Quick Response (QR) codes have been discussed in the literature as adding value to teaching and learning. Despite their potential in education, more research is needed to inform practice and advance knowledge in this field. This paper investigated the integration of the QR code in classroom activities and the perceptions of the integration by pre-service teachers. Forty-four pre-service teacher...

The Single Stimulus (SS) method is often chosen to collect subjective data testing no-reference objective metrics, as it is straightforward to implement and well standardized. At the same time, it exhibits some drawbacks; spread between different assessors is relatively large, and the measured ratings depend on the quality range spanned by the test samples, hence the results from different expe...

BACKGROUND Mitral valve repair for posterior mitral leaflet (PML) prolapse has been considered to be a standard treatment because of its high success rate and high level of patient satisfaction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical results of two different techniques of PML prolapse, quadrangular resection (QR) and chordal replacement (CR). MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects con...

The art of information hiding has become an important issue in the recent years as security of information has become a big concern in this internet era. Cryptography and Steganography play major role for secured data transfer. Steganography stands for concealed writing; it hides the message inside a cover medium. Cryptography conceals the content of a message by encryption. QR (Quick Response)...

OBJECTIVE Quick-release bromocriptine (bromocriptine-QR), a D2 dopamine receptor agonist, is indicated as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. The Cycloset Safety Trial, a 52-week, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial, evaluated the overall safety and cardiovascular safety of this novel therapy for type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 3,095 patients with type 2 diabetes ...

This paper introduces hybrid LU–QR algorithms for solving dense linear systems of the form Ax = b. Throughout a matrix factorization, these algorithms dynamically alternate LU with local pivoting and QR elimination steps based upon some robustness criterion. LU elimination steps can be very efficiently parallelized, and are twice as cheap in terms of floating-point operations, as QR steps. Howe...

The Q neuroblasts in Caenorhabditis elegans display left-right asymmetry in their migration, with QR and descendants on the right migrating anteriorly, and QL and descendants on the left migrating posteriorly. Initial QR and QL migration is controlled by the transmembrane receptors UNC-40/DCC, PTP-3/LAR, and the Fat-like cadherin CDH-4. After initial migration, QL responds to an EGL-20/Wnt sign...

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel (H) communication, when channel status information (CSI) is known to the receiver but not to the transmitter, the precoding technique can achieve a highly reliable communication link, when the receiver informs an optimal precoding matrix index to the transmitter based on current CSI. To select an optimal precoding matrix (F), the maximum capacity...

In this paper, the performance of quadratic residue (QR) codes of lengths within 100 is given and analyzed when the hard decoding, soft decoding, and linear programming decoding algorithms are utilized. We develop a simple method to estimate the soft decoding performance, which avoids extensive simulations. Also, a simulation-based algorithm is proposed to obtain the maximum likelihood decoding...

We describe the implementation of a Monte Carlo basin hopping (BH) global optimization procedure for prediction molecular crystal structures. The BH method is combined with quasi-random (QR) structure generation in hybrid prediction, QR-BH, which combines low-discrepancy sampling provided by QR sequences efficiency at locating low energy Through tests on set single-component crystals and co-cry...