaluation for these filters is done to find the best energy preserver among those six types.

The crime of fraud through witchcraft and sorcery has been quite important not only in the legal area but also in life, in general. Because the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in the community has increased and because there is no clear article in the Iraqi legislation condemning these acts which are done for the sake of getting money, this state has terribly affected both the individual and the community (including rulers, kings and presidents).many have lost their peace of mind as a result of listening to these tricky persons.
In reality, people have embarked on these practices to solve their problems and to get some comfort but that has deplorably made them more miserable. Those practicing this kind of crime have different names such as fortune- tellers, astrologers, magicians and horoscope reader.
Jurists and legislators differ in looking at these evil acts. Some have described them as special crimes. Still others have considered them as crimes of fraud. These things constitute, in fact, some difficulty concerning regulations, censorship and adoption, a thing which has required that these practices should be treated through legislations.
The researcher, accordingly, has discussed tow topics in the paper. The first topic surveys the historical and legal development of the crime of fraud by witchcraft and sorcery. The second one deals with the basic elements of the crime of fraud by witchcraft, suggesting its characteristics. The research ends by providing a conclusion.

The panoramic scene generation is a research active area. The importance of panorama generation is increasing the view angle. Using video to generate the panoramic video, a single camera cannot meet the objective to generate the panoramic view in suitable angle. To solve this problem, two or more video sequences are required to produce the panoramic video. This will give a scene wider than that with a single camera. When the number of cameras is increased, the panoramic video view angle will increase.
The goal of this research is to generate a new form of video called panoramic video using two or more videos. The panoramic video is generated using two proposed methods. First, the system of panoramic generation depends on the capturing of samples by using normal cameras and the operation will be done through capturing samples for fixed place at the same time. Secondly, the estimation of motion between sample transformation considers on the challenge in the field which depends on the feature-based method. Feature- based method must be strong enough to extract the fixed features in different circumstances like: distortion, light change, noise and blurring by different transformations (scaling, rotation, translation... etc.) and also the use of the shape representation (region - based method) to resolve the problem of overlapping region. The experimental results show that the system can generate panoramic video from two cameras in different places.

There is no doubt that the phenomena of corruption has become one of the issues that imposes itself on the local and international level, as it has become a key impediment to community development in various fields. If the traditional concept of crime is usually committed by poor people, disadvantaged individuals, or outlaws groups, the reality today, in the age of globalization, indicates that the crime can be committed by people in authority and those affiliating to them, and political and commercial governing elites. This thing has allowed corruption to be considered criminality of authority wherever and whenever the positions of authority or state bodies and organizations are exploited to achieve personal interest instead of performing its basic role in the interest of general good. For this. We find that the world Bank has focused on the concept of good government and the criminal policy of the following fundamental ideas.
First : equality of all citizens in front of the law without partiality.
Second: Having equal opportunities of getting benefits from public services.
Third : The necessity of holding those who have been selected to rule on behalf of the people accountable for their failures.
Hence, we are committed to present the problem of this paper to demonstrate the effectiveness of the criminal and political efficacy pursued by the Iraqi legislature in this kind of crimes? We also like to see if the Penal Code has become incapable of facing situations in the light of changes occurring concerning these kind of criminal patterns related to corruption.

The accuracy of a Palmprint recognition system is highly depending on the extracted features from Palmprint image. The radial harmonic Fourier moments have attractive characteristics such as rotation invariant, high resistance against image noise, and less redundancy, therefore, they have the capability to provide distinct features about Palmprint image. In this work a Palmprint recognition method was proposed based on radial harmonic Fourier moments as a feature extraction descriptor to provide distinct and rotation invariant features about Palmprint images. The analysis of the results of the extensive experiments conducted over two standard Palmprint databases refers that the proposed method is rotation invariant and achieves high recognition rate even in presence of image noise. Furthermore, the proposed method outperforms other Palmprint recognition methods which utilized other orthogonal rotation invariant moments such as pseudo Zernike moments and Zernike moments.

