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Hide Encrypted Secret Image into Audio File using Multi-Logistic Chaotic Map and Wavelet Transform

– People around the world are communicating with each other by using many different ways. The best and most common one is the “Internet”, since it provides all multimedia file formats as a means of communication between users. When users log into the internet, they step into the public area. Accordingly, the need for security requirements has emerged in order to exchange private messages or sensitive information among them. In this work, multi-layers of security that relies on both cryptography and steganography technologies are adopted to improve the immunity of the proposed Image-in-Audio steganography system towards protect and ensure the safety of information “Secret-Image” transmitted between two or more entities in a cover fashion. An innovative Multi-logistic Chaotic map encryption method is applied to convert the digital secret image into meaningless form before it leaves senders’ computer in order to nullify the value of interception by attackers. With the purpose of achieving a robust system, the notions of steganography are exploited to embed the encrypted image through the low frequency components of a Cover-Audio using Wavelet transform while retaining the perceptual quality in human auditory system for Stego-signal, such that potential intruders do not even know that a message is being sent. The suggested system was tested on more than 700 different image (of any type) and audio (WAVE format) samples of various dimensions in addition to thousands of heterogeneous files from a common DB necessary for secret keys generation. The obtained results prove the efficiency of the system according to the higher (PSNR > 40 db) using D4-wavelet coefficients, with suitable hiding rates close to 30%.
Sinorhizobiummeliloti genes involved in tolerance to the antimicrobial peptideprotamine

The innate resistance of plants and animals to microbial infection is mediated in part by small cationic peptides with antimicrobial activity. We assessed the susceptibility of the alfalfa symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti to the model antimicrobial peptide protamine. Twenty-one Tn5-induced mutants showing increased sensitivity to protamine were isolated, and nine were further characterized in detail. These nine mutants carried distinct transposon insertions that affected a total of seven different genes. Three of these genes are involved in exopolysaccharide and b-(1,2)-glucan biosynthesis (exoT, exoU and ndvB), three other genes are implicated in nitrogen metabolism, such as a putative dyhidropyrimidinase, hutU and ureF, and the last gene exhibited similarity to the ATP binding cassette family of membrane transporters. Symbiotic defects ranging from severe to moderate were displayed by some of the protamine-hypersensitive mutants suggesting that S. meliloti possess active mechanisms to counteract hypothetical cationic peptides that may be produced by its host plant.
Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (cid:1) Gene Variants Influence Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

Background —Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (cid:1) (PPAR (cid:1) ) regulates the expression of genes involved in lipid metabolism and inflammation, making it a candidate gene for atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease (IHD). Methods and Results —We investigated the association between the leucine 162 to valine (L162V) polymorphism and a G to C transversion in intron 7 of the PPAR (cid:1) gene and progression of atherosclerosis in the Lopid Coronary Angiography Trial (LOCAT), a trial examining the effect of gemfibrozil treatment on progression of atherosclerosis after bypass surgery and on risk of IHD in the second Northwick Park Heart Study (NPHS2), a prospective study of healthy middle-aged men in the United Kingdom. There was no association with plasma lipid concentrations in either study. Both polymorphisms influenced progression of atherosclerosis and risk of IHD. V162 allele carriers had less progression of diffuse atherosclerosis than did L162 allele homozygotes with a similar trend for focal atherosclerosis. Intron 7 C allele carriers had greater progression of atherosclerosis than did G allele homozygotes. The V162 allele attenuated the proatherosclerotic effect of the intron 7 C allele. Homozygotes for the intron 7 C allele had increased risk of IHD, an effect modulated by the L162V polymorphism Conclusions —The PPAR (cid:1) gene affects progression of atherosclerosis and risk of IHD. Absence of association with plasma lipid concentrations suggests that PPAR (cid:1) affects atherosclerotic progression directly in the vessel wall. ( Circulation . 2002;105:1440-1445.) ANOVA was used to assess the effect of genotype on baseline characteristics. Survival analysis was carried out with Cox proportional hazards model, with significance assessed by the likelihood ratio test. Adjustment was performed for age, BMI, smoking status, systolic blood pressure, fibrinogen, and cholesterol. Because of the low numbers of individuals with L162V VV genotype, genotypes LV and VV were combined.
Isothermal equation of state and phase stability of Fe<sub>5</sub>Si<sub>3</sub> up to 96Â€GPa and 3000Â€K

