There are several situations in which one can obtain estimates of life-table probabilities of survivorship, I(%), but in which one would still want to smooth' these estimates with reference to a model life table. For example, one could calculate a life table directly by converting observed ,m, values into , q, and hence into l(x) values. In other instances, the I (x ) values available may not d...

In rough set theory, attribute reduction is a basic issue, which aims to hold the discernibility of the attribute set. To obtain all of the reducts of an information system or a decision table, researchers have introduced many discernibility matrixes based reduction methods. However, the reducts in the sense of positive region can only be obtained by using the existing discernibility matrixes. ...

the effect of eight cucumis l. (cucurbitaceae) genotypes, including native cucumber genotypes (hormozgan, bushehr and gilan), greenhouse cucumber genotypes (girtap, negeen, sepehr and pouya) and armenian cucumber (cucumis melo var. flexuosus) was studied on the life table and population growth parameters of aphis gossypii glover to evaluate antibiosis resistance. the experiment was conducted at...

This work addresses the watermarking of an entropy coded H.264/AVC video stream. The phrase Substitution Watermarking is used to imply that the application of the watermark to the stream is accomplished by substituting an original block of bits in the entropy-encoded stream with an alternative block of bits. This substitution is done for many different blocks of bits to embed the watermark. Thi...

The paper describes a software implementation of an MPEG–compliant Entropy Decoder on a TriMedia/CPU64 processor. We first outline entropy decoding basics and TriMedia/CPU64 architecture. Then, we describe the reference implementation of the entropy decoder, which consists mainly of a software pipelined loop. On each iteration, a set of look-up tables partitioning the VariableLength Codes (VLC)...

neoseiulus californicus (mcgregor) is a predatory mite that can control spider mites. the effect of seven strawberry cultivars (including: ‘marak’, ‘yalova’, ‘aliso’, ‘gaviota’, ‘sequoia’, ‘camarosa’ and ‘chandler’) on the growth and development of n. californicus was studied in the laboratory conditions (27 ± 1 °c, 70 ± 5% rh and 16l: 8d photoperiod). there was significant difference in the nu...