lipophilic yeast of the genus malassezia (pityrosporum) belongs to the normal flora of human skin and many warm-blooded animals. these fungi can produce a diverse range of diseases that the best known and most frequent of them is pityriasis versicolor, a chronic recurrent skin disease occurring primarily in tropical regions. the genus malassezia has been recently enlarged to include seven disti...

The rapid growth of multimedia technology has resulted in an enormous amount of data that needs to be managed and indexed efficiently to provide effective labeling for an image indexing system requires all objects in the image to be identified. To perform better and effective object identification, the process needs to be performed automatically and without priori knowledge of the image content...

In this paper, we present a modification of a closed-loop identification scheme known as the “Hansen scheme”. The advantage of the alternative procedure is that the order of the resulting model is tunable by the user.

This note derives some sufficient conditions to ensure that the whole switched nonlinear system is input-to-state stabilizable (ISS) when each mode is ISS. Both cases that the switchings of system modes coincide exactly and do not coincide with those of the corresponding controllers are considered. For the latter, a model-based identification scheme is used to identify the system modes. The pro...

We estimate the dynamics of a three equation model of the monetary transmission mechanism using data from 1970:Q1 to 1999:Q4. We find a significant break in the parameters of an estimated VAR in 1979:Q3 when Volcker took over as chairman of the Fed. We estimate a quasi-reduced form in which we allow for expectations to enter the private sector equations. We identify the private sector using the...

In 2004, Hwang et al. proposed an efficient user identification scheme based on ID-based cryptosystem. This paper will show that Hwang et al.’s scheme is not secure by presenting an forgery attack on them.