The present paper proposes a new concept of image processing method based on vector representation for visual inspection test. The method was applied to detect defects and extract their profiles from digital 2D image of welded rough surface of the structures aiming at the development of automated visual inspection system. The potential availability of the new technique based on vector represent...

information retrieval can be achieved through computerized processes by generating a list of relevant responses to a query. the document processor, matching function and query analyzer are the main components of an information retrieval system. document retrieval system is fundamentally based on: boolean, vector-space, probabilistic, and language models. in this paper, a new methodology for mat...

During the last decade, an increasing number of papers have described the use of various genera of bacteria, including E. coli and S. typhimurium, in the treatment of cancer. This is primarily due to the facts that not only are these bacteria capable of accumulating in the tumor mass, but they can also be engineered to deliver specific therapeutic proteins directly to the tumor site. However, a...

Our understanding of staphylococcal pathogenesis depends on reliable genetic tools for gene expression analysis and tracing of bacteria. Here, we have developed and evaluated a series of novel versatile Escherichia coli-staphylococcal shuttle vectors based on PCR-generated interchangeable cassettes. Advantages of our module system include the use of (i) staphylococcal low-copy-number, high-copy...

We have constructed and evaluated the utility of a helper-dependent virus vector system that is derived from Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV). This vector is based on the herpes simplex virus (HSV) amplicon system and contains the HCMV orthologs of the two cis-acting functions required for replication and packaging of HSV genomes, the complex HCMV viral DNA replication origin (oriLyt), and the clea...

Recent years have witnessed the increase in demand for fast, efficient, and high quality multimedia communication applications over the wired and wireless networks. The constraint in bandwidth has paved the way for researchers to embark their efforts in finding efficient compression techniques for image and video. The demand for high quality of data communication has open up the research area i...

Logistic systems which are inherently distributed, in general can be classified as complex systems. Survivability of these systems under varying environment conditions is of paramount importance. Different environmental conditions in which the logistic system resides are translated into several stresses. These in turn will manifest as internal stresses. Logistic systems can be modeled as a coll...

This paper presents an effective method for speaker identification system. Based on the wavelet transform, the input speech signal is decomposed into several frequency bands, and then the linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCC) of each band are calculated. Furthermore, the cepstral mean normalization technique is applied to all computed features in order to provide similar parameter stat...

This paper presents the architecture of the Concept-based Vector Space Model Question Answering System (CBVSM-QAS) developed at the Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT) and used in the 4-th NTCIR workshop Question Answering Challenge (QAC) evaluation. The CBVSM-QAS runs on the factual question, which is, correspond to the subtask-1 in the NTCIR-4’s QAC. One major peculiarity of this system is...