Pointers are an important programming concept. They are used explicitely or implicitly in many programming languages. In particular, the semantics of object-oriented programming languages rely on pointers. We introduce a semantics for pointer structures. Pointers are seen as indexes and pointer fields are functions from these indexes to values. Using this semantics we turn all pointer operation...

In this paper, we present a study on the characterization and the classification of binary digital objects. This study is performed using a set of values obtained by the computation of "shape and texture indexes". To get the shape indexes, we extract a set of data called "measures" from 2D shapes, like for example surface and perimeter. These indexes are then used as parameters of a function re...

The conventional way to speedup queries execution is by using indexes. Designing secure indexes for an encrypted database environment raises the question of how to construct the index so that no information about the database content is exposed. In this paper, the challenges raised when designing a secure index for an encrypted database are outlined; the attacker model is described; possible at...

The objective of this research was to develop a screening inventory for Thai Muslims spouses at risk of domestic violence behaviors in Satun Province. The study was conducted with the subject group of 1,140 households consisting of 2,280 people recruited through multi-stage sampling. The data were analyzed using the R program to find out the indexes of item-objective congruence, t-values, corre...

Higgs inflation can occur if the Standard Model (SM) is a self-consistent effective field theory up to inflationary scale. This leads to a lower bound on the Higgs boson mass, Mh ≥ Mcrit. If Mh is more than a few hundreds of MeV above the critical value, the Higgs inflation predicts the universal values of inflationary indexes, r ' 0.003 and ns ' 0.97, independently on the Standard Model parame...

Index of vulnerability is a parameter based on ventricular gradient evaluating the risk of arrhythmia development. The index is derived from isointegral maps of the QT interval. Individual characteristics of isointegral maps are influenced by different factors, which contribute to the relatively high variability among measured parameters of maps in measured subjects. While several electrocardio...

The aim of this paper is to improve the implementation of RSA algorithm in some certain situations. This improvement is based on the ideas of H. Ren-Junn, S. Feng-Fu, Y. Yi-Shiung and C. Chia-Yao and allows us to speed up the transmission of data between various nodes in networks. We realized our idea in the C# language and in the database that was created by SQL Server 2008 R2. Identical datab...

In this paper, we present a study on the characterization and the classification of textures. This study is performed using a set of values obtained by the computation of indexes. To obtain these indexes, we extract a set of data with two techniques: the computation of matrices which are statistical representations of the texture and the computation of "measures". These matrices and measures ar...

In order to separate the conflict of the traffic flow effectively, time delay, number of stops and traffic capacity are chosen as performance indexes, and the objective function related to the cycle time and the saturation of an intersection is established by using the weighting coefficients. Then, based on the uncertainty and convergence analysis of ant colony algorithm (ACA), computational ex...

Aiming at the target recognition problem of multi-sensor with multiple characteristic indexes, a new fusion method is proposed. The method firstly substitutes the distance of confidence for the ordinary attribute values, and the weights of attributes are derived by solving the optimal programming of maximizing the total square deviation of the confidence distance for all attributes. Then accord...