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Several studies have shown the association between the ligand-dependent nuclear receptor compression-like protein (LCORL) gene and body size in horses, pigs and donkeys. Based on previous studies, the LCORL gene was hypothesized to be associated with...

This study synthesized a low-molecular-weight donkey-hide gelatin peptide–zinc chelate (LMW DHGP–Zn) using peptides derived from donkey-hide gelatin. Under optimized conditions (zinc concentration of 32 mg/mL, peptide-to-zinc mass ratio o...

This paper proposes a multi-hider dual-image reversible data-hiding algorithm. Generating dual stego images, the proposed algorithm provides a high embedding capacity, exhibits high image quality, offers reversibility to restore the stego images, and...

In this paper, we propose a viewing direction based least significant bit (LSB) data hiding method for 360° videos. The distributions of viewing direction frequency for latitude and longitude are used to control the amount of secret data to be hidden...

The growing importance of critical infrastructure systems (CIS) makes maintaining their normal operation against deliberate attacks such as terrorism a significant challenge. Combining game theory and complex network theory provides a framework for a...

This paper presents an optimal weighted modulus (OWM) algorithm able to conceal secret messages in a high dynamic range image encoded via the RGBE format, consisting of the red, green, blue, and exponent channels. In contrast to current state-of-the-...

Although the variable selection and regularization procedures have been extensively considered in the literature for the quantile regression $\left(QR\right)$ scenario via penalization, many such procedures fail to deal with data aberrations in the design space,...

With the proliferation of image-capturing and display-enabled IoT devices, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of visual data has become increasingly critical, especially in light of emerging cybersecurity threats and powerful generative AI tools...

This paper explores the data hiding schemes which are based on the principle of matrix embedding. Under the same embedding rate, the efficiency of each data hiding scheme is evaluated by the metric of average embedding efficiency. In the literature,...

To ensure transparent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), climate impacts from cattle production must be consistently allocated among meat, milk and raw hides. This review examines allocation boundaries, compares physical and economic methods, and evaluates...

Image steganography is a subfield of pattern recognition. It involves hiding secret data in a cover image and extracting the secret data from the stego image (described as a container image) when needed. Existing image steganography methods based on...

A computational technique for the determination of optimal hiding conditions of a digital image in a self-organizing pattern is presented in this paper. Three statistical features of the developing pattern (the Wada index based on the weighted and tr...

Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) is a common method for spatial interpolation. Still, its accuracy decreases when there is a cluster of measurement stations or when some measuring stations are hidden behind others. This paper introduces Clusters Unif...

The carbon footprint of beef cattle is presented for Canada, The United States, The European Union, Australia and Brazil. The values ranged between 8 and 22 kg CO₂e per kg of live weight (LW) depending on the type