We consider factors not only in a packet, but also in its locality, to account for possible temporal and spatial masking effects. We apply our visibility model to packet priority for a video stream, when the network gets jam-packed at an in-between router; the router is able to choose which packets to drop such that visual quality of the video is minimally crashed. To show the effectiveness of ...

Priority vectors in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) are commonly estimated as constant values calculated by pairwise comparison ratios elicited from an expert. For multiple experts, or panel data, other data with varied characteristics of measurements, priority can be built functions auxiliary predictors. example, multi-person decision making, priorities obtained regression modeling demogr...

Since the early 90's a number of papers on \robust" digital watermarking systems have been presented but none of them uses the same robustness criteria. This is not practical at all for comparison and slows down progress in this area. To address this issue, we present an evaluation procedure of image watermarking systems. First we identify all necessary parameters for proper benchmarking and in...

This paper presents a novel flexible control strategy for Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC), which achieves more flexibility in compensation of power quality disturbances as compared to the existing methods. The proposed control strategy provides priority-based compensation as well as full and standard-based compensation considering the rating of series and shunt parts of a UPQC. The pri...

Quality of life research in chronic schizophrenia has not adequately focussed upon psychometric properties of the disease specific scales (including Quality of Life Scale); especially in the cross-cultural perspective. The authors attempted to assess certain psychometric properties of the Quality of Life Scale (QLS); modified as per the Indian cultural background Fifteen patients of ICD-10 chro...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to propose the Clinical Inventory of Sleep Quality (CISQ), and compared it with the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). METHODS We studied 400 subjects with the CISQ. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to measure the reliability, and to determine the concurrent validity, a Canonical correlation analysis was performed. At next, we used an explo...