... Illustration of surface openness Therefore, the local maxima and minima points are determined by the slope ofthe center andthe surrounding points, as shown in Figure The openness is then defined by the ... process of two-dimensional EMD is interactive, and involves three main steps: (1) determining the extreme points; (2) interpolating the extreme points forthe mean envelope; and (3) subtracting the ... ofthe sifting process is shown below Step Determine the local maxima and minima ofthe current input signal h(i, j)(t), where i is the number ofthe IMF and j is the number of iteration In the...
... bits The results are plotted in Figures andforthe DCT andthe DWT domains, respectively As can be seen, for images form DB2 and DB3, the BER is lower forthe proposed technique than that forthe ... segmentation process has no in uence on the performance ofthe decoding process andthe watermark remains unaltered Forthe conventional technique, the BER increases significantly andthe segmentation process ... watermark decoding The watermark is embedded inthe well-known transform domains, namely, the DCT andthe DWT The optimum decoder is based on the ML scheme andthe coefficients ofthe two domains are...
... regions of all binarized images The advantage of using multiple binarizations is to consider different intensity levels of image regions, and to thereby integrate the intensity information inthe ... training and test sets If the Bootstrap procedure may be the best way forthe classification of small Y Caulier and S Bourennane Table 1: Values ofthe optimal and “nonoptimal” sets a1 and a2 for ... described inthe literature: the filter and wrapper techniques [15, 36, 43, 44] The former are independent ofthe classification process and consist of filtering out the irrelevant data using the feature...
... to the context in which the multiple meaning words occur inthe same article For instance, if the article being translated deals with a mathematical topic, then the single meaning words occurring ... branches of science were also ignored, since they provide no clue to the context Only the remaining words and their occurrences were noted inthe analysis The entire area of science and engineering ... meaning words Details ofthe Figure of Merit TechniqueThe figure of merit technique uses the probability measures ofthe single meaning words inan article (or sentence) to obtain a measure of...
... Catalysis Material, Institute of Chemical Engineering for their guidance, and their helps in my work I want to thank Prof Isabel and all staff in Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, ... Laboratory ofthe Petrochemical Refinering and Catalytic Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) and Department of Inorganic and Physical ... establish kinetic laws for hydrocarbon oxidation first of all due to the high endothermicity of this reaction resulting in sinstering ofthe catalyst, in surface changes, andinthe intensification of...
... is presented (in bold and boxed) andthe other amino acids found at each position are aligned vertically above the consensus amino acid The sequences ofthe coding strand and complementary strand ... multiple representatives of homologous viral proteins can be of importance for understanding theprotein structure and function and provided insight into virus-host relationships List of Abbreviations ... position inthe glycine, block position 10 in "TGV" andthe gain ofthe degenerate codon positions inthe valine, block position in "VYGA" The subsequent cloning and sequence analysis of new herpesvirus...
... have an irregular and random structure This illumination technique is therefore totally adequate forthe visual enhancement and discrimination of textural and structural defective parts of cylindrical ... when the direction ofthe line-scan sen− → sor (C) and Πscan are perpendicular to V and when the optical axis ofthe sensor passes through the central axis ofthe cylindrical object An important ... illumination (L), andthe high-reflective cylindrical surface (S) The object is moving with a constant speed V along the xw axis, the scanning plane Πscan has an angle αscan with the Πxw ,yw plane The elementary...
... LIA and anti-chromatin by ALBIA, andthe lowest prevalence was found for Jo1 by LIA andfor Jo-1 and SS-B by ALBIA Anti-Rib-P antibodies were presentin 33.3% ofthe dsDNA-negative sera andin ... in data analysis andthe preparation ofthe manuscript TL helped inthe evaluation of data JTN performed Rib-P assays and contributed to the data analysis All authors read and approved the final ... detection, the difference inthe criteria used to clinically define and identify various disease features, the demographics and/ or the make-up ofthe patient cohorts, andthe analysis of results...
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... subjects and workers in survey, obtaining appropriate informed consent, confidentiality of information collected inthe survey, the reporting of findings ofthe health examination to the participant, ... inthe US and Europe, those standards are under continued review as science and practice evolve The globalization of standards creates a challenge for those standards andfor feedback onto standards ... determined, in part, by the nature ofthe parameter andthe clinical meaning (significance) ofthe parameter which have universal implication The social meaning ofthe disease or condition, the...
... participants had the use ofthe PGA explained to them using the protocol of Fischer [33], and also the location ofthe pain Following the explanation, the point of maximum tenderness was determined and marked ... Participants were asked to return days later for assessment ofthe pain level using the VAS and to determine the status ofthe four cardinal signs of a trigger point using the PGA Statistical Analysis ... the sensitivity of pain or pressure [4] Algometer instrumentation can include manual and electric models The use of any experimental instrument including the PGA must be tested for validity and...
... stored with the annotation record deposited research Coordinately with gene structure andprotein coding region designation and edits, themRNAandprotein sequence fields are updated (3 andin Figure ... Exon Origins allows for complete re-creation ofthe gene structure annotation andfor analysis of manual annotation procedures that could aid in future manual annotation efforts and techniques ... pasting a coordinate structure into themRNA structure field (6 in Figure 2a) The format for specifying anmRNA structure follows the conventional notation of designating exons by start and end...
... conduction band and valence band The transition ofan electron from the lowest-energy state inthe conduction band to the highest-energy state inthe valence band does not require any change in 11 ... has the same value inthe valence andthe conduction band, whereas inan indirect gap, they are different Forthe direct band semiconductors, the momentum of electrons and holes is the same in ... magnitude ofthe band gap andthe absolute position ofthe conduction and valence band are very important parameters for a photocatalyst The band gap positions on an energy scale determine the oxidation...
... What are the syntactic features of NSs in E and V? What are the uses of NSs in E and V? What are the similarities and differences of NSs in E and V in terms ofthe syntactic features andthe uses? ... (2) and (3) are ill-formed and certainly unacceptable in English whereas sentences (4), (5) and (6) are well-formed and quite natural in Vietnamese The syntactic errors in (1), (2) and (3) are the ... strengthened and weaken negatives, indirect and incomplete negation, special and nexal negation, the meaning of negation Tottie (1991) proposes a classification ofthe uses of negatives in both oral and...
... based upon the patient remaining on therapy and achieving either low disease activity (DAS28 1.2 unit improvement in their DAS28 The PPV ofthe administrative data -based ... only to capture the DAS28, the CDAI and other clinical characteristics measured at the baseline and outcome VARA visits; all other data used forthe analysis were from the administrative claims ... effectiveness of RA medications in administrative claims and pharmacy data While clinical disease activity measures remain the gold standard for assessing effectiveness in RA, the many large administrative...
... first left brother ofthe parent 0.2505 1.5603 0.6145 5.2 The analysis to the influence ofthe structural relation andthe structural distance to the predictive information quantities ofthe history ... to find out what influence the exact headword information, the heuristic information of headword and modifier, andthe physical position information have respectively to the predictive information ... predictive information quantity ofthe first word andthe second word inthe objective word sequence is larger than that ofthe headword ofthe parent node which has the largest predictive information...