In the standardization of versatile video coding (VVC), discrete cosine transform (DCT)-2, sine (DST)-7, and DCT-8 are regarded as primary kernels. However, DST-4 DCT-4 can also be considered kernels instead using DST-7 owing to their effectiveness in smaller resolution test sequences. To implement these different block size kernels, a considerable amount memory has allocated. Moreover, consump...

BACKGROUND Rapid detection of carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacilli (GNB) is required for optimal treatment of infected patients. We developed and assessed a new disk carbapenemase test (DCT). METHODS Paper disks containing 0.3 mg of imipenem and bromothymol blue indicator were developed, and the performance of the DCT were evaluated by using 742 strains of GNB with or without carbape...

Testing pragmatic competence has always posed daunting challenges to researchers and practitioners. As a step to address the gap in pragmatic testing, this paper delineates the procedural stages of developing and validating a context-sensitive Multiple Choice Discourse Completion Test (MDCT). Following a unitary view of validity, tenable argument and empirical evidence was accumulated to suppor...

A wavelet coding method for image data on arbitrarily shaped support applicable to the object-oriented coding of moving pictures, and to the efficient representation of texture data in computer graphics is proposed. Wavelet transform of arbitrarily shaped image is obtained by applying symmetrical extension technique at region boundaries and keeping the location of wavelet coefficient. For the e...

In today’s medicine, Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems (CAD) are very used to improve the screening test accuracy of pulmonary nodules. Processing, classification, and detection techniques form basis CAD architecture. this work, we focus on classification step in a system where use Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) along with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) perform an efficient method for Combi...

The present study aimed to review the instruction of the L2 speech acts in English pragmatics in the Iranian context during the last two decades from 2000 to 2020. To this end, upon the completion of the study search, the retrieved articles were selected and analyzed based on the research domain.  The results of our synthesis from 54 studies carried out on the instruction of the speech act not ...

H.264 [1] and AVS [2] are the emerging state-of-art video coding standards, in which the block-based hybrid coding framework is employed. DCT or its approximation such as Integer Cosine Transform (ICT) is the centerpiece for signal decorrelation and energy compaction. After DCT, the transform coefficients are quantized and scanned into one-dimensional (1-D) signals, named run-level pairs. The k...

BACKGROUND Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements using Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) are influenced by central corneal thickness (CCT) whereas dynamic contour tonometry (DCT) allows for IOP measurements independent of CCT. After Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) the CCT is, compared to healthy eyes, increased. The objective of this prospective study was to...

In single utterance understanding, which does not include discourse understanding, the concept error rate (CER), or the keyword error rate, has been widely used as an evaluation measure for utterance understanding. However, the CER cannot be used for evaluating systems that understand user utterances based on previous user utterances. In this paper, we propose a method for evaluating incrementa...

A sizeable body of research into instructed pragmatics roots from the noticing hypothesis: comparing im- plicit and explicit instruction. It is only recently that other theories, including the output hypothesis, have been researched as possible explanations of interlanguage pragmatic development. Pursuing the same line of research, the present study addressed the impact of collaborative o...