A digital watermark embeds an imperceptible signal into data such as audio, video and images, for a variety of purposes, including captioning and copyright control. As watermarking is increasingly used for a wide variety ∗Portions of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of SPIE, Human Vision & Electronic Imaging II, V 3016, pp 92-99, February 1997. Portions are reprinted, with permission, fro...

background: non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in humans. the role of ultraviolet radiation is well-known in the pathogenesis of basal cell carcinoma (bcc) and squamous cell carcinoma (scc). cd10 is a zinc-dependent metallopeptidase known as common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (calla). although cd10 expression has been investigated in some cutaneous tumors, to o...

This paper discusses issues of electronic journal readability It identi es some of the tech niques that human beings have evolved for reading and skimming paper based journals An attempt is made to identify those manual techniques which could be constructively replicated in electronic form Consideration is also given to the additional functionality provided by online journals and how this can b...

A Resource from Improving Chronic Illness Care This information is current as of February 2007. Does The Chronic Care Model Work? CDROM www.improvingchroniccare.org Slide 1 In this discussion of the Chronic Care Model (CCM) chronic illness is defined very broadly: any condition that requires ongoing activities and response from patients and their personal caregivers, as well as a response from ...

ISI@ is introducing a new version of the Science Citation hdex~ (MW ) on compact disc read-onlymemory (CD-ROM), A unique feature of the SCf Compact Disc Edition is its “related records” function. This feature, created by “bibliographic coupling, ” allows the user to examine relationships between papers based on the cited references that they share. The SC1 CD Eiiirion brings a creative, intuiti...

This paper reports on the experimetal English classes that the author conducted in the 2010 fiscal year. The material was prepared by combining The Feynman Lectures on Physics (CD-ROM) and Audacity, a freely available sound editor. Students are expected to make a “virtual attendance” to a series of lectures on physics delivered in 1961–63 at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) by R...

The EU concerted action TELRI has released a two-volume CD-ROM, which contains multilingual language resources, namely corpora, lexica, and tools for language engineering. This CD-ROM provides harmonised resources for unprecedented numbers and kinds of languages, mainly from non-EU countries, for which such resources still tend to be scarce. The first volume of the CD-ROM includes the aligned t...

Despite many problems, researchers in the developing nations manage to produce a significant portion of the world’s scientific output. Imagine what these scientists could contribute to the global community if their difficulties could be reduced. The introduction of advanced technologies (such as CDROM) will likely improve scientific communication and education in the developing nations. But jus...

An information retrieval (IR) test collection is used to evaluate the performance of IR systems. It is a helpful and powerful tool for investigation of the developing systems and the developed systems. CIRB030 (Chinese Information Retrieval Benchmark, version 3.0) test collection is such kind of test collection, which is designed to be used for evaluation of Chinese document retrieval. There ar...