The Takomkane pro ject is a multiyear bed rock map ping pro gram ini ti ated by the Brit ish Co lum bia Geo log i cal Sur vey dur ing the 2005 field sea son. This pro gram is fo cused on Me so zoic arc vol ca nic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the vi cin ity of the Takomkane batholith, which strad dles the Bonaparte Lake (NTS 092P) and Quesnel Lake (NTS 093A) map sheets (Fig 1). P...

The concept of echo hiding was first proposed by Bender et al. in 1996 (Gruhl, Lu, & Bender, 1996). As a new technology, it is remarkably easy to materialize. In comparison to other audio watermarking techniques, echo hiding with many outstanding features is extensively adopted in various audio watermark applications. The conventional scheme of embedding watermarks on audio signals is to add ra...

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This paper deals with the parallel implementation of the back propagation of errors learning algorithm We propose two map ping schemes that allow to obtain two e cient parallel algorithms im plemented on the Meiko CS MIMD parallel computer The parallel algorithms obtained from the sequential code by means of simple and well localised modi cations are based on the use of a global operator whose ...

The aim of this study is to identify, clone and express a Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis specific immunogenic antigen candidate, in order to develop better reagents for diagnosis and vaccines for the protection of the host. Therefore, MAP2191 gene (a member of MAPmce5 operon) from MAP, was isolated and characterized by Bioinformatics tools and <e...

In this paper, a novel image compression scheme based on the moment preserving block truncation coding (MPBTC) scheme is proposed. In this scheme, three techniques are employed to cut down the bit rate of moment preserving block truncation coding. They are the two-dimensional prediction technique, the bit map omission technique, and the bit map coding using edge patterns. According to the exper...

Point pattern analysis of forest inventory stem-maps may aid interpretation and inventory estimation of forest attributes. To evaluate the techniques and benefits of conducting point pattern analysis of forest inventory stem-maps, Ripley’s K(t) was calculated for simulated tree spatial distributions and for over 600 USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots in Minnesota and ...