This paper presents a new semi-blind image watermarking system for medical applications. The new scheme utilizes Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to embed a textual data into original ...

Traditional explanations about the functions of religion are insufficient. Normally, the functions ascribed to religion by different theoretical frameworks are indistinctly performed by other subsystems. However, in Luhman's ...

Two main texts have guided this study: New music, outmoded music, style and idea, written by Arnold SCHOENBERG (1977b) in 1946, and System and idea, written by Pierre BOULEZ (1986) in 1986. Firstly, the concept of 'musical ...

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a potential candidate to substitute digital mammography in breast cancer screening. In DBT, projection images are acquired with low levels of radiation, which significantly increases ...

This study looks at the convergencies between the harmonic procedures in popular music, as expressed by the music of Hermeto Pascoal - a Brazilian composer born in 1936, and in classical music as represented by the harmonic ...

Individual projection images in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) must be acquired with low levels of radiation, which significantly increases image noise. This work investigates the influence of a denoising algorithm ...

Food additives are non-nutritive substances or compounds that are intentionally added to the food for a different purpose in its manufacturing, preparation, transformation, packaging, transportation or storage process, in ...

Lie group integrators preserve by construction the Lie group structure of a nonlinear configuration space. In multibody dynamics, they support a representation of (large) rotations in a Lie group setting that is free of ...