Scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) was developed to provide objective assessment of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), a birefringent tissue, by measuring the total retardation in the reflected light. The birefringence of the anterior segment of the eye, mainly the cornea, is a confounding variable to the RNFL measurement. Anterior segment birefringence varies over a wide range among individua...

With the growing number of vehicles and popularity of various services in vehicular cloud computing (VCC), message exchanging among vehicles under traffic conditions and in emergency situations is one of the most pressing demands, and has attracted significant attention. However, it is an important challenge to authenticate the legitimate sources of broadcast messages and achieve fine-grained m...

Using the DART (dialogue, access, risk, and transparency) model as a core framework of value co-creation (VCC), in context hospitality services, this study explores role VCC might have customers’ perceived (PV). The delineates two characteristics PV—perceived quality price—as sources for competitive strategy. It attempts to establish existence an effect implementation on these strategy, well in...

INTRODUCTION SCR latch-up is a parasitic phenomena that has existed in circuits fabricated using bulk silicon CMOS technologies. The latch-up mechanism, once triggered, turns on a parasitic SCR internal to CMOS circuits which essentially shorts VCC to ground. This generally destroys the CMOS IC or at the very least causes the system to malfunction. In order to make MM54HC/MM74HC high speed CMOS...

The virtual colony count (VCC) microbiological assay has been utilized for over a decade to measure the antimicrobial activity of peptides such as defensins and LL-37 against biosafety level (BSL)-1 and BSL-2 bacteria including Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, and Enterobacter aerogenes.  In addition, a modified pipetting technique was presented in a 2011 study of defen...

Most of the applications in image analysis are based on Freeman chain code. In this paper, for the first time, vertex chain code (VCC) proposed by Bribiesca is applied to improve length estimation of the 2D digitized curve. The chain code has some preferences such as stable in shifting, turning, mirroring movement of image and has normalized starting point. Due to the variety of length estimato...

In this paper, we present a research framework that tackles a promising area of e-Business largely neglected before, namely the lateral cooperation of firms from two different industries that interconnect their business processes by means of electronic integration. We refer to this kind of e-Business cooperation as ‘Value Chain Crossing’ (VCC) and explore, as an exemplary application domain, th...