Introduction The field of veterinary syndromic surveillance (VSS) is developing fast, with countries exploring a great variety of data sources [1]. After implementing two VSS systems we have demonstrated that the steps from classified data to full system implementation can be streamlined, and published a guideline for implementation [2]. All the steps described have been made available in an R ...

We show that the statement “every universally Baire set of reals has perfect property” is equiconsistent modulo ZFC with existence a cardinal we call virtually Shelah for supercompactness (VSS). These cardinals resemble and Shelah-for-supercompactness but are much weaker: if exists then every Silver indiscernible VSS in L. also , where pointclass all sets reals, -reflecting cardinal.

Visual Cryptography is a new Cryptography technique which is used to secure the images. In Visual Cryptography the Image is divided into parts called shares and then they are distributed to the participants. The Decryption side just stacking the share images gets the image. The initial model developed only for the bi-level or binary images or monochrome images. Later it was advanced to suit for...

Blind equalization is a technique for adaptive equalization of a communication channel without the use of training sequence. Although the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) is one of the most popular adaptive blind equalization algorithms, because of using fixed step size it suffers from slow convergence rate. A novel enhanced variable step size CMA algorithm (VSS-CMA) based on autocorrelation of...

Simultaneous anaerobic and aerobic degradation pathways in two-chamber, tubular microbial fuel cells (MFCs) facilitated pentachlorophenol (PCP) mineralization by a mediator-less biocathode. PCP was degraded at a rate of 0.263 ± 0.05 mg/L-h (51.5 mg/g VSS-h) along with power generation of 2.5 ± 0.03 W/m(3). Operating the biocathode MFC at 50°C improved the PCP degradation rate to 0.523 ± 0.08 mg...

This paper presents a non-interactive verifiable secret sharing scheme (VSS) tolerating a dishonest majority based on data predistributed by a trusted authority. As an application of this VSS scheme we present very efficient unconditionally secure multiparty protocols based on pre-distributed data which generalize two-party computations based on linear pre-distributed bit commitments. The main ...

− Variable Structure Systems (VSS) Theory, which is particularly well developed for tracking control of uncertain nonlinear systems, has inspired the scientists in developing solutions to ill-posed problems like the design of training criteria under a set of conditions and performance metrics. The underlying idea has been to exploit the invariance properties introduced by the theory together wi...