In this paper, we propose an enhanced stochastic bit reshuffling (SBR) scheme to deliver better subjective quality for fine granular scalable (FGS) video coding. Traditional bit-plane coding in FGS algorithm suffers from poor subjective quality due to zigzag and raster scanning order. To tackle this problem, our SBR rearranges the transmission order of each bit by its estimated rate-distortion ...

10 RRSBR An RNN-based robust signal bias removal (RRSBR) method is proposed for improving both the recognition performance and the computational efficiency of the SBR method for adverse Mandarin speech recognition. It differs from the SBR method in using three broadclass sub-codebooks to encode the feature vector of each frame and combining the three encoding residuals to form the frame-level s...

Introduction: Following a proximal small bowel resection (SBR), the intestine adapts by increased crypt depth and villus height compared to sham operated mice (transection and reanastomosis only). The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a known mediator of intestinal adaptation and results in activation of the GTPase Rac. This activates PAK (p21-activated protein kinase) which may activa...

The benefits of deammonification to remove nitrogen from sidestreams, i.e., sludge dewatering liquors, in municipal wastewater treatment plants are well accepted. ammonia removal liquors originated thermal hydrolysis/anaerobic digestion (THP/AD) deemed challenging. Many different commercial technologies have been applied varying reactor design, biomass growth form and instrumentation control st...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium vaccine strain expressing the saliva-binding region (SBR) of the Streptococcus mutans antigen I/II adhesin, either alone or linked with the mucosal adjuvant cholera toxin A2 and B subunits (CTA2/B) and under the control of the anaerobically inducible nirB promoter, in indu...

We consider the online list accessing problem and present a new family of competitive-optimal deterministic list update algorithms which is the largest class of such algorithms known to-date. This family, called Sort-by-Rank (sbr), is parametrized with a real 0 1, where sbr(0) is the Move-to-Front algorithm and sbr(1) is equivalent to the Timestamp algorithm. The behaviour of sbr() mediates bet...

We report the successful implementation of a surface-wave enabled dark-field aperture (SWEDA) directly on a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor sensor pixel (2.2mum). This SWEDA pixel allows predetection cancellation of a uniform coherent background. We show that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the SWEDA pixel is better than that of a single undressed pixel over a significant range of si...

Aerobic granulation of activated sludge was successfully achieved in a full-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with 50,000 m(3) d(-1) for treating a town's wastewater. After operation for 337 days, in this full-scale SBR, aerobic granules with an average SVI30 of 47.1 mL g(-1), diameter of 0.5 mm, and settling velocity of 42 m h(-1) were obtained. Compared to an anaerobic/oxic plug flow (A/O)...