The composition of Earth’s core has first-order implications for understanding the thermal and chemical history of the deep Earth. The present work measures the pressure-volume equation of state of Fe5Si3 to 96 GPa in a diamond anvil cell using noble gas pressure media and demonstrates that Fe5Si3 is not stable at high temperature and pressure but reappears during thermal quench. The isothermal equation of state at ambient temperature of Fe5Si3 is given by the bulk modulus KT,0 = 167 (8) and KT,00 = 5.1 (2), with V0 = 56.29 cm 3 mol . At high temperatures and pressures we observed the disappearance of hexagonal Fe5Si3 diffraction peaks and the appearance of peaks corresponding to cubic FeSi and Fe3Si structures at 18 GPa and at the lowest measurable temperature (~1300 K), indicating that Fe5Si3 is not stable at high temperature. Upon temperature quench diffraction peaks corresponding to Fe5Si3 reappear, confirming its stability at ambient temperature and high pressure.
Estimation Of Delay And Power Analysis Of Sense Amplifiers

- Sense amplifiers plays a necessary role in CMOS memories, it is mostly used to hurry the memory read operation in a cache memory both memory access time and overall memory power consumption affects the performance of sense amplifier by use of current mode than voltage mode signal transporting technique in this we use the low resistance current signal circuits to lower the impedance level and voltage swing on extended interconnect wire, the interruption for changed power supply voltages Vdd and for altered values of bit line capacitances are specified. Results of static power and total power consumption for unlike values of Vdd are simulated and analyzed
Swallowing Impairment in Critically Ill Patients craniectomy with Lower Cranial Nerve (LCN) decompression

Head and spinal cord trauma, diseases of peripheral nervous system, muscular weakness may be associated with respiratory dysfunction and swallowing disorders. Involvement of upper airway muscles, including muscles of mastication (cranial nerve V, VII), laryngeal and pharyngeal nerves (cranial nerves IX, XII), may predispose subject to aspiration. Chronic coughing, weight loss, and repeated episodes of aspiration pneumonia are major symptoms in patients with disordered swallowing. Early detection of drop in consciousness, cough strength, swallowing and airway protection due to pharyngeal and laryngeal muscle dysfunction and dysphagia, respiratory support and regarding intubation, placement of nasogastric tube feeding or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube is recommended.
Long non-coding RNAs and their proposed functions in fibre 1 development of cotton ( Gossypium spp.)

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts of at least 200 bp in length, that 17 possess no apparent coding capacity and are involved in various biological regulatory processes. Until now, no systematic identification of lncRNAs has been reported in 19 cotton ( Gossypium spp.). Here, we describe the identification of 30,550 long intergenic non-coding RNA 21 (lincRNA) loci (50,566 transcripts) and 4,718 long non-coding natural antisense 22 transcript (lncNAT) loci (5,826 transcripts). LncRNAs are rich in repetitive sequences 23 and preferentially expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The detection of abundant 24 genome-specific and/or lineage-specific lncRNAs indicated their weak evolutionary 25 conservation. Approximately 76% of homoeologous lncRNAs exhibit biased 26 expression patterns towards the At or Dt subgenomes. Compared with protein-coding 27 genes, lncRNAs showed overall higher methylation levels and their expression was 28 less affected by gene body methylation. The expression validation in different cotton accessions and co-expression network 30 construction helped identify several functional lncRNA candidates involved in cotton fibre initiation and elongation. Analysis of integrated expression from the 32 subgenomes of lncRNAs generating miR397 and its targets due to genome 33 polyploidization indicated their pivotal functions in regulating lignin metabolism in 34 domesticated tetraploid cotton fibres. study provides a first comprehensive .
Cloud Assisted P2P Live Video Streaming over DHT Overlay Network

