The paper deals with a new technique of fragile image watermarking. Proposed technique exploits inter-subband dependencies in order to minimize the influence of inserted watermark on the host image quality. Using the unique watermark based on the low-frequency subband, proposed scheme is resistant against attacks based on series of images analysis. Tampering detection ability of the proposed te...

This paper presents a newly developed optimization approach involving a modified shuffled frog leaping algorithm (MSFLA) applied for the solution of the economic emission load dispatch (EELD) problem. The approach utilizes the local search strategies for searching global solution. MSFLA is developed on the same frame work of shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA). In this proposed algorithm, a ...

Shuffled leap frog algorithm (SFLA) is a new nature-inspired intelligent algorithm, which uses the whole update and evaluation strategy on solutions. For solving multi-dimension function optimization problems, this strategy will deteriorate the convergence speed and the quality of solution of algorithm due to interference phenomena among dimensions. To overcome this shortage, a dimension by dim...

Many proteins can adopt self-propagating beta-sheet-rich structures, termed amyloid fibrils. The [URE3] and [PSI+] prions of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are infectious amyloid forms of the proteins Ure2p and Sup35p, respectively. Ure2p forms prions primarily as a result of its sequence composition, as versions of Ure2p with the prion domain amino acids shuffled are still able to form prions. Here ...

Animal mitochondrial genomes have provided large and diverse datasets for evolutionary studies. Here, the first two representative mitochondrial genomes from the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) were determined using next-generation sequencing. The sequenced region of these two mitochondrial genomes from the species Auplopus sp. and Agenioideus sp. was 16,746 bp long with an A + T con...

Discrete sequence analysis methods were applied to study spike-trains generated by the isolated neuron of the slowly adapting stretch receptor organ. Calculation of the algorithmic complexity and block entropies of digitized individual spike-train forms allowed us to distinguish different classes of neural behavior. While some spike-trains exhibited significant structure, others displayed diver...

Penicillin acylase (PA) from Escherichia coli can catalyze the acylation of 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), a conversion that is applicable in he biocatalytic preparation of semi-synthetic -lactam antibiotics such as ampicillin. The efficiency of this kinetically controlled conversion, in hich an amide or ester acts as the acyl donor, is dependent on the kinetic properties of the enzyme. To f...

Feature selection in cancer classification is a central area of research in the field of bioinformatics and used to select the informative genes from thousands of genes of the microarray. The genes are ranked based on T-statistics, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and F-test values. The swarm intelligence (SI) technique finds the informative genes from the top-m ranked genes. These selected genes a...