In this paper, a robust invisible watermarking system for digital video encoded by MPEG-4 is presented. The proposed scheme provides watermark hidden by embedding a secret message (watermark) in the sprite area allocated in reference frame (I-frame). The proposed system consists...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23171
Ani Ogonna Christiana, Nnamounu Emmanuel Ikechukwu, Onuchkwu Chinedu Christian, Nwabor Ozioma Forstinus & Agah Maduka Victo·Microbiology Research Journal International·2015
Aims: This study investigated the bacterial load and isolated the implicated bacteria on the leaf surfaces of Alchornea cordifolia, Musa sapientum and Thaumatococcus danielli in Ebonyi State, South Eastern Nigeria. Study Design: The research was laboratory-based investigation. Pl...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/22391
Md. Sahab Uddin, Mahbubul Hossain, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sonia Zaman, Md. Asaduzzaman & Mamunur Rashid·Advances in Research·2015
Pharmaceutical aerosol is a pressurized system that depends on the power of a compressed or liquefied gas to expel the contents from the container. Therapeutic performance of pharmaceutical aerosols is affected by various factors such as actuator tube design, orifice diameter, co...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/22442
Background: Dentist and allied professionals are undoubtedly among professional groups at risk of noise- induced hearing impairment in the workplace. There has been speculation about the relationship between hearing loss and the use of high-speed dental drills among dental profes...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23347
Aim: To highlight the possibilities of Doppler methods to optimize navigation and control of percutaneous echo-controlled minimally invasive interventions. Study Design: 25,543 diagnostic and therapeutic minimally invasive interventions were carried out on organs and tissues of d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23076
Security is an essential element in maintaining any network. This paper demonstrates the development and implementation of a communication security system that uses a layered approach to network security in the conceptual view of knowledge management, thus preserving the integrit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23217
Age estimation is the determination of a person’s age based on biometric features such as face, finger print etc. it is a hard problem for both humans and the computer system. In this paper, back propagation neural network was used to classify face images into eight different age...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22869
Let G be an arbitrary simple and connected graph, with the vertex set V(G) and edge set E(G). The first Zagreb index of a graph G is defined as , where du and dv are the degrees of u and v, respectively. An alternative expression for M1 (G) is . And similarly, the Second Zagreb...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/22752
Batch studies were conducted for kinetics and equilibrium studies on biosorption of Acid Blue 225 (AB 225) dye from aqueous solution by Azolla filiculoides. The biomass used as adsorbent in this work was initially characterized by SEM and BET. The effect of parameter including ad...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/22821
In this paper, a high-order transfer function is reduced by the stability equation method. The reduced model is based on the pole zero patterns. In this paper, the stability equation method is compared to other methods and proved to be better in comparison to other methods in lit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2016/23243
Aims: To evaluate the bacterial diversity and degree of contamination obtainable on the ATM buttons as money is being collected and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates. Study Design: Cross-sectional study including all ATM user interface in the banks within Umuahia...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/22812
Two field experiments were conducted at two seasons at the research fields of the University of Education, Winneba-Mampong campus from September, 2011 to January, 2012 and April to July, 2012 to assess changes in beta-carotene content and sensory attributes of two sweet potato...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2016/22804
This paper aims to show the necessity of tourism police for tourism destinations, give some knowledge about the relationship between tourism and tourism security and present some practical recommendations on tourism police for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is accepted that tourism i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23135
The present paper proposes a partitioning type approach for the parametric minimum flow problem which is based on the classical decreasing directed paths method. On each of its iterations, the algorithm finds a decreasing directed path from source node to sink node in a range of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22636
Aims: This study report the ability of some bacterial strain to degrade the phenanthrene which is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and to optimize the condition controlling the phenanthrene biodegradation. Study Design: Collect different petroleum contaminated sediment samples,...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/23613