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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Block and Gray-Level Histogram Based Watermarking Scheme
As one of the crucial problems in watermarking, robustness against geometric distortion and JPEG compression becomes more than challenging and problematic. In this paper, a robust watermarking scheme based on ...
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Melatonin Treatment Protects Against Acute Spinal Cord Injury-Induced Disruption of Blood Spinal Cord Barrier in Mice
The spinal cord microcirculation plays a critically important role in maintaining the normal function of spinal cord neurons, glial cells, and axons. Previous researches were largely focused on improved neurol...
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Effects of lipid-lowering pharmaceutical clofibrate on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellal Val.) fed with the high non-protein energy diets
This study investigated the effects of clofibrate treatment on blood lipids, hepatic enzyme activities and relative expression of genes involved in lipid metabolism of grass carp fed with high non-protein ener...
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Open AccessOxyR-regulated catalase CatB promotes the virulence in rice via detoxifying hydrogen peroxide in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
To facilitate infection, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the bacterial blight pathogen of rice, needs to degrade hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generated by the host defense response via a mechanism that is mediat...
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Fat deposition pattern and mechanism in response to dietary lipid levels in grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idellus
This study aimed to evaluate the fat deposition pattern and lipid metabolic strategies of grass carp in response to dietary lipid levels. Five isonitrogenous diets (260 g kg−1 crude protein) containing five dieta...
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Modulation of appetite, lipid and glucose metabolism of juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) by different dietary protein levels
This study was undertaken to explore the systemic metabolic strategies of juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) to maintain growth when fed with different dietary protein levels. The optimal growth group...
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Effects of fasting, temperature, and photoperiod on preproghrelin mRNA expression in Chinese perch
Preproghrelin, a gut/brain peptide, plays an important role in the regulation of food intake and energy homeostasis in teleost and mammals. In the present study, we obtained the full-length preproghrelin cDNA in ...
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Open AccessDNA Methylation of T1R1 Gene in the Vegetarian Adaptation of Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella
Although previous studies have indicated importance of taste receptors in food habits formation in mammals, little is known about those in fish. Grass carp is an excellent model for studying vegetarian adaptat...
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RegFrame: fast recognition of simple human actions on a stand-alone mobile device
In recent years, human action recognition in videos has become an active research topic, being applied in surveillance, security, somatic games, interactive operations, etc. Since most human action recognition...
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Integrated exosomal miRNA and transcriptome analysis of brain microvascular endothelial cells in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Endothelial cells, which regulate arterial stiffness via endothelial-derived substances, are independently and strongly associated with hypertension. However, the exact roles of exosome miRNAs from brain endot...
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Differential miRNA expression analysis of extracellular vesicles from brain microvascular pericytes in spontaneous hypertensive rats
This study is to explore the exact roles of extracellular vesicle (EVs) miRNAs from brain microvascular pericytes in the pathogenesis of hypertension.
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Adaptive segmentation-based feature extraction and S-STDM watermarking method for color image
A local color image watermarking scheme using adaptive segmentation-based feature extraction (ASFE) and singular value decomposition-based spread transform dither modulation (S-STDM) is proposed in this paper....
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Gram–Schmidt Orthogonalization-Based Audio Multiple Watermarking Scheme
This paper proposes an audio multi-watermarking scheme based on Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization. A random signal generator is applied to the host audio signal to generate the target segment for the local waterm...
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A dual-tamper-detection method for digital image authentication and content self-recovery
This paper proposes an approach to protect image content against malicious tampering based on watermarking technology. The watermark is composed of two kinds of check bits which are used for tampered region lo...
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Effectors, chaperones, and harpins of the Type III secretion system in the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora: a review
Erwinia amylovora is a plant pathogenic bacterium that causes the disease fire blight in a wide range of Rosaceous plants including apples and pears. This pathogen utilizes the hypersensitive response and pathoge...
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FD-TR: feature detector based on scale invariant feature transform and bidirectional feature regionalization for digital image watermarking
In this paper we propose the FD-TR: Feature Detector Based on Scale Invariant Feature Transform and Bidirectional Feature Regionalization for digital image watermarking. The Scale Invariant Feature Transform m...
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Open AccessProducing and detecting long-lived particles at different experiments at the LHC
We propose a new strategy to look for long-lived particles (LLP) at the LHC. The LLPs are produced at one experiment, but its decay products are detected by a detector at another experiment. We use a confining...
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RS-chain: a decentralized reputation-sharing framework for group-buying industry via hybrid blockchain
Group-buying is an intriguing e-commerce model that aims to recruit more participants to generate sufficient orders to establish a low-price foundation. It appears to be a good model for both sellers and buyer...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Noise Convolution Network for Tampering Detection
The vulnerability of digital images to tampering is an ongoing information security issue in the multimedia field. Thus, identifying tampered digital images and locating the tampered regions in the images can ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RA-Net: A Deep Learning Approach Based on Residual Structure and Attention Mechanism for Image Copy-Move Forgery Detection
To reduce the difficulty of image forensics on forgery images, in this paper, we present an efficient end-to-end deep learning approach using Residual Structure and Attention Mechanism (RA-Net) for image copy-...
