In the current multimedia networked infrastructure, privacy breaches due to cyber-attacks result in huge economic losses. Despite these threats there is ever increasing demand to share data over ...various insecure networks for accomplishment of numerous tasks. In such a scenario there is a greater need to develop new algorithms for strengthening the existing cybersecurity frameworks, ensure security, privacy, copyright protection and authentication of data. In this paper a new technique for copyright protection, data security and content authentication of multimedia images is presented. The copyright protection of the media is taken care of by embedding a robust watermark using an efficient inter-block coefficient differencing algorithm and is proposed as Scheme I. Scheme II has been utilized to ensure both copyright protection, and content authentication. The authentication of the content has been ensured by embedding a fragile watermark in spatial domain while as copyright protection has been taken care of utilizing a robust watermark. In order to thwart an adversary and ensure that it has no access to actual embedded data, we make use of a novel encryption algorithm in conjunction with Arnold transform to encrypt data prior to its embedding. The experimental results reveal that the proposed framework offers high degree of robustness against single/dual/triple attacks; with Normalized Correlation (NCC), more than or equal to 0.95. Besides, the fragile watermark embedding makes the system capable of tamper detection and localization with average BER more than 45% for all signal processing/geometric attacks. The average PSNR achieved for both schemes is greater than 41 dB. A comparison of the proposed framework with various state-of-the-art techniques demonstrate its effectiveness and superiority.
•Dual watermarking based system for privacy protection and content authentication of multimedia.•High robustness, offering threat identification and localization.•Preservation of stego image’s quality via strong coefficient correlation between two selected neighborhood blocks.•Highly robust to both singular and hybrid attacks.
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Hydroxyapatite (HA) powders were prepared via chemical solution through aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide and phosphoric acid. The calcium precursor was extracted from the calcium ...carbonate of Corbiculacea shells while the phosphate precursor originated from the commercially available phosphoric acid. The final product of HA powders is then manipulated through the sintering process at 500°C while the other sample was used as it is. XRD result shows significant changes in its crystallinity, crystallite size and lattice parameters after the sintering process. By sintering the HA, the crystallite size and crystallinity were increases as much as 6.25% and 5.31% respectively. SEM on the other hand showed different morphology for both sintering and non-sintering HA powders. For the sintering HA, the grains size is higher which is 5.00μm compared to non-sintering HA which is 3.91μm due to the agglomeration.
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Control of COVID-19 depends on the potential vaccine and its successful delivery to a large portion of the population ...to develop herd immunity. All the governments have made a robust plan to distribute the vaccine to their people, but many countries could not achieve adequate vaccination coverage. Hence, this study explores people's beliefs and barriers to vaccination and provides valuable inputs to the government to attain adequate vaccination.
To know the knowledge level about the COVID-19 vaccine among the residents of KSA. To find out the various concerns (beliefs) about COVID-19 and its vaccine among the residents of KSA. To estimate the vaccine acceptance and understand the barriers to accepting the COVID-19 vaccine among residents of KSA.
A web-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2021 in a restricted environment on the adult (>18 years) residents of Saudi Arabia. The minimum calculated sample was 685; 796 study samples were finally studied to minimize the sampling error. Snowball sampling was used to select the study samples, after meeting the inclusion criteria.
A total of 796 people responded. Only 782 (98.2%) were finally considered after excluding the incomplete information forms. The selected participant's age ranges from 18 years to 80 years. Almost 723 (92%) of the study group knew COVID vaccines. Most of the participants, 370 (47%), preferred USA-manufactured vaccine followed by Saudi Arabia 217 (28%). A total of 259 (33.1%) participants were hesitant to receive the vaccine. Out of 782, half of the participants, 386 (50%), believed the COVID vaccine will prevent the infection.
The government must implement appropriate culturally accepted interventional vaccination educational campaigns to remove the beliefs, worries regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, to increase vaccine acceptance rates.
