Recent advances in wireless networking technologies, along with ubiquitous sensing and computing, have brought significant convenience for location-based services. The localization issue in wireless sensor networks under the nonadversarial scenario has already been well studied. However, most existing localization schemes cannot provide satisfied performance under the adversarial scenario. In t...

Several analytical models have been developed to solve the integrated production distribution problems in Supply Chain Management (SCM). In certain multi-stage service supply chain like blood banks, the term ‘production’ is referred as collection. It is often crucial to consider the inventory and distribution costs for successful decision making in multi-stage service supply chain. In this pape...

in order to investigate some silvicultural and soil physico-chemical characteristics of christ's thorn (ziziphus spina christi l. desf.) natural stands, ten natural stands of the tree species which have similar climate and aspects were selected and altitude from sea level (asl), the thickest sprout collar diameter (tscd) and total tree height (th) of the tree species were measured in 1000 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether an FFQ can be used for assessing exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) by estimating MeHg intake from seafood consumption using the FFQ and confirming the accuracy of the estimated value. DESIGN Seafood consumption of pregnant women was assessed using the FFQ. Total mercury (T-Hg) concentrations of maternal red blood cells (RBC) and hair were measured as exposure indic...

Low rank and sparse representation (LRSR) with dual-dictionaries-based methods for detecting anomalies in hyperspectral images (HSIs) are proven to be effective. However, the potential anomaly dictionary is vulnerable being contaminated by background pixels above methods, this limits effect of detection (HAD). In paper, a dual dictionaries construction method via two-stage complementary decisio...

Zinc oxide thin films were deposited on soda-lime glass substrates from an aqueous zinccontaining complex by two-stage chemical deposition (TSCD) method. Longmuir adsorption model showed that the adsorption of atoms on the surface of the substrate was typically physical. The relation between the fractional coverage, θ, with the equilibrium constant of the adsorption reaction was nonlinear indic...

Two-stage chemical deposition (TSCD) technique is used to produce ZnO, Mn2O3 and NiO films on soda-lime glass (SL-G) from an aqueous solution of zinc, manganese and nickel complex, respectively. The TSCD method enables the deposition of metal oxide thin films with a thickness which can be controlled during the preparation procedure. The ZnO, Mn2O3 and NiO thin films were polycrystalline films w...

Although there are several techniques that video encoders may use to improve error resilience, it is largely recognized that intra coding refreshment plays a major role. This technique is especially useful for video encoders that rely on predictive (inter) coding to remove temporal redundancy because, in these conditions, the decoded quality can decay very rapidly due to error propagation if er...

where λ is the Lagrange multiplier and ψ = 0 the holonomic constraint. The first practical algorithm for constrained dynamics was called SHAKE [3]. In this algorithm the Lagrange multiplier was calculated from the viewpoint, that no exact discrete solution could be obtained. Thus the constraints were satisfied by inserting the discrete propagator into the holonomic constraint, ψ(t+ h) = 0. This...