The 4×4 approximate discrete cosine transform (DCT) of H.264/AVC [1] makes it difficult to transcode the pre-coded video contents with the previous video coding standards to H.264/AVC in DCT domain. This is due to the difference between 8×8 DCT used previous standards and 4×4 DCT in H.264/AVC. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm that converts the quantized 8×8 DCT block of MPEG-2 i...

Bu çalışmada HT-29, Hela ve MCF-7 hücre hatlarına karşı antikanser etki gösteren Cyclo(Tyr-Tyr) dipeptidinin olası en kararlı yedi konformasyonu tirozin aminoasilerinin χ yan zincir dihedral açılarına bağlı olarak konformasyon analizi yapılarak belirlenmiştir. Konformasyon sonrasında belirlenen konformasyonlara ait geometrik yapılar, zincire açıdaki değişimler konformerlerin toplam bağıl enerji...

A fast, degradation-free solution for the DCT block extraction problem is proposed. The problem is defined as extracting a DCT block from a DCT compressed frame composed of DCT blocks. This problem is encountered in both video/image manipulations in the compressed domain and transcodecs, for example, converting from MPEG to Motion JPEG. Traditionally, solutions involve using the pixel domain ma...

As powerful image editing tools are widely used, the demand for identifying the authenticity of an image is much increased. Copy-move forgery is one of the tampering techniques which are frequently used. Most existing techniques to expose this forgery need to improve the robustness for common post-processing operations and fail to precisely locate the tampering region especially when there are ...

Image retrieval is an important problem for accessing large image databases. In this paper, a content-based image retrieval method based on block DCT is proposed. Due to the energy compacting property and the ability of extracting the texture information, discrete cosine transform (DCT) is applied to extract low-level features from the images. Based on the observation that block DCT can reduce ...

We sought to assess whether the distal convoluted tubule (DCT) segment of the rabbit nephron expresses a functional epithelial sodium channel. First, the transepithelial voltage (V(te), lumen vs. bath) was measured in isolated perfused DCT segments (assessed separately in the upstream half and the downstream half of the DCT). V(te) was zero and not affected by amiloride or barium in the upstrea...

صخلملا Infertility affects 15% of couples seeking children worldwide and male factor is evident in about 30-50% of the cases. To assess the effect of sperm chromatin integrity on the outcomes of intracytoplasmic injection, sperm DNA compactness was evaluated by acridine orange staining in 40 fertile and 44 infertile men attending one infertility clinic. The results showed no significant differe...

صخلملا The search for novel anticancer drugs continues. This work includes a preliminary study of the effect of two crude extracts of Greek or Mediterranean sage (Salvia triloba L. f.) on three malignant human cell lines and one malignant murine cell line. A boiling water extract and a methanolic extract were prepared from dried leaves of S. triloba. Yields of extraction were 9.8 and 22.4%, res...

Catecholamine synthesis and transmission in the brain are influenced by the availability of Tyr in the body. In this study, we compared the effects of oral administration of Tyr-containing dipeptides Ile-Tyr, Ser-Tyr, and Tyr-Pro with Tyr alone on catecholamine metabolism in the mouse brainstem. Among these dipeptides, Ile-Tyr administration led to increases in dopamine, the dopamine metabolite...

We propose a computationally-efficient variant of the shapeadaptive discrete cosine transform (SA-DCT) currently considered for MPEG-4. Although the SA-DCT complexity is acceptable for 8 8 blocks, it is very high when complete regions are processed at once. To reduce the SA-DCT complexity, we replace its 1-D DCT with a quasi-DCT algorithm and we assure that the quasi-DCT basis functions are ver...