An integer reversible implementation of multiple component transform is significant for lossless, unified lossy/lossless and progressive lossy-lossless multi-component or hyper-spectral image coding. In this proposal, we present a reversible integer mapping method for invertible linear transforms. Its effectiveness was evaluated using 2 6-band Landsat TM images and an 80-component hyper-spectra...

The research around visual search is gaining relevance due to the evolution in the generation and usage of digital images. A significant push comes from the mobile visual search topic, due to the widespread proliferation of camera enabled mobile devices. The new scenarios are increasing the urgency of novel solutions for challenging problems such as the efficient coding of compact visual descri...

In 2011, a new Software Engineering Standards for very small entities (ISO/IEC 29110) was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In 2014, an ISO/IEC 29110 systems engineering, management and engineering guide has been developed using ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 systems engineering standard. Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach governing the total technical ...

Controlling the development of large and complex software is usually done in a quantitative manner using software metrics as the foundation for decision making. Large projects usually collect large amounts of metrics although present only a few key ones for daily project, product, and organization monitoring. The process of collecting, analyzing and presenting the key information is usually sup...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international organization that sets standards which provide measurable quality to products and services which, if implemented correctly, should increase reliability and operational efficiency. ISO established several IT standards, one of which is ISO/IEC27001:2005 Information Security Management System (ISO27001), providing securit...

We combine interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) with existing evolutionary synthesis software for the design of micromachined resonators and evaluate its effectiveness using human evaluation of the final designs and a test for statistical significance of the improvements. The addition of IEC produces superior designs with fewer potential design or manufacturing problems than those produce...

Understanding how people with delusions arrive at false conclusions is central to the refinement of cognitive behavioural interventions. Making hasty decisions based on limited data ('jumping to conclusions', JTC) is one potential causal mechanism, but reasoning errors may also result from other processes. In this study, we investigated the correlates of reasoning errors under differing task co...

Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic agent known to cause prolongation of action potential duration which is reflected in the electrocardiogram as a prolongation of the QT interval. Prolongation of the QT interval in patients dying suddenly was compared with that in patients who remained alive to determine whether a difference existed between these two groups. The electrocardiogram and amiodarone le...

The purpose of the this study was to evaluate the cytotoxicity of dental resin monomers in the presence of a rat liver S9 mix containing cytochrome P 450 enzymes. JTC-12 cells derived from a monkey kidney were seeded on a 96-well multi-well-plate at 9 x 10(3) cells per well. After cultivation, the S9 mix was added to the wells as an S9 mix group (+S9), and PBS- was added to the other wells as a...

Alexander Heifetz John T. Shen Jong-Kwon Lee Renu Tripathi M. S. Shahriar Northwestern University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Evanston, Illinois 60208 Abstract. We demonstrate a translation-invariant VanderLugt correlator VLC for a set of images stored via holographic angle multiplexing of volume gratings in a polymeric substrate. The images read out from the volume gratin...