This research aims to determine the nature of the strategic flexibility relationship and its impact on the rationalization of strategic decisions in business organization. Strategic flexibility forms the basic engine for all the changes that the organizations can do to adapt to the environment in which it operates. Besides, the rationalization of the strategic decisions taken by senior management helps the organization to stay and continue to work through the exploitation of the opportunities and to avoid threats posed by the surrounding environment. The problem of the research has indicated that there is a clear lack of employment of strategic flexibility to rationalize the strategic decisions of the organization surveyed. The General Company for Vegetable Oils has selected as a field of application. The research sample is a simple random one, consisting of 76 members of the human resources in the company already mentioned . a questionnaire has been prepared on the basis of a number of ready measures after being subjected to tests of validity and reliability. The ready- made statistical program (SPSS) is used in the introduction and analysis of the research date. Among the statistical tools used in the analysis are: “the percentage of recurrence, the arithmetic means standard deviation, coefficient of variation, the link of the Spearman coefficient and simple linear regression” . The statistical tools have had results, most of which, has an association with and the impact of moral significance for strategic flexibility in the rationalization of strategic decisions. Accordingly, the major and minor assumptions of the research have been accepted. The research has recommended the need of the surveyed organization to identity the most important strategic flexibility aspects which could be invested in the rationalization of its strategy.

The Security of information on web has turn into a former thing. In spite of the fact that any message is scrambled utilizing a stronger cryptography method, it can't evade the suspicion of interloper. This paper proposes a methodology in such way that, identity information (ID) is encoded utilizing transposition cipher algorithm and afterward this ciphertext is hiding in person image utilizing LSB method. Also in this paper, a ciphertext and biometric key generation algorithm are combined using an effective algorithm to protect the ID information. The purpose of proposed algorithm is to prevent unauthorized persons from viewing or modifying the data and has resistance to Brute-force attack. The obvious attributes of the individual picture prior and then afterward disguise remained just about the same. This algorithm can provide better security to ID card information. The algorithm has been executed utilizing Matlab.

The research examines whether there is a unified definition towards terrorism that can be capable to identify exactly what terrorism is, and reflect such definition towards the Iraqi anti-terrorism law enacted in 2005. The research has explored that whether the Iraqi legislator has succeeded in defining terrorism in the new enacted legislation. The research has concluded that the problem exists in the global and national conflict towards the accurate definition towards the acts of terrorism, which has caused the change of terrorism meaning in various history stages, such result has generated the impossibility to stand on one definition. Therefore the Iraqi legislator has followed the paths that have been implemented in other legislative experiences all over the world in defining terrorism.
The difficulty in finding a unified definition to terrorism has emerged a difficulty in finding an accurate legal criterion, to solve such problem and in order to remedy such lack of legal criterion the research has concluded that a more developed process toward observing the process of the judicial system involved in terrorism cases must be applied, in addition the employment of new technologies that can be effective in exposing the accurate evidence and that the accused has definitely has committed such salvage crimes is essential.

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1920), English poet and novelist has been regarded by many as one of the greatest figures in English literature. He is well- known for the readers and students of literature by his masterpieces Far from the Maddingrowd (1874), The Return of the Native(1878) , Jude the Obscure ( 1895) and other novels.
The conflict between Man and the inevitable fate is a recurrent and favorite theme in his fiction. This study is an attempt to explore this theme in Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) through a profound analysis of the central character in the novel: Michael Henchard and some other characters and circumstances around him. The poor young man Henchard sells , drunkenly, his wife and little daughter in a village fair and although he shows a real repentance and transfers to an honest man and becomes powerful and wealthy, his old sin resurfaces to torture him and cause his downfall in an obvious significance that the guilty Man cannot escape the judgment of fate.

The study is concerned with effect of thermal stresses on chimneys, where the thermal loads considerate are based on actual field measurements of temperature variation in Al-Dora chimney- Baghdad.These temperature variations are divided into two parts:
1- Uniform heating.
2- Temperature gradient across the thickness of chimney shell due to flue gases.
Thermal analyses were carried out using ACI-307-08 provisions, and STAAD.Pro-V8i using (3D – plate element).
Comparison studies in thermal analyses were made on four chimneys similar in dimensions, but different in materials, (Reinforced Concrete, Steel, Stainless Steel, and Aluminum). It was found that the metal chimneys give higher results in radial and vertical displacements, while higher results in the bending moments and membrane stresses were found in the reinforced Concrete chimney.
Thermal analyses were carried out to study the effect of chimney shell thickness. It was found that the reactions at the base of the chimney are proportional to the thickness of the shell, but the radial and vertical displacements are inversely proportional with the thickness of the shell, While the effect of changing thickness on the bending moments and membrane stresses was found to be small which indicates that increasing the thickness of shell chimney doesn’t lead to smaller thermal stresses. Finally, it was found that the Uniform heating component is more effective on the bending moments, membrane stresses and vertical displacements, while the rotations were not affected much by thermal loads. Winter time is found to be more critical since it gives higher temperatures gradient.