... In order to improve the performance ofthe shuffling method, GA is used to select a proper pair of (x0 , μ) In our scheme, we choose to improve quality ofthe stego image in the sense of PSNR and ... message bits into the cover image using IA-LSB steganography, then compute PSNR between the cover image and the stego image, which is the fitness function of GA In the following operations, the individual ... use the logistic map for shuffling and use GA to find proper parameters for the logistic map Denote the message with length L as M = {m0 , m1 , , mL−1 } The process of using the logistic map to...
... methods The authors also introduce the idea of 2D Fourier Phase Code (FPC) to eliminate the need for the storage ofthe whole iris database in the system, addressing the greatest drawback of correlation-based ... Since the purpose is to robustly reveal the similarity of two iris patterns and regarding tothe fact that these fluctuations are susceptible tothe image quality, the signature is smoothed to achieve ... compare the performance ofthe proposed approach with other state-ofthe-art methods Nevertheless, according to our results, we believe that our method’s performance is one ofthe best for the UBIRIS...
... dated the colonization of Europe tothe Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary around 4.6 to 1.6 million years ago (MYA), far before the onset of Pleistocene ice age However, during the late Pleistocene ... BigDye Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems) according tothe manufacturer’s recommendations The 3’end ofthe 595 bp fragment ofthe mtDNA CR with the 74 bp of flanking tRNA ... agreement with the ancestral character ofthe grayling populations from a Danubian refugium in relation tothe northern populations [3,5] The intermediate position ofthe Da29 haplotype on the network...
... 1% agarose gel The amount of 0.4 g of agarose diluted into 40 ml of 1X TBE was boiled and poured into the gel tray of x 10 cm The gel was run at 60 V for 35 minutes The gel was then stained with ... parental care to its offspring, neither Mating system ofthe climbing perch is either polygamy or promiscuity Sexual dimorphism in the climbing perch was not found The eggs ofthe climbing perch ... separation ofthe stock Thestudy also showed the correlation ofthe result on the local, regional and supra-regional levels In addition, Varela (2007) with his assistants applied ISSR to assess...
... numbers of new cancers in the Republic of Ireland to around 3,601 in 2025, compared tothe 2,336 reported for 2005 The 54% increase is largely a consequence ofthe expected growth and aging ofthe ... used to fit the model Forecasts using the latest TAR for the Czech Republic of 0.35 and the latest TFR of 1.23 gave an overall increase in the rate ofcancerof 39.2%, or a yearly increase of 1.33% ... thanks are due tothe charities LIFE and The Medical Education Trust, which funded the research, tothe national statistical offices and cancer registries, which provided the data, and tothe statisticians...
... artificial miRNA sequences into the targeting vectors The terminal regions ofthe arms ofthe miR155 (A) and miR30 (B) vectors are shaded, and their stems designed to be replaced by artificial ... miRNA-expressing cassettes into a chimeric intron composed ofthe 5¢ donor site from the first intron ofthe human b-globin gene and the branch and 3¢ acceptor site from the intron of an immunoglobulin ... pre-miRNAs tothe cytoplasm, where they are further processed to siRNA However, this process simultaneously blocks the translation ofthe enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) marker, because the...
... proportional to 1/2 According tothe kinetic definition of quantum yield, it is equal tothe ratio ofthe reaction rate in molecules per second tothe efficient photonic flux in photons per second Theoretically, ... confirms the photo-induced nature ofthe activation ofthe catalytic process, with the participation of photo-induced electrical charges tothe reaction mechanism However, above a certain point, the ... particles to enter, thereby causing cell damage and death in the presence of water [4] One ofthe largest fields of interest and growth in the upcoming century is that of photocatalysis From October...
... combination of X and U as E = (1 − a) X + aU)T < a < Use an N × vector r (the PageRank vector) to store the importance scores ofthe N contacts, and set the initial values of its elements to be 1/N Then ... in the training set, the LSPR subvector of this message was assigned tothe mean of LSPR vectors by default The concatenation of all these subvectors yields a synthetic vector per email message ... and computing the MAE on the pool The other way, macro-averaged MAE, is to compute the MAE on the test instances of each user and then take the average ofthe per-user MAE values The former gives...
... frequency ofthe unperturbed quartz resonator, Fq the frequency constant ofthe crystal (Fq ¼ f0.dq), dq the thickness, qq the mass density, and Ael the electrode size ofthe crystal resonator Equation ... modulation ofthe surface-associated shear modulus ofthe polymer layer in the polymeric structure In other words, binding of analyte to a MIP can result a larger change in the total acoustic load on the ... al ˘ For all the examples cited above, the binding capacity ofthe sensor surface is critical to maximize the sensitivity ofthe sensor for the detection of small molecules Here the synergies...
