One of the things that initially attracted me to Buddhist thought and practices was the widespread description of Buddhism as the Middle Path or the Middle Way, denoting a central course between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence arrived at by the Buddha in his years of practice. Philosophically, I have also become increasingly impressed with the teachings of one of the major schools of ...

This paper presents a methodology based on the collocation multiquadric radial basis functions to analyze the static and dynamic behavior of isotropic rectangular plates. The inertia and dissipative terms are evaluated by employing Newmark implicit time marching scheme. The spatial discretization of the differential equations generates greater number of algebraic equations than the unknown coef...

© 2016, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 4.45 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 761 REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING BY HISTOGRAM MODIFICATION FOR IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT Silpa Rajan1, Minu Lalitha Madhavu2 1Silpa Rajan, Pursuing Mtech at Sree Buddha college of Engineering , Pattoor, Kerala, India 2Minu Lalitha Madhavu , Assistant Professor , Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, Sree Buddha Colle...

Abstract With exquisite design and unique style, the painted sculptures of Tutang Buddha two attendants in Jingyin Temple are precious cultural heritages China. The sculpture Buddha, which was carved from a mound by ancient craftsmen, rarely found However, due to natural human factors, were severely damaged. Obviously, they require urgent appropriate protection restoration. In this study, sampl...

Developments in scientific and medical understanding of disability, as well as an influx of war-disabled veterans in 1914, led to transforming societal attitudes towards those with physical deformities. Thus, scholars suggest that the beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the sudden decline of freak shows as a popular form of entertainment. Whilst freak shows undeniably became less popul...

Freak waves are extreme ocean waves that are not predicted by traditional wave probability distributions. We study wave energy focusing, as a possible mechanism for freak wave formation, in a three-dimensional (3D) Numerical Wave Tank (NWT) solving fully nonlinear potential ow equations. The NWT combines a higher-order 3D-BEM and a Mixed-Eulerian-Lagrangian time updating of the free surface, ba...

I suggest that the factor pj in the pocket-based measure of the multiverse, Pj = pjfj, should be interpreted as accounting for equilibrium de Sitter vacuum fluctuations, while the selection factor fj accounts for the number of observers that were formed due to non-equilibrium processes resulting from such fluctuations. I show that this formulation does not suffer from the problem of freak obser...

We thank the anonymous referee #1 for the positive and constructive remarks. Just like the referee, we struggled to improve and simplify the presentation of the technical results. In section 2 we tried to illustrate in a simple way the role of coherence by considering the (weak) pseudo-maximal signals. Then, to justify the use of the wavelet transform, we showed how the coherence of phase infor...