The current force structure debate has seen numerous strong public statements by Australia’s naval warfare lobbyists for a substantial and immediate growth in the RAN’s Anti-Air Warfare capabilities. There are strong underlying reasons for such statements, since recent deployments of advanced Russian built anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM) in effect threaten to make the RAN’s surface combatants ...

In one of the earliest publications on fingerprinting, Wagner defines “perfect fingerprinting” to include schemes such that any alteration to the marked object that makes the fingerprint unrecognizable must necessarily make the object unusable. Several modern fingerprinting schemes are based on the assumption that perfect fingerprinting of digital information is possible. This paper explores th...

Image processing applications exhibit an intrinsic degree of fault tolerance due to i) the redundant nature images, and ii) possible ability consumers application output effectively carry out their task even when it is slightly corrupted. In this scenario classical Duplication with Comparison (DWC) scheme, that rejects images (and requires re-executions) two replicas’ outputs differ in a per-pi...

We prove χs(G) ≤ 1.93∆(G) for graphs of sufficiently large maximum degree where χs(G) is the strong chromatic index of G. This improves an old bound of Molloy and Reed. As a by-product, we present a Talagrandtype inequality where it is allowed to exclude unlikely bad outcomes that would otherwise render the inequality unusable.

At a certain level of stimulation of the enzymatic secretions of the pancreas utilizing duodenal hormones and caerulein in normal subjects, the hourly urinary amylase output increases beyond normal values. Under these conditions, the so-called evocative pancreatic function test becomes unusable for the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis in the early stages.

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