Information hiding in host data, or transparent digital watermarking, can be treated as an application of digital communications in which the hidden information is conveyed through a channel where the noise includes the host data and stems from other sources. The amount of information to be hidden is called the payload. At the detector, the hidden information (the watermark) should be retrieved...

We examined the impact of expiratory muscle strength training on maximum expiratory pressure, cough spirometry, and disease progression in a 71-year-old male with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Maximum expiratory pressure declined 9% over an 8-week sham training period, but subsequently improved by 102% following 8 weeks of expiratory muscle strength training. Improvements in cough spirometry a...

Due to the rapid growth of data mining technology, obtaining private data on users through this technology becomes easier. Association Rules Mining is one of the data mining techniques to extract useful patterns in the form of association rules. One of the main problems in applying this technique on databases is the disclosure of sensitive data by endangering security and privacy. Hiding the as...

Say that an elementary embedding j : N → M is cardinal preserving if CAR = CAR = CAR. We show that if PFA holds then there are no cardinal preserving elementary embeddings j : M → V . We also show that no ultrapower embedding j : V → M induced by a set extender is cardinal preserving, and present some results on the large cardinal strength of the assumption that there is a cardinal preserving j...

In recent years, adductor canal block (ACB) has been introduced as an alternative for femoral nerve block with a great advantage of preserving or minimally reducing quadriceps strength. The technique is relatively easy and is performed under ultrasound guidance. Despite growing evidence regarding efficacy and safety of ACB following knee surgery, use of ACB is still limited to high volume ortho...

A new algorithm for computing the maximum entropy ranking over models is presented. The algorithm handles arbitrary sets of propositional defaults with associated strength assignments and succeeds whenever the set satisfies a robustness condition. Failure of this condition implies the problem may not be sufficiently specified for a unique solution to exist. This work extends the applicability o...