... formed between the carbonyl group ofthe ketose substrate (f6p, s7p) and the e-amino group of a lysine residue ofthe active site ofthe enzyme, leading tothe formation of either g3p or e4p ... while leaving behind the bound dihydroxyacetone (C3) The nitrogen atom ofthe Schiff base (similar tothe nitrogen atom in the thiazole ring of TK) stabilizes the dihydroxyacetone unit using resonance ... Apart from the variations in the stoichiometric model ofthe PPP discussed in this work, the other parts ofthe stoichiometric model used for fitting the fluxes of S cerevisiae were identical to those...
... enzymatic activity ofthe human scavenger [20] (B) Alignment ofthe amino acids involved in the interactions with the cap structure (m7Guo) in the hDcpSm7GpppG complex The majority of these amino acids ... a good starting point for the elucidation ofthe detailed mechanism of action on a molecular level, for thestudyof inhibition and for the design of effective inhibitors (in particular, human ... respect tothe three histidine residues ofthe catalytic HIT motif [1820] A high degree of identity observed in the HIT region of different scavengers supports the functional signicance of this...
... by the cell cytoplasm The basal pole ofthe cell faces either the pseudocoel or hypodermis whereas the apical membrane faces the excretory canal lumen An excretory duct connects the excretory ... excretory canal tothe outside surface ofthe worm The duct is formed from cuticle that is continuous with the animal’s exoskeleton A duct cell surrounds the upper two-thirds ofthe duct and a ... elegans Osmoregulatory organs in C elegans C elegans has simple ‘kidney’ that is comprised of three cells, the excretory cell, the duct cell and the pore cell [8] Destruction of any of these cells...
... easily adapted to different software platforms (Java and Oracle) and the necessities of other languages (Unicode), making the whole system portable to other platforms with minimal changes The only ... enhancing the most important features of these groupings The resulting patterns reveal the conceptual backbone ofthe text collection Russian WordNet is used for basic conceptual grouping • Automatic ... stems of words e.g "teach" would return "teaching", "taught" etc Fuzzy match can be used if you are not sure ofthe spelling of a word A search can be done to find words which are close to each other...
... used to sandwich the ring-shaped specimen A Kapton film and a diamond window were used in place ofthe quartz optical windows on the top and bottom steel plates to support the specimen The top ... addition tothe wide spectrum of properties present in the above polymers, toughness enhancement is a particular aim of many ofthe discussed modifications In the different chapters the usual routes of ... The appearance of {200} truncating faces has been interpreted in terms ofthe different fold surface free energies corresponding tothe altered pattern of folding in the two types of sector The...
... operator tothe rooms of a house or office, for example In the second one, the operator uses the BCI to An operator is considered capable of having full control ofthe BCI if he succeeds in the ... better quality The objective is to map the data corresponding tothe multi-channel neural spikes of a monkey tothe 3D positions of its arm positions The predicted position ofthe hand ofthe monkey ... are due tothe use of a non-commercial EMG amplifier In addition, in [12] it is used a combination ofthe movements ofthe muscles ofthe shoulder and the neck to command the wheelchair In the several...
... the results ofthe UMTS link offer the worse results, due tothe delay ofthe operator’s network and the bandwidth limited by the radio coverage and the available resources in the cell The 802.11b ... by using the control buttons on the left side ofthe web page The replay speed can be adjusted and a step-by-step mode has been implemented On the map, the positions and movements ofthe vehicles ... looking at the width and color ofthe link lines among vehicles The Graphic Generator module gives another view ofthe network performance It processes both the XML statistics and packet traces to generate...
... consists of three parts (i) The number of interferers, U − The more users the system supports, the higher the mutual interference (ii) The transmit power ofthe other active users, P/U As the transmit ... index The length of each symbol The Doppler frequency The channel in (2) is widely used to model the timevarying channel For example, it is used to investigate the impact of feedback delay on the ... for vectors (x) E[·] is the expectation operator The conjugate transpose of a matrix X (vecto x) is X∗ (x∗ ) Similarly, X† denotes the pseudo-inverse, x denotes the normalized vector of x, i.e...
... The growth of nanowires/nanotubes initiates from the bottom portion ofthe alumina template The incomplete filling of Ni may be due tothe difference in the growth rate between Ni and Co, as their ... NTs of very high aspect ratio [2] This is due tothe fact that the shape anisotropy ofthe samples mentioned in the earlier report is much higher (aspect ratio of Co NTs is *330) than that ofthe ... abundantly clear from the TEM image (Fig 2d) It is to be noted that from the TEM image, some portion ofthe Co NTs remain unfilled It can also be seen from the top portion ofthe FESEM image (Fig...
... independent ofthe distance ofthe target, will be used for a deeper characterization ofthe semantic class ofthe target This distribution represents an additional feature tothe classification ofthe ... cluster the input features into classes representative ofthe possible target semantic classes At the end ofthe training, each network is able to classify the values ofthe specific feature set The ... output ofthe clustering level is an m-dimensional vector consisting ofthe concatenation ofthe m SOMs outputs (in our case, m = 3) This vector represents the input ofthe second level The recognition...