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... small, and only big enough to EURASIP Journal on Information Security (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Figure 1: Five sample images Luminance degree f (x, y) Contrast degree con(x, y) Cones and rods response g() ... different perceptions This phenomenon shows that brightness is not the monotonous function of visual sensitivity, that is, visual sensitivity is not only influenced by brightness but also by contrast of ... Section The internal factors influencing payload are elaborated on in Section Section introduces the subjective and objective estimation systems for perceptibility In Section 5, the correlation

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... relaxation. Linear programming techniques can be usedtosolvethisstrongerproblemformulation;however, the solutions may be nonintegral. In such cases, we propose a simple branching operation on only ... egradation in performance. 6. Conclusion In this paper, the resource allocation for scalable video transmission over OFDMA-based cognitive radio networks 10 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications ... solution may occasionally be nonintegral. To obtain an integer feasible solution, we propose a simple branching operation on the fractional values at the output of the simplex method. Simu- lation

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... interaction with personal communication signals,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 43, no 2, pp 194–197, 1995 [13] M Haardt, Efficient one-, two-, and multidimensional highresolution array ... is nonparametric in the sense that it does not make any assumptions on the form of the relationship between the two variables, other than being a monotonic relationship Spearman’s correlation ... distributional location and scale parameters are further discussed in Section 3.2 FABLE Notation The goal of this section is to provide a new notation for the MIMO channel matrix This notation is

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... retransmissions These EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking nth contention 2nd contention 1st contention RTS CTS Data RTS ACK ACK ··· RTS ACK Start (a) BMW Contention RTS Start CTS · ... operation time is divided into fixed size frames by means of time division duplexing operation mode A frame consists of a downlink subframe for transmission from the base station to subscriber stations ... transmission; T p is the bandwidth consumed with one multicast data packet transmission followed (or preceded) possibly by an interframe space; Ta is the bandwidth consumed with one B-ACK transmission

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... SINR as we mentioned earlier Conclusions In this paper, we analyzed the multiuser downlink transmission for linearly precoded SDM MIMO schemes in conjunction with a base station packet scheduler ... systems are given in Section The analytical and numerical results are provided and discussed in Section Finally, the conclusions are drawn in Section System Model In this section, we describe the system ... symbols One PRB of 12 contiguous subcarriers can be configured for localized transmission in a sub-frame (in the localized FDMA transmission scheme, each user’s data is transmitted by consecutive

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... selection of BPSO parameters that fit the symbol detection optimization problem The basic fitness function used by the optimization algorithm to converge to the near optimal solution is (9) Selection ... Code rate Component Codes Constraint length Octal generator polynomial Turbo interleaver length Colony size Limit Value Iterations Population size Termination criteria ω c1 = c Population size Number ... Number of iterations Termination criteria Population initialization method TTCM code parameters ABC Parameters PSO Parameters GA Parameters Step Selection by Onlookers Each onlooker bee in the

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... signal decomposition and (2) components grouping Bregman considered that the components organization included sequential organization on time series and simultaneous organization on frequency series ... based on the idea of continuous numbered harmonics For sounds without this feature, DHF is improper Conclusions In this paper, we propose the dynamic harmonic functions which derive from conventional ... the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, pp 67–70, Kyoto, Japan, 1989 [18] J C Brown and M S Puckette, “Calculation of a “narrowed” autocorrelation function,” Journal of

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... parallel control system We present three subsections on those specific means of which two contain new contributions from our work The first subsection of Section is containing an overview of level control ... exposure control types used for the control of lens, integration time of the sensor, and gain control, such as a PID control, precalculated control based on the camera response function, and propose ... Figure 5: Model of the sequential control loop for video-level control Gain boost control Long exposure control region region tIT = Gmax tETmax Lens control region for integer number of lines tIT

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... Section The evaluation of the segmentation method is presented in Section The proposed inpainting approach is described in Section along with a brief look at the literature on the topic In Section ... the contour area corresponding to a given possible specular region Nmin is a constant allowing to restrict the computation to larger specular regions, as the problem of nonspecular saturation occurs ... “Detecting specular reflections using lambertian constraints,” in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision, pp 297–302, 1988 R Gershon, A D Jepson, and J K Tsotsos, “The

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... Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’07), June 2007 [13] A Torralba, “Contextual priming for object detection,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol 53, ... challenging contexts such as construction sites In particular, we focus our attention on the detection of pedestrians (i.e., standing people) for two reasons: pedestrian detection is actually ... inclusion of specific contextual information in the process The third task extends EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Step A: Learning the context (A.2) Context knowledge extraction (A.3)

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... recognition systems,” IEEE transactions on Information Theory, vol 9, no 1, pp 11–17, 1963 [29] A W Whitney, “Direct method of nonparametric measurement selection,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, ... Rodriguez, and S Marcel, ? ?On performance evaluation of face detection and localization algorithms,” in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR ’04), vol 1, pp ... human face detection,” Image and Vision Computing, vol 15, no 9, pp 713–735, 1997 [7] P Viola and M J Jones, “Robust real-time face detection,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol 57, no

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... face recognition with illumination, pose, and expression variations and is less sensitive to alignment errors Empirical evaluation on video-based recognition with methods for operation on feature ... 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ’08), June 2008 [35] P Viola and M J Jones, “Robust real-time face detection,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol ... Section 4; the extension of MRH for videobased face recognition is presented in Section 5; Section comes to the conclusion and future work Previous Approaches 2.1 Still Image Face Recognition Research

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... through simula- tions. Finally, the conclusions are summarised in Section 7. Ta bl e 1 lists some of the notational conventions used. Table 1: Mathematical notations. Notation Description s Lowercase ... these components may introduce. On the other hand, our implementation requires an interrupt in the transmission while the solution in [9] enables concurrent transmission and calibration. We also ... as a function of the gain control word. The base-station would then use these values to adjust the calibration coefficients accordingly. 3. Implementation Our implementation was done on the universal

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... reason, we developed a novel data collection method based on nonspontaneous read speech with speaker options Because we want consistency across utterances (criterion 3), we collect nonspontaneous ... Target word, context, utterance Target word, context, utterance, nonprosodic Target word, utterance Combination set (target word) Combination set (target word, context, utterance) Context control words ... emotions they convey are highly dependent on the context of the interaction [13] A concept closely related to transparency is the “feeling of another’s knowing” [14]—a listener’s perception of

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... is not diagonal, the optimal condition (45) may need to be jointly considered with the Kronecker product approximation in [22] We omit further discussions for brevity CFR Estimation for Alamouti-Like ... practical applications This is because practical implementation of communication systems will inevitably impose some additional constraints on the sequences To give an example, let us consider the CP-based ... a brief convergence analysis In Section 5, we provide extensive simulation results and also compare with others’ work to demonstrate the efficacy of this estimation approach Section concludes this

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... individuals, households, nations and international relations. Additionally, the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992) and the World Conference on Women (1995) have highlighted the principle ... biotechnological revolution on develop- ing countries’ food systems began from a discussion on lessons learned from the Green Revo- lution, the present-day revolutionary force is different in one main respect: ... TRIPS obligations by adopting alternative modes of protections such as Plant Variety Protections ( UPOV) style legislation based on the 1978 or 1991 Convention (although they may now only join...

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... serious mental health conditions • Includes a range of conditions, some of which may not be the focus of mental health legislation e.g. mental retardation 24 Table 1. Comparison of definitions ... the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965, Articles 11.1(f) and 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... to conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar depression apply equally to other conditions such as mental retardation, and therefore a broad definition is preferred. People with mental retardation...

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... Impact of economic crises on mental health page 3 2. How can we contribute to mental health? Mental health is determined by socioeconomic and environmental factors (2). An economic ... Region, alcohol consumption is negatively associated with population mental health. Alcohol consumption plays a considerable role in increasing suicide, especially among men (14,15). Mental ... dry seasons? European Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 7:215–220. 71. Weaver JD. Economic recession and increases in mental health emergencies. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 1983,...

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... from information about risks of not evacuating and recovery services Disasters: Impact on Mental Health in an Elderly Population and Practical Suggestions for Preparation, Response, and Recovery Lisa ... appropriateness of reactions and normalizes the experience • Psycho-educational focus • Duration of treatment – short-term Traditional Crisis Counseling Pan American Health Organization: Health Library ... informal social networks, or their personal physician for relief from their distress. Evaluation Considerations When Assessing Those at Risk Determine person’s proximity to the disaster Learn...

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