Many works have attempted to solve the scalability, the availability, and the low-latency problems of peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming; yet, the problems still remain. While tree-based systems are vulnerable to churn, the mesh-based systems suffer from high delay and overhead. The DHT-aided chunk-driven overlay (DCO) [1] tried to tackle these problems by using the distributed hash table (DHT), which structures into a mesh-based overlay to efficiently share the video segment. However, DCO fully depends on the capacity of the users’ device which is small and unstable, i.e., the users’ device may leave and join the network anytime, and the video server’s bandwidth can be insufficient when the number of users joining the network suddenly increases. Therefore, cloud assist is introduced to overcome those problems. Cloud assist can be used to enhance the availability, the low-latency, and the scalability of the system. In this paper, the DHT is used to maintain the location of the streaming segments in a distributed manner, and the cloud server is used to assist other peers when the bandwidth which required for sharing the video segment is insufficient. The simulation results show that by using the threshold and cloud assist, the availability and the low-latency of the video segments, and the scalability of the network are greatly improved.
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Frequent and Associated Itemsets For Text Classi�cation

Feature selection is one of the major issues in pattern recognition. The quality of selected features is important for classi�cation as the low-quality data can degrade the model construction performance. Due to the di�culty of dealing with the problem that selected features always contain redundant information, this paper focuses on the association analysis theory in data mining to select important features. In this study, a novel Feature Selection method based on Frequent and Associated Itemsets (FS-FAI) for text classi�cation is proposed. FS-FAI seeks to �nd relevant features and also takes feature interaction into account. Moreover, it uses association as a metric to evaluate the relativity between the target concept and feature(s). To evaluate the e�cacy of the proposed method, several experiments were conducted on a BBC data set from the BBC news website. The obtained results were compared to well-known feature selection methods. The reported results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection method in selecting high-quality features and in handling redundant information in text classi�cation.
Informed decision-making in delivery of dialysis: combining clinical outcomes with sustainabilityCOMP: PLEASE CHECK IF IT IS A REVIEW, THEN ADD AS DOC HEAD -- --

As the prevalence of chronic kidney disease is expected to rise worldwide over the next decades, provision of renal replacement therapy (RRT), will further challenge budgets of all healthcare systems. Most patients today requiring RRT are treated with haemodialysis (HD) therapy and are elderly. This article demonstrates the interdependence of clinical and sustainability criteria that need to be considered to prepare for the future challenges of delivering dialysis to all patients in need. Newer, more sustainable models of high-value care need to be devised, whereby delivery of dialysis is based on value-based healthcare (VBHC) principles, i.e. improving patient outcomes while restricting costs. Essentially, this entails maximizing patient outcomes per amount of money spent or available. To bring such a meaningful change, revised strategies having the involvement of multiple stakeholders (i.e. patients, providers, payers and policymakers) need to be adopted. Although each stakeholder has a vested interest in the value agenda often with conflicting expectations and motivations (or motives) between each other, progress is only achieved if the multiple blocs of the delivery system are advanced as mutually reinforcing entities. Clinical considerations of delivery of dialysis need to be based on the entire patient disease pathway and evidence-based medicine, while the non-clinical sustainability criteria entail, in addition to economics, the societal and ecological implications of HD therapy. We discuss how selection of appropriate modes and features of delivery of HD (e.g. treatment modalities and schedules, selection of consumables, product life cycle assessment) could positively impact decision-making towards value-based renal care. Although the delivery of HD therapy is multifactorial and complex, applying cost-effectiveness analyses for the different HD modalities (conventional in-centre and home HD) can support in guiding payability (balance between clinical value and costs) for health systems. For a resource intensive therapy like HD, concerted and fully integrated care strategies need to be urgently implemented to cope with the global demand and burden of HD therapy.
University of Birmingham Soil greenhouse gas fluxes , environmental controls and the partitioning of N 2 O sources in UK natural and semi-natural land use types

