Halftone image watermarking with block-directed parity-matched error diffusion by Kun XIE, Hai-hong ZHENG, Ping ZENG, Tao GUO

“…A robust halftone image watermarking method was proposed.The method was developed in parity domain based on pixel block.Especially,the parity sum of a pixel block was defined by comparing the average of the pixel block with an image-dependent threshold.By altering the pixel block's parity based on noise-balanced block error diffusion,watermark was spread into the host image.Watermark was retrieved by employing each pixel block's parity and majority voting strategy,not referring to the original image.Compared with the state-of-the-art method in parity domain,the re-sults indicate that the proposed method has high watermark rate and watermark rate flexibility.Moreover,it is capable of extracting watermark directly from the attacked watermarked image without quantizing it into a halftone image.And it can achieve high robustness against common attacks and print-and-scan attack of different types of printers and scanners.…”
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Advances in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for Langerhans cell histiocytosis in children by Guangqiang Meng, Saran Feng, Yan Wang

“…Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a promising salvage treatment strategy for children with relapse-refractory LCH. …”
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Application of 5G in railway smart stations by Ruifeng CHEN, Jun LI, Chunjie XU, Qingbo CHENG, Xiaojun LV

“…Accelerating the 5G “new infrastructure” strategy has become the inevitable development trend of railway smart stations.Firstly, state-of-the-art of relevant business of railway smart stations in China was analyzed.Afterwards, the application requirements of 5G communication in railway smart stations were outlined, and then 5G communication network architecture of railway smart stations was constructed based on cloud edge collaboration.Finally, the application modes of railway smart stations based on 5G communication and cloud edge collaboration were respectively proposed for passenger travel service, station operating organization, security guarantee and green energy saving.The application of railway smart stations based on 5G communication can promote the transformation and upgrading of stations, enhance the quality of passenger service, improve passenger travel experience, and increase the efficiency of passenger transport operating organization.…”
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GPS Position Prediction Method Based on Chaotic Map-Based Flower Pollination Algorithm by Wanjun Yang, Zengwu Sun

“…Aiming at the fact that FPA leads to the local optimal value in cross-pollination, the chaotic mapping strategy is proposed to optimize related issues that the population is not rich enough in the self-pollination process. …”
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Mesolithic of the Eastern Fennoscandia: chronology and periodization by Dmitriy V. Gerasimov

“…These periods differ significantly in terms of material culture, settling, subsistence strategy and interregional communication systems. Although the differences between the "initial" and "final" appearance of culture are very significant, judging by the available data, the changes accumulated gradually. …”
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The role of sociological research in the planning of advertising campaigns by A. A. Komarova, V. G. Novikov, M. Yu. Zakharov

“…The role of sociological research in the strategy of planning advertising campaigns has been has been considered. …”
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Cost optimization model for multi-cloud network based on Kubernetes by Ming GAO, Ming LIU, Yangting CHEN, Weiming WANG

“…The cloud-native scheduling system, represented by Kubernetes, is widely used by cloud tenants in a multi-cloud environment.The problem of network observation becomes more and more serious, especially the cost of network traffic across cloud and region.In Kubernetes, the eBPF technology was introduced to collect the network data features of kernel state of operating system to solve the network observation problem, and then the network data features were modeled as QAP, a combination of heuristic and stochastic optimization was used to obtain the best near optimal solution in a real-time computing scenario.This model is superior to the Kubernetes native scheduler in the cost optimization of network resources, which is based on the scheduling strategy of computing resources only, and increases the complexity of scheduling links in a controllable range, effectively reduces the cost of network resources in a multi-cloud area deployment environment.…”
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Adaptation of the Career Decision Making Profile Measurement Tool for Students in Indonesia by Nandita Tamara Putri, Hery Susanto

“…In recent years, there was an increasing interest in the importance of individual differences in career decision making, which reflected the strategy pattern adopted by individuals. Optimal decisions were made by several individual when these strategies were adaptive. …”
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A novel energy-aware trustworthy multi-hop routing model for Internet of things by Yichuan Wang, Yefei Zhang, Lei Zhu, Wenjiang Ji, Yanxiao Liu, Xinhong Hei

“…The experimental results suggest that the proposed strategy can lower energy consumption significantly under the premise of trustworthy transmission.…”
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La gestion de l’eau et l’éducation environnementale dans les documents pédagogiques au Burkina Faso by Binto Ouedraogo

