0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E ground. We agree with F.G. Harold’s concept of “optimal heterophily”1 and use the term software engineering to include information technology. Y2K presented a formidable (albeit welldefined) challenge: find the date problems and fix them (see our “Congratulations” in the accompanying sidebar). Post-Y2K presents a more formidable challenge: a...

Image transmission with JPEG2000 can be speeded up by using regions of interest (RoIs). By such a mechanism, parts of an image not belonging to RoIs can be transmitted later or encoded at a lower bit rate. This paper describes a flexible dynamic RoI-scheme which supports the definition and handling of arbitrarily-shaped RoIs in JPEG2000. The scheme supports the dynamic definition and prioritiza...

Mainstream Information Technology professionals have misunderstood the Pick environment for many years. The Pick environment has been conceived, designed and built with business solutions as its key driver. At its heyday there were over 3,000 business applications available across a very wide range of hardware platforms supporting from 1 to thousands of real time users. The tentative economic r...

With the increasing use of multimedia technologies, image compression requires higher performance as well as new features. To address this need in the speci®c area of still image encoding, a new standard is currently being developed, the JPEG2000. It is not only intended to provide rate-distortion and subjective image quality performance superior to existing standards, but also to provide funct...

The human visual system plays a key role in the final perceived quality of the compressed images. It is therefore desirable to allow system designers and users to take advantage of the current knowledge of visual perception and models in a compression system. In this paper, we review the various tools in JPEG-2000 that allow its users to exploit many properties of the human visual system such a...

Die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Gestaltung der MenschComputer-Interaktion sind mit den alten Modellen der Mensch-ComputerInteraktion nicht zu bewältigen. Der Bedarf nach Modellen begreifbarer, mobiler, pervasiver, ubiquitärer Interaktion für augmentierte oder gemischte Welten wächst. In diesem Positionspapier mache ich aus der Sicht der Tätigkeitstheorie Anmerkungen zum Problem der Abst...

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Takahashi R, Ishii A, Matsubayashi RN, Nakagawa S, Akashi M, et al. (2015) Breast Cancer Adjacent to Nodular Fasciitis: A Case Report. Clin Med Rev Case Rep 2:057 Received: July 20, 2015: Accepted: September 10, 2015: Published: September 12, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Takahashi R. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...

Within the past decade several new fluoroquinolones (norfloxacin, enoxacin, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, pefloxacin, temafloxacin and lomefloxacin) have been introduced into therapy. All these agents share a broad spectrum of activity against a variety of pathogens which are covered with low concentrations of the compounds mentioned. Moreover, the quinolones share the advantage that they are so fa...

The absolutely continuous spectrum of an ergodic family of onedimensional Schrödinger operators is completely determined by the Lyapunov exponent as shown by Ishii, Kotani and Pastur. Moreover, the part of the theory developed by Kotani gives powerful tools for proving the absence of absolutely continuous spectrum, the presence of absolutely continuous spectrum, and even the presence of purely ...

Hiroyuki A. Torii,∗1 Y. Morishita,∗2 Y. Yamazaki,∗1,∗2 K. Komaki,∗1 K. Kuroki,∗1 R. Hutton,∗3 K. Ishii,∗4 K. Ando,∗2 H. Masuda,∗5 M. Sekiguchi,∗6 M. Hori,∗7 E. Widmann,∗7 and R. S. Hayano∗7 ∗1 Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus ∗2 Atomic Physics Laboratory, RIKEN ∗3 Department of Physics, University of Lund, Sweden ∗4 Department of Engineering Science, Kyoto University ∗5 ...