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Dual-Mode Antenna for Health Monitoring System in Body-Centric Wireless Communications

Body-centric wireless communications (BCWCs) have become an active area of research owing to many applications, such as healthcare systems, identification systems, and entertainment. In this paper, a dual-mode antenna for body-centric wireless communications is studied. In on-body mode, the antenna is similar to a pair of metal electrodes operating at 10 MHz, and in off-body mode, with an L-shaped slit embedded, the antenna can cover the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.45 GHz). Since the proposed antenna is applied in BCWCs, the simulated received voltage and electric field distributions on the arm phantom, chest phantom, and high-resolution human model are discussed in this paper. Measured results, including reflection coefficient and radiation patterns in the ISM band (2.45 GHz) are presented to validate the proposed antenna.
The Coherent Approach for 5G Networks: Scenarios

- Efficient coordination among network elements and optimal resource utilization in heterogeneous mobile networks (HMNs) is a key factor for the success of future 5G systems. The COHERENT project focuses on developing an innovative programmable control and coordination framework which is aware of the underlying network topology, radio environment and traffic conditions, and can efficiently coordinate available spectrum resources. In this paper, we provide a set of scenarios and use cases that the COHERENT project intends to address.
REGRESSION OF CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM POST INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN (IVIG) AND ASPIRIN TREATMENT WITHIN A MONTH IN CLASSIC KAWASAKI DISEASE IN AN INFANT

Most cases of Kawasaki disease (KD) occur between the ages of 6 months and 8 years and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. KD is generalised systemic vasculitis that affects small to medium sized blood vessels throughout the body however the coronary arteries are involved in the majority of the cases in the form aneurysms. They develop in up to 25% of untreated children however with treatment the risk is reduced to less than 5%. The fact that coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may undergo regressions /resolutions has been reported. In some patient’s regression occurs dramatically over a short period of time whereas in others it takes over years. Here I report a case where CAA regressed within a month, a very short time, after IVIG and aspirin therapy in classic KD in an infant. *Corresponding Author: Dr. Saiprasad Onkareshwar Kavthekar Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Institute, D.Y. Patil Education Society (Deemed to be University), Kolhapur(416006), Maharashtra, India. Email id: saiprasadka@yahoo.co.in Kavthekar. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences www.ejbps. com 335 coronary artery [LMCA aneurysm 3.2mm ] and normal bi-ventricular dimensions and function. Child was treated with IVIG 2Gms / kg over 10 hours and high dose of oral Aspirin 80mg/kg/day in 4 divided doses as an antiinflammatory dose. His fever came down to normal in next 36 hours and CRP came to normal after 72 hours. As CRP came to normal, the dose of Aspirin was tapered to 2 mg/kg day as an antiplatelet dose and continued till 1 month. Child was monitored for next 72 hours and discharged as clinical signs and symptoms improved. 2 D Echocardiology was repeated at 4 weeks after IVIG and Aspirin treatment and showed coronaries diameter were normal and regression of LMCA aneurysm [LMCA 1.8 mm, LAD 1.6mm, RCA 1.8 mm. ]. The child was totally asymptomatic and his TLC, platelet count, ESR and CRP came to normal. His 2 D Echocardiography was repeated again twice, after 6 months and 1 year and which showed total resolution of coronary aneurysms and normal diameter coronaries. DISCUSSION KD is an acute febrile illness of childhood seen worldwide with the highest incidence occurring in Asian children, and a predilection for the coronary arteries. [8] The cardiac complications of KD are CAA, decreased coronary arterial compliance, myopericarditis, arrhythmias, valvular regurgitation, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. The most commonest complication is CAA. [8,9] The risk factors to predict the presence of CAA include boys less than 1 year of age, fever lasting longer than 2 weeks ,elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate persisting for more than 4 weeks and palpable axillary artery
A∞(R) WEIGHTS AND THE LOCAL MAXIMAL OPERATOR

