This paper presents a simple protocol that provides application processes with an approximate real-time notion. This time notion is very versatile. At one extreme, it behaves at least as virtual time (being thereby consistent with causality). At the other extreme, it behaves as real-time. More precisely, with respect to approximate real-time all scheduled events are always executed at their sch...

The network’s convenience has created a copyright dilemma for some multimedia works. Nowadays, every healthcare system relies on digital medical images diagnosis. These are transmitted through communication channels, so there is risk of tampering and violation. A watermarking can ensure guarantee that violation prevented. This study presents nonblind approach to X-ray based Contourlet...

As the most preventable cause of death in the world today, understanding tobacco use among one of the fastest growing ethnic/racial groups is warranted. We explore cigarette and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among South Asians in NJ and the Northeast using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey. Overall, tobacco use rates among South Asians were similar or lower than the popu...

The relationship between the family SH of simple splicing languages, which was recently introduced by A. Mateescu and coauthors, and the family SLT of strictly locally testable languages is clariied by establishing an ascending hierarchy of families fSiH : i ?1g of splicing languages for which SH = S1H and the union of the families is the family SLT. A procedure is given which, for an arbitrary...

Purpose: Genu varum deformity changes the line of gravity from center of knee towards the medial side. This deviation results in changes in the upper part of the lower extremity that can affect postural control as well as the position and activity of the proximal muscles of the knee joint, like the gluteus medius muscle. Therefore this study aims to investigate the effect of genu varum disorder...