“…Burkina Faso, a sahelian country like many others is face to problems of development related to serious ecological consequences: ozone deterioration, climatic changes, soil erosion, deforestation…Face to these hazards the government has taken institutional decisions for the environment protection: six national commitments have been taken which “each school, one grove”, the adoption of environment code, the adoption of a national strategy for environmental education which involved all the formal and non formal education aspects. …”
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A secure authentication method based on hash function for RFID system by Chuan LI, Xuejun LI

“…Limited by the tag chip resource of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system,the data and information security has been an important issue of an RFID system.The one-way Hash function provides an efficient and reliable approach for the identification and authentication of the RFID system.Based on the analysis of several typical Hash authentication protocols,a novel secure authentication protocol based on the Hash function was proposed.The protocol was intended to tackle the identification among the handheld RFID reader,tags and server.Specifically,the protocol utilizes the Hash function to achieve the mutual authentication between the above three objects.The performance analysis shows that the proposed protocol can resist the most known attacks with reduced storage capacity and lower computation overhead.Therefore,the proposed strategy effectively ensures the data and privacy security of the RFID system,achieving the bidirectional anonymous authentication between the terminal and server,which is very suitable for the distributed large-scale RFID system.…”
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Using Social Norms to Increase Behavior Change in Sustainable Landscaping by Laura A. Sanagorski, Paul Monaghan

“…Extension educators can use an understanding of their clients’ reservations and inclinations toward a behavior, or their benefits and barriers, to develop strategies that encourage behavior change. Common strategies include prompts and reminders, incentives, and changing social norms. …”
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Festivals de cinéma dans le monde arabe by Jean-Michel Frodon

“…In the Emirates, the large number of festivals reflects a self promotion strategy rather than a cultural development policy. …”
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L’éducation relative à l’environnement sous l’ère néolibérale : ombres et lumières à l’heure du changement climatique by Edgar J. González Gaudiano

“…This is an integral part of the overall neoliberal strategy aimed at establishing social conditions more favorable to the current phase of capitalism where economic ends prevail over cultural norms. …”
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Real-Time Optimal Approach and Capture of ENVISAT Based on Neural Networks by Hongjue Li, Yunfeng Dong, Peiyun Li

“…Then, Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks are designed to mimic this optimal control strategy from the generated data. Compared with a traditional controller, the neural network controller is able to generate real-time high-quality control policies by simply passing the input through the feedforward neural network.…”
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Fast Single Pbase Algoritbm for Utility Mining in Big Data by Junqiang Liu, Qingfeng Zhou, Wenhui Wang, Lei Shi

“…Most of the latest works on utility mining generates a huge number of candidates in dealing with big data,which suffers from the scalability issue.Some work does not generate candidates,but suffers from the efficiency issue due to lack of strong pruning and high computation overhead.A novel algorithm that finds high utility patterns in a single phase without generating candidates was proposed.The novelties lie in a prefix growth strategy with strong pruning,and a sparse matrix based representation of transactions with pseudo projection.The proposed algorithm works in a depth first manner and does not materialize high utility patterns in memory,which further improves the scalability.Extensive experiments on synthetic and rea1-world data show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the latest works in terms of running time,memory overhead,and scalability.…”
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Current Controversies in Newer Therapies to Treat Birth Asphyxia by Pia Wintermark

“…Unfortunately, this neuroprotective strategy seems efficient in preventing brain injury in some asphyxiated newborns, but not in all of them. …”
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Field Symptoms of Boron Toxicity and Deficiency in Florida Peanuts by Jacque W. Breman, William D. Thomas, Henry E. Jowers, Rao S. Mylavarapu

“…This 4-page fact sheet reviews the boron management strategy in Florida, presents information on boron sufficiency and toxicity levels from the literature, and provides photographs of field symptoms that can be used by growers and extension agents. …”
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Pulse Width Modulation Control of Mecanum-Wheeled Mobile Robot With Random Noise by Ruijie Yin, Zhaojing Wu, Likang Feng

“…As a preliminary, PWM strategy of random nonlinear systems is obtained by the aid of the functional analysis tool. …”
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ЦЕНТР КОЛЛЕКТИВНОГО ПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ «ФИЗИКА И ТЕХНОЛОГИИ НАНОСТРУКТУР»: ФУНКЦИИ И ЗАДАЧИ by Valeriy G. Sozanov, Aleksandr P. Bliev, Tamerlan T. Magkoev

“…It is shown that adhering to the federal development strategy of CCU net, the North-Ossetian center on the basis of equipment acquiring scientific infrastructure development and attracting youth to science, takes a significant place in realization of priority directions of scientific-technological complex of Russia development, solving the priority scientific tasks, preparation of personnel of higher qualification and creation of the elements of innovative educational environment for higher education.…”
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