Abstract. Let s ∈ (0, 1/2), M0, s be the local maximal operator of John and Strömberg, and M0, s the multi(sub)linear local maximal operator. In this paper, the authors give some characterizations of the weights w1, . , w for which the operatorM0, s is bounded from L1 (R, w1)× . ×Lp (R, w ) to L(R, ν w) with ν w = ∏ k=1 w p/pk k , p1, . , p ∈ (0, ∞) and 1/p = ∑ 1≤k≤ 1/pk. A new characterization of A∞(R) weights and a characterization of weights w which satisfies w ∈ A∞(R) for some θ ∈ (0, ∞), are also obtained.
XD-AT: A Cross-Dictionary Annotation Tool

Linking lexical datasets to each other is a key strategy for expanding and enriching their content with additional data from other resources. However, different resources show significant differences in the degree of granularity of the lexicographic information. Thus, while extending more coarse-grained datasets with content from fine-grained ones seems a feasible task, the other way around cannot be tackled directly. For this reason, linking datasets at the level of meaning rather than word level is essential. But also, for the same reason, word alignment at the level of meaning is a challenging task not yet solved. Within this context, we created XD-AT, a web-based annotation tool aimed to assist humans to annotate linked sense pairs across dictionaries. In this work, we focus in XD-AT’s main functionalities, capabilities and potential extensions, such as reusability and adaptability. For example, although XD-AT has been implemented to classify the type of relationship between linked senses from an English monolingual dictionary and the English side of bilingual ones, XD-AT can also be extended into a more general annotation tool for marking up any type of cross-dictionary mappings at the sense level.
A Multi-Method Approach to Assessing the Usability of Mobile Job Advertisements

—Accessing the Web from mobile devices has become increasingly common even when searching for job information. Nowadays, most job board offerings are mobile-optimized. However, the search results often refer to job advertisements (ads) and external career pages that are not completely optimized for mobile access. As a result, mobile users may be confronted with inadequate usability or a dissatisfactory user experience. In this context, the purpose of this study is to assess the usability of job ads posted on job portals to identify deficits and best practices. This paper is a work in progress and presents the intended multi-method approach as well as some preliminary findings for an exemplary sample of job ads posted on a German job board.
University of Birmingham Inadequate anticoagulation by Vitamin K Antagonists is associated with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in patients with atrial fibrillation

Citation for published version (Harvard): Pastori, D, Pignatelli, P, Saliola, M, Carnevale, R, Vicario, T, Del Ben, M, Cangemi, R, Barillà, F, Lip, GYH & Violi, F 2015, 'Inadequate anticoagulation by Vitamin K Antagonists is associated with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in patients with atrial fibrillation', International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 201, pp. 513516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard. 2015.08. 054
Delft University of Technology Neuromuscular control before and after independent walking onset in children with cerebral palsy

Early brain lesions which produce cerebral palsy (CP) may affect the development of walking. It is unclear whether or how neuromuscular control, as evaluated by muscle synergy analysis, differs in young children with CP compared to typically developing (TD) children with the same walking ability, before and after the onset of independent walking. Here we grouped twenty children with (high risk of) CP and twenty TD children (age 6.5–52.4 months) based on their walking ability, supported or independent walking. Muscle synergies were extracted from electromyography data of bilateral leg muscles using non-negative matrix factorization. Number, synergies’ structure and variability accounted for when extracting one (VAF1) or two (VAF2) synergies were compared between CP and TD. Children in the CP group recruited fewer synergies with higher VAF1 and VAF2 compared to TD children in the supported and independent walking group. The most affected side in children with asymmetric CP walking independently recruited fewer synergies with higher VAF1 compared to the least affected side. Our findings suggest that early brain lesions result in early alterations of neuromuscular control, specific for the most affected side in asymmetric CP.