Background music is often used to generate a specific atmosphere or to draw our attention to specific events. For example in movies or computer games it is often the accompanying music that conveys the emotional state of a scene and plays an important role for immersing the viewer or player into the virtual environment. In view of home-made videos, slide shows, and other consumer-generated visu...

The development and investigation of medical applications require patient data from various Electronic Health Records (EHRs) or Clinical Records (CRs). However, in practice, patient data is and should be protected to avoid unauthorized access or publicity, because of many reasons including privacy, security, ethics, and confidentiality. Thus, many researchers and developers encounter the proble...

Many databases will or can not be disclosed without strong guarantees that no sensitive information can be extracted. To address this concern several data perturbation techniques have been proposed. However, it has been shown that either sensitive information can still be extracted from the perturbed data with little prior knowledge, or that many patterns are lost. In this paper we show that ge...

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are required for several tasks like generation of orthoimages, flood planning, erosion control, agriculture, generation of contour lines, visibility check, 3D-views and others. Mainly in developed countries DEMs are available, but not in any case like required. DEMs can be generated by traditional photogrammetry based on aerial photos if they are available and no...

Next generation sequencing platforms are producing biological sequencing data in unprecedented amounts. The partners of the International Nucleotide Sequencing Database Collaboration, which includes the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), have established the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) to prov...

Considerable effort is required to test software thoroughly. Even with automated test data generation tools, it is still necessary to evaluate the output of each test case and identify unexpected results. Manual effort can be reduced by restricting the range of inputs testers need to consider to regions that are more likely to reveal faults, thus reducing the number of test cases overall, and t...

In 1941, Andrei N. Kolmogorov predicted that, within all highly turbulent flows, there is a universal energy-conserving cascade whereby the energy of the large-scale eddies is transferred to finer and finer scales, down to the scales at which the energy is finally dissipated to heat. It is difficult to measure such a cascade directly, but related benchmark predictions for the statistical behavi...

64 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Pvt. Ltd. Abstract— This paper presents a secure scheme for generating a pseudo random numbers. The scheme is based on secret splitting of a piece of secure information which is used as a seed to the generator. In this scheme the procedure of splitting the secure information is performed according to a specified weight i...

Linked Data has emerged as the most widely used and the most powerful knowledge source for Question Answering (QA). Although Question Answering using Linked Data (QALD) fills in many gaps in the traditional QA models, the answers are still presented as factoids. This research introduces an answer presentation model for QALD by employing Natural Language Generation (NLG) to generate natural lang...

This paper utilizes the German Mikrozensus to model competing secondary school outcomes among both foreign and naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find that second generation disadvantage in educational attainment is largely explained by parental background. However, my study also finds evidence of higher atta...