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... MODELING OF SCALABLE VIDEO CODERSA DissertationbyMIN DAISubmitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M Universityin partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF ... characteristics of existing video traffic. Rate-distortion(R-D) based schemes are often applied to improve and stabilize video quality; how-ever, the lack of R-D modeling of scalable coders limits ... part of this work, we analyze R-D curves of scalable videocoders and propose a novel operational R-D model. We evaluate and demonstratethe accuracy of our R-D function in various scalable coders,...
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... menwere court-martialed for the use of profanity during the war, in violation of the 83rd Article of War requiring conduct appropriate to one’s status as an “officer and a gentleman.”)On the ... asimplification of the issuessurrounding honor in theNorth during this period.The gentlemen and theroughs represent extremeson a spectrum of manliness, and there wereplenty of men whosecodes of honor ... gentlemen had command over an enlisted group of hard-drinking, oft-fighting, working-class roughs.A clash in codes of honor arose. Youhad one company of men sittingquietly at temperance societymeetings...
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... cidofovir have already been described [5].Vaccinia virus, the prototype member of the Orthopox- virus family, is most often used as a surrogate virus forvariola virus. Unlike most other DNA viruses, ... inthe chemotherapy of DNA virus and retrovirus infec-tions. Intervirology 40, 295–303.3 Quenelle D, Collins D & Kern E (2003) Efficacy of mul-tiple- or single-dose cidofovir against vaccinia ... cow-pox virus infections in mice. Antimicrob AgentsChemother 47, 3275–3280.4 Magee WC, Hostetler KY & Evans DH (2005) Mechan-ism of inhibition of vaccinia virus DNA polymerase bycidofovir...
... G. (1987)Regulation of the host range of human papovavirus JCV. Proc.NatlAcad.Sci.USA84, 3695–3698.9. Tooze, J. (1981) Molecular biology of tumor virus, part 2. DNATumor Viruses. Cold Spring ... cells by insertion of a simian virus 40enhancer into the JC virus regulatory region. Virology 170, 353–361.53. Smith, R. & Nasheuer, H. (2002) Control of complex formation of DNA polymerase ... determine the restriction of virus propagation to a particular host. For SV40 and PyVthese are, respectively, the p180 and p48 subunits of DNApolymerase a-primase in initiation of DNA replication[22–24,26,27,53]....
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... hospital. Although the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services alleged that the victim’s death was because of physical abuse, the official certificate ofdeath stated that it was an accident ... restraints.13 Death from Face Down Restraints or Restraints that Block the Airway: Of the hundreds of allegations we identified, at least 20 involved restraints that resulted in death. Of the 10 ... supervision of the individual; or which deprives the individual of one or more of his or her senses. Colorado Colo. Rev. Stat. ĐĐ 26-20-101 to -109 (Human Services Code; Protection of Persons...