Distributed applications that deal with large multimedia objects spend much time to transmit data over network. Thus, reducing the transmission costs improve response time and system efficiency. One way to improve response time is reducing data size. Lossy compression techniques for multimedia data can decrease data size in charge of losing some information. Multimedia data is more tolerant to ...

Image based Steganography is the most popular method for message concealment. In this paper, two techniques are proposed for enhancing the message secrecy using image based steganography. The first technique is based on the use of punctuation marks to encode a secret message before embedding it into the image file. The second technique is based on the use of modified scytale cipher to hide a se...

Title: Low Prevalence of Lipid Metabolism Abnormalities in APOE ε2-genotype and Male Patients 60 years or older with Schizophrenia Authors: Chunxia Ban ([email protected]) Qunying Zhang ([email protected]) Jie Feng ([email protected]) Huijuan Li ([email protected]) Qi Qiu ([email protected]) Yuan Tian ([email protected]) Xia Li ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 29 Sep 2016 Author’s resp...

BACKGROUND The communication of probabilistic outcomes is an essential aspect of shared medical decision making. METHODS The authors conducted a qualitative study using focus groups to evaluate the response of women to various formats used in the communication of breast cancer risk. FINDINGS Graphic discrete frequency formats using highlighted human figures had greater salience than continu...

We studied people's perception of and response to a set of visual and auditory notifications issued in a multi-task environment. Primary findings show that participants' reactive preference ratings of notifications delivered in various contexts during experimentation appear to contradict their reflective, overall ratings of the notification formats when elicited independently of contextual info...

In science and philosophy, there is still no general agreement on what ‘consciousness’ is. But how do normal people (with no education in psychology or philosophy) use the term in their everyday life? What is the folk understanding of the word “conscious”? We conducted an online study on how the general public uses the word “consciousness” in their daily life. Participants (n=445) answered the ...