Modern engineering design often involves computation-intensive simulation processes and multiple objectives. Engineers prefer an efficient optimization method that can provide them insights into the problem, yield multiple good or optimal design solutions, and assist decision-making. This work proposed a rough-set based method that can systematically identify regions (or subspaces) from the ori...

One of the new features in the H.264/AVC encoder is the use of Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization (RDO) method during mode decision at the macroblock level. The RDO technique has been employed in H.264/AVC for intra-prediction mode selection to achieve better coding efficiency. But the computational complexity of mode decision algorithm is extremely high. To reduce the complexity of mode d...

IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) are now a days used extensively in our daily life, which provides the wide variety of multimedia applications like IPTV, video Conferencing, VOIP etc. IEEE 802.11e was developed by IEEE working group as an enhancement to IEEE 802.11 and it provides a prioritized and good service differentiation but could not able to provide the desired quality of...

The H.264/AVC standard uses an intra prediction, 9 directional modes for 4x4 luma blocks and 8x8 luma blocks, 4 directional modes for 16x16 macroblock and 8x8 chroma blocks, respectively. It means that, for a macroblock, it has to perform 736 different RDO calculation before a best RDO modes is determined. With this Multiple intra-mode prediction, intra coding of H.264/AVC offers a considerably...

Uncertainties are inherent in engineering problems due to various numerical modeling “imperfections’’ and due to the inevitable scattering of the design parameters from their nominal values. Under this perspective, there are two main optimal design formulations that account for the probabilistic response of structural systems: Reliability-based Design Optimization (RBDO) and Robust Design Optim...

Com o objetivo de aprofundar investigações anteriores, foram realizadas modificações superficiais diretas em eletrodos de diamante dopados com boro (DDB), com óxidos metálicos (PtO x , RuO 2 , IrO 2 e PbO 2 ) e com alguns compósitos mistos, utilizando a técnica Sol-Gel. Estes materiais foram estudados por microscopia de força atômica (MFA) e os resultados indicaram a formação de sítios de depos...

A influência da composição do eletrólito (ácido sulfúrico, ácido perclórico e suas misturas) sobre a cinética eletródica da reação de desprendimento de oxigênio (RDO) e a produção eletroquímica de ozônio (PEO) em eletrodo de β-PbO 2 , foi investigada empregando-se a espectroscopia de impedância eletroquímica e curvas de polarização quase-estacionárias. A análise dos espectros de impedância reve...

The Rat Genome Database (RGD;http://rgd.mcw.edu/) provides critical datasets and software tools to a diverse community of rat and non-rat researchers worldwide. To meet the needs of the many users whose research is disease oriented, RGD has created a series of Disease Portals and has prioritized its curation efforts on the datasets important to understanding the mechanisms of various diseases. ...

1. Abstract In engineering problems the randomness and uncertainties are inherent, thus the scatter of structural parameters from their nominal ideal values is unavoidable. Robust Design Optimization (RDO) methods primarily seek to minimize the influence of stochastic variations on the mean design, and traditionally rely on rough approximations of the stochastic response about the mean design. ...

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the new generation video compression standard. Sample adaptive offset (SAO) is a new compression tool adopted in HEVC which reduces the distortion between original samples and reconstructed samples. SAO estimation is the process of determining SAO parameters in video encoding. It is divided into two phases: statistic collection and parameters determination...