Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have grown in popularity as a network method. However, owing to the broadcast communication method and unsupervised deployment nature of WSNs, Sensor Nodes (SN) often becomes targets attackers. Due few processing energy resources, basic data aggregation methods such averaging are required. While it may prevent sensitive from being hacked, requires regular message...

This chapter details similarity discriminant analysis (SDA), a new framework for similaritybased classification. The two defining characteristics of the SDA classification framework are similarity-based and generative. The classifiers in this framework are similarity-based, because they classify based on the pairwise similarities of data samples, and they are generative, because they build clas...

Symbolic data analysis (SDA) has gained popularity over the past few years because of its potential for handling data having a dependent and hierarchical nature. Amongst many methods for analyzing SDA data, exploratory data analysis (EDA: Tukey, (1977)) with graphical presentation is an important one. Recent developments of graphical and visualization tools for SDA include zoom star, closed sha...

The distribution of vasopressin-immunoreactive fibers in the forebrain of male and female gerbils was studied, focusing on the lateral septum and the sexually dimorphic area (SDA) found at the border between the medial preoptic area and the anterior hypothalamus. To study hormonal influences on the densities of these fibers, some animals of each sex were gonadectomized or gonadectomized and giv...

A new mycological medium, Fishmeal Extract Dextrose Agar (FEDA) was developed using aqueous extract of fishmeal as a substitute for peptone and evaluated for its efficacy in supporting the growth of fungi commonly encountered in clinical specimens and in maintaining fungal stock cultures. Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophyte, Microsporum gypsium, Microsporum nanum, Epidermophyton flo...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to validate the performance of a seizure detection algorithm (SDA) developed by our group, on previously unseen, prolonged, unedited EEG recordings from 70 babies from 2 centres. METHODS EEGs of 70 babies (35 seizure, 35 non-seizure) were annotated for seizures by experts as the gold standard. The SDA was tested on the EEGs at a range of sensitivity s...

We quantified the specific dynamic action (SDA) resulting from the ingestion of various meal types in Burmese pythons (Python molurus) at 30 degrees C. Each snake was fed a series of experimental meals consisting of amino acid mixtures, simple proteins, simple or complex carbohydrates, or lipids as well as meals of whole animal tissue (chicken breast, beef suet, and mouse). Rates of oxygen cons...

Dietary supplementation of stearidonic acid (SDA; 18:4n-3) has been considered a possible strategy to increase n-3 unsaturated fatty acid content in ruminant products; however, little is known about its metabolism in the rumen. In vitro batch incubations were carried out with bovine ruminal digesta to investigate the metabolism of SDA and its biohydrogenation products. Incubation mixtures (4.5 ...

The lack of variation in antifungal drugs, and the misuse or inappropriate use usually causes resistant strains of the yeast in human’s normal flora. Unfortunately, a large number of Candida infection cases in immunosuppressed patients with insufficient treatment eventually can cause patient's death. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro conventional antifungal azole compounds with...