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The study on the estimation of vehicles speed using a dashboard camera
Mobile and handheld electronic products such as smartphones and dashboard cameras are frequently used to record occurrences of traffic accidents nowadays. Most existing studies require at least one entire lane...
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Oxidation and internal nitridation behaviors of a Ni-based superalloy Rene 65 during high-temperature homogenization
Homogenization heat treatment is a key process to remove the micro-segregation and re-dissolve the undesired phases for wrought superalloy. The oxidation behavior of the wrought superalloy during the high-temp...
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Effects of Cu and In on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of Sn-20Bi/Cu solder joints
The effects of Cu and In additives on the tensile strength, interfacial reaction, and shear strength of the Sn-20Bi solder system are investigated. The Sn-20Bi-xCu-yIn (x = 0.3, 0.5 wt.%, y = 1, 2, 3 wt.%) all...
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Role of radiative and convective heat transfer during heating of an ingot product in a tubular furnace: experiment and simulation
Convective heat transfer and radiative heat transfer are two essential heat transfer modes in the heating process of steel; it is important to understand the role of them during the heating process clearly. Th...
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A fast source camera identification and verification method based on PRNU analysis for use in video forensic investigations
Due to the rapid development of digital and cloud technologies, everyone can easily shoot and spread digital videos via email or social media. However, it is difficult for law enforcement to trace the origin o...
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Photoacoustic imaging-guided chemo-photothermal combinational therapy based on emissive Pt(II) metallacycle-loaded biomimic melanin dots
Pt(II)-based metallacycles, as an important family of supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs), have exhibited excellent antitumor activity at the cell level. However, the biomedical applications of Pt(II)...
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The assembly of succinate dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in bioenergetics
Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) also known as complex II or succinate:quinone oxidoreductase is an enzyme involved in both oxidative phosphorylation and tricarboxylic acid cycle; the processes that generate ener...
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Microstructural Characteristics and Mechanical Behavior of Spark Plasma-Sintered Cu–Cr–rGO Copper Matrix Composites
Copper matrix composites were prepared through spark plasma sintering (SPS) process, mixing fixed amount of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with the different amounts of Cr. In the sintered bulk composites, the l...
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Reversible DCT-based data hiding in stereo images
Stereo images captured from a pair of CCDs simultaneously are widely used to create the illusion of 3D depth. Each pair of stereo images has many similar block pairs. In this paper, a novel reversible data hid...
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A steganographic method via various animations in PowerPoint files
In a PowerPoint file, animation effects are used to emphasize objects, timing effects are used to control the presentation time, and slide transition effects are used to highlight particular slides. Thus, usin...
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Design of a low-alloy high-strength and high-toughness martensitic steel
To develop a high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel with high strength and high toughness, a series of martensitic steels were studied through alloying with various elements and thermodynamic simulation. The mic...
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A visualization study of the near-wall behaviors of an oblique plate at different angles of attack
A combined method of oil flow visualization and smoke visualization with a laser sheet was conducted on an oblique plate with 64° sweep under different angles of attack. The oil flow visualization results reve...
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Computational simulations of structural role of the active-site W374C mutation of acetyl-coenzyme-A carboxylase: Multi-drug resistance mechanism
Herbicides targeting grass plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase, EC 6.4.1.2) are selectively effective against graminicides. The intensive worldwide use of this herbicide family has selected for resistance...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Applying Public-Key Watermarking Techniques in Forensic Imaging to Preserve the Authenticity of the Evidence
The traditional verifying evidence method in court is to check the integrity of the chain of custody of evidence. However, since the digital image can be easily transferred by Internet, it is not easy for us t...
