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Public Horticulture at the University of Delaware and the Longwood Foundation for their funding of this program. I would like to thank my committee members: James Swasey, and Bryant Tolles, for their advice and encouragement during these past two years. Karen Curtis,

Cliff was at a classic car show in Cali-fornia when he heard the news. Tom was at a NFL game in Detroit. Tory was at a modern dance show in Minnesota. These are just three examples of men who learned about prostate cancer in unexpected, but very effective, ways. Due to the efforts of a committed few, not everyone learns about prostate health, risk factors, and early detection in their doctor’s office. Francis was in his church basement when he learned about prostate cancer risk factors. Ed was in a mall during the holiday sea-son. John was at a golf tournament near his hometown. Cliff, Tom and Tory received free or reduced-cost PSA tests at these locally sponsored outreach events. More im-portantly, all three men received PSA results that indicated a visit to their physician was an important next step. Francis encouraged his son to go with him to get baseline PSA tests together. Ed drove his homebound neighbor to the doctor to be tested. John’s wife saw the brochure he brought home from the (Continued on page 2)

i As fingerprint verification system (FVS) grows more and more mature, it becomes the most popular and reliable biometric identification technique. Fingerprint image enhancement is a quite important step in FVS. The reliability and accuracy of the minutiae extraction mainly depend on a strong enhancement algorithm. Also it dominates the computational complexity of the whole system since it involves a huge number of convolutions. Earlier, Hong and Jain proposed a fingerprint image enhancement algorithm based on the Gabor filter, which has been proved to be quite an efficient and reliable method to improve the quality of fingerprint images. There are a lot of studies on applying this algorithm on a general purpose processor. However, because it introduces too many multiplications, the processor on a mobile embedded device may seem to be unsatisfying to achieve the goal of real time. Otherwise, there is a pain in losing the accuracy when lowering the computational complexity.

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