The world has been experiencing a mind-blowing expansion of blockchain technology since it was first introduced as an emerging means cryptocurrency called bitcoin. Currently, regarded pervasive frame reference across almost all research domains, ranging from virtual cash to agriculture or even supply-chain the Internet Things. ability have self-administering register with legitimate immutabilit...

Wavelet-based encoding is now emerging as an efficient way to encode video for streaming over the Internet and for wireless applications. Wavelet-based video coding has been recently added to the JPEG-2000 video standards. However, due to the lack of long wavelet encoded video streams, most research has so far been based on short video traces. This thesis paper presents a public library of trac...

We conducted the first quantitative assessment of coral breakage along a gradient of diving activities in Hong Kong, the most densely populated city in southern China. A survey of six 1 × 25 m transects at seven sites revealed a total of 81 broken corals, among which 44% were branching, 44% plate-like and 12% massive. There were 3-19 broken colonies per site. At most study sites, the percentage...

We propose a new algebraic deformation of N = 4 SYM via decomposition of spinor and scalar fields in vector supermultiplet. This decomposition generates degrees of freedom of usual quarks and leptons and the deformation model is a low energy effective model. We show that supersymmetry is broken in certain limit and the deformation model reduces to a SM-like model, or a QCD-like model. Meanwhile...