The conventional parboiling of rough rice is a lengthy process that takes 24-28 h to complete. It would be beneficial to the industry if the processing time could be reduced. The objective of this study was to develop an ultrasound based one-step protocol for soaking and gelatinization during rice parboiling. The gelatinization temperature was measured by alkali (KOH) degradation and found to b...

This paper investigates the use of Structural Similaritys (SSIM) index on the minimized side effect to image watermarking. For fast implementation and more compatibility with the standard DCT based codecs, watermark insertion is carried out on the DCT coefficients and hence a SSIM model for DCT based watermarking is developed. For faster implementation, the SSIM index is maximized over independ...

Latent Overlapped fingerprints are frequently encountered in latent fingerprints lifted from crime scenes. Overlapping occurs when the same location of an object is touched by one or more fingers several times. It is necessary to separate such latent overlapped fingerprints into component fingerprints so that existing fingerprint matchers can recognize them. In fact, fingerprint examiners usual...

This paper studies the overlapped speech detection for improving the performance of the summed channel speaker recognition system in NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE). The speaker recognition system includes four main modules: voice activity detection, speaker diarization, overlapped speaker detection and speaker recognition. We adopt a GMM based overlapped speaker detection system, by ...

In this paper, we introduce a preprocessing technique for blind source separation of nonnegative and overlapped data. For nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), the classical method Naanaa Nuzillard (NN) requires condition that signals to be non-overlapping at certain locations, while they are allowed overlap with each other elsewhere. NN’s works well data possess stand-alone peaks (SAP...

JUST over one hundred years ago Robert Graves, in an address to medical students, wrote these words: "Be assured of this, that however accurate be your knowledge of anatomy, however skilful you may be in chemical theories and manipulations, however extensively you may have mastered botany, however well you are acquainted with the nature and properties of drugs-be assured, I say, that you have a...

In this paper, we focus on a “local property” of permutations: value-peak. A permutation σ has a value-peak σ(i) if σ(i − 1) < σ(i) > σ(i + 1) for some i ∈ [2, n − 1]. Define V P (σ) as the set of value-peaks of the permutation σ. For any S ⊆ [3, n], define V Pn(S) such that V P (σ) = S. Let Pn = {S | V Pn(S) 6= ∅}. we make the set Pn into a poset Pn by defining S T if S ⊆ T as sets. We prove t...

The feedback from architectural decisions to the elaboration of requirements is an established concept in the software engineering community. However, pinpointing the nature of this feedback in a precise way is a largely open problem. Often, the feedback is generically characterized as additional qualities that might be affected by an architect’s choice. This paper provides a practical perspect...