Aims Unexpected decompensation of PHTRs may surprise, when the patient is at home. If the PHTR lives a distance from transplant center, the task of identifying risk factors of allograft ...rejection/dysfunction falls primarily on the PCP in the PCC, whether or not they are knowledgeable toward pediatric heart‐transplantation. Methods We reviewed the medical reports of three heart‐transplanted children in our periphery clinic between the years 2005 and 2019. Results The unexpected death of one patient, hours after he left our health facility, was the impetus for writing this article. Another heart transplant child attended our periphery clinic for 774 visits. Majority of visits were casual, others were scheduled, and the rest were for administrative affairs. We referred the PHTR to the transplantation center in 9% of all visits. In remaining 91% visits, we handled problems locally. Conclusions One of the important lessons we have learned through handling the PHTR at the PCC is that, during daily workflows and dealing with the occasional visits of a heart transplant child, related critical clinical information to allograft rejection or its dysfunction can easily evade from awareness of the attending physician. Through this study, we demonstrated that a program of summoning the PHTR to “initiated monthly visits” at the PCC enables the PCP to be maximally aware of critical clinical information, in addition to limiting futile referrals of 91% of the visits to specialized centers, without adversely affecting the prognosis.
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Bone tissue scaffold had been ventured for over the decades as a solution for bone failure and trauma. Starch is the most common natural polymer that has been used as a biomaterials and a good ...candidate for scaffold fabrication as there are many resources of starch in Malaysia. Native starches may contribute differently in their structure in terms of the amylose content, interactions between granules, swelling ability and solubility in which those differences can be mainly due to the botanical origin. In Malaysia, there are various resources of rice starches. Here, the Bario rice starch from Sarawak was used to fabricate the scaffold via solvent casting and salt leaching technique. Bario rice is usually collected from various sources and variety which may contribute to different physical affect in comparison of using other type of rice. From the study, the morphologies and microstructures of the scaffold were evaluated using Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) and this showed no trend of pore size increment when starch percentage varied. Then, the dielectric properties were obtained via the values of dielectric constant and dielectric loss which are another type of indirect measurement to study the porosity of the scaffolds. The porosity has the value of the dielectric constant and the loss air matrix whereby this air matrix is represented by the pore in the scaffold. Here, the results were consistent with the observation made through SEM. Thus, the relationship between the porosity and the dielectric properties of the Bario Rice Starch-nHA tissue scaffolds had been established and there were no particular pattern could be concluded by using Bario rice for this scaffold.
High-precision HERA data corresponding to a luminosity of around 1 fb−1 have been used in the framework of eeqq contact interactions (CI) to set limits on possible high-energy contributions beyond ...the Standard Model to electron-quark scattering. Measurements of the inclusive deep inelastic cross sections in neutral and charged current ep scattering were considered. The analysis of the ep data has been based on simultaneous fits of parton distribution functions including contributions of CI couplings to ep scattering. Several general CI models and scenarios with heavy leptoquarks were considered. Improvements in the description of the inclusive HERA data were obtained for a few models. Since a statistically significant deviation from the Standard Model cannot be established, limits in the TeV range were set on all models considered.
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The problem of open-shop scheduling includes a set of activities which must be performed on a limited set of machines. The goal of scheduling in open-shop is the presentation of a scheduled program ...for performance of the whole operation, so that the ending performance time of all job operations will be minimised. The open-shop scheduling problem can be solved in polynomial time when all nonzero processing times are equal, becoming equivalent to edge coloring that has the jobs and workstations as its vertices and that has an edge for every job-workstation pair with a nonzero processing time. For three or more workstations, or three or more jobs, with varying processing times, open-shop scheduling is NP-hard. Different algorithms have been presented for open-shop scheduling so far. However, most of these algorithms have not considered the machine maintenance problem. Whilst in production level, each machine needs maintenance, and this directly influences the assurance reliability of the system. In this paper, a new genetic-based algorithm to solve the open-shop scheduling problem, namely OSGA, is developed. OSGA considers machine maintenance. To confirm the performance of OSGA, it is compared with DGA, SAGA and TSGA algorithms. It is observed that OSGA performs quite well in terms of solution quality and efficiency in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The results support the efficiency of the proposed method for solving the open-shop scheduling problem, particularly considering machine maintenance especially in SMEs’.
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Production of exclusive dijets in diffractive deep inelastic
e
±
p
scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 372 pb
-
1
. The measurement was ...performed for
γ
∗
–
p
centre-of-mass energies in the range
90
<
W
<
250
GeV
and for photon virtualities
Q
2
>
25
GeV
2
. Energy flows around the jet axis are presented. The cross section is presented as a function of
β
and
ϕ
, where
β
=
x
/
x
I
P
,
x
is the Bjorken variable and
x
I
P
is the proton fractional longitudinal momentum loss. The angle
ϕ
is defined by the
γ
∗
–dijet plane and the
γ
∗
–
e
±
plane in the rest frame of the diffractive final state. The
ϕ
cross section is measured in bins of
β
. The results are compared to predictions from models based on different assumptions about the nature of the diffractive exchange.
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