When visual sensor networks (VSNs) enter daily life in society, they not only bring great convenience but also cause people to worry about privacy. Traditional image encryption often displays the effect of snowflake encrypted images playing a part privacy protection, usability directly browsing taken by nodes VSNs is sacrificed. Recently, thumbnail-preserving (TPE) has been proposed balance and...

The article discusses the calibration results of reference standards-copies according to State Primary Standard Mass Unit using new CCL 1007 vacuum comparator and buoyancy artifacts. authors provided historical data on calibrations copies International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) starting from 1892, including Russian prototype № 12. instability kilogram No. 12 corresponds international values is a...

—Recently the developments of Ubiquitous Computing and Augmented Reality technologies have made many changes on the existing applications. However, the contents used in the applications have been not revised conceptually. Thus, an expansive representation of the contents is required to adapt resources to new computing environments, and to reflect new emerging features such as realism, mobility ...

The capacitated arc routing problem is an important NP-hard with numerous real-world applications. uncertainties refers to those instances where there are in decision variables, objective functions and/or constraints. captures situations much better than a static because few problems and certain. Uncertainties the pose new research challenges. Algorithms that work well for certain may not on ve...

The increasing computing demands of autonomous driving applications have driven the adoption multicore processors in real-time systems, which turn renders energy optimizations critical for reducing battery capacity and vehicle weight. A typical optimization method targeting traditional systems finds a speed under static deadline, resulting conservative savings that are unable to exploit dynamic...

The comparative in vitro activities of two new oxazolidinone antimicrobial agents, U-100592 and U-100766, against 180 isolates of enterococci representing several resistance profiles were examined by using an agar dilution technique. The two oxazolidinones inhibited all isolates, including strains resistant to vancomycin, ampicillin, and minocycline, at concentrations between 1 and 4 micrograms...

Modern vehicles can be thought of as complex distributed embedded systems that run a variety automotive applications with real-time constraints. Recent advances in the industry towards greater autonomy are driving to increasingly connected various external (e.g., roadside beacons, other vehicles), which makes emerging highly vulnerable cyber-attacks. Additionally, increased complexity and in-ve...