Beyond Traditional Transform Coding

With the availability of the Internet as a learning tool educators are faced with the challenge of whether to use this tool for course delivery and, if so, to what extent and in what manner it should be incorporated into the curriculum. This study takes an empirical look at course design and delivery factors that impact student perceptions of learning and course satisfaction. Students completed...

Many important decidability results in malware analysis are based on Turing machine models of computation. We exhibit computational models that use more realistic assumptions about machine and attacker resources. While seminal results such as [1–5] remain true for Turing machines, we show that under more realistic assumptions important tasks are decidable instead of undecidable. Specifically, w...

Today’s courses in statistical methods, for the most part, focus on the same methods that were taught 30 years ago. The actual practice of statistics has moved beyond these traditional statistical methods. Modern methods including dynamic graphics, nonlinear estimation, resampling and other simulation based inference methods are being used by many scientists and engineers. However, these method...

There are an estimated 4.1 million people who are classified as American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in combination with one or more other races. This racial group composes 1.5% of the total U.S. population. The leading causes of illness and death among American Indians are heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (accidents), diabetes, and stroke. American Indians also have a high p...

people with mental illness have been replaced by a system of mandatory reporting to the newly established National Patient Safety Agency (Department of Health, 2001a: p. 24). This reflects a radical change in the way that adverse events or ‘near misses’ in medicine are to be investigated. Drawing on lessons from engineering on improving safety in aviation and the nuclear power industry, the Dep...

conclusions reported herbal drugs might be beneficial for further studies for the management of skin aging and aging process. results skin aging begins with whole body aging process and entire body gets cold and dry in elderly. wrinkle formation is highly associated with loss of “skin natural moisture”. in the management, specific food supplements, simple massage therapy as well as herbal drugs...

conclusions the data of the study clearly indicated that the eo of s. hortensis has a strong antioxidant, antibacterial, and antifungal activity. results total phenolic content was determined by using folin-ciocalteu reagent (32.65 mg/g), which was presented as gallic acid equivalent in 1 g of sample. ic50 of eo and ascorbic acid in dpph method were respectively 277.9 and 19.34 µg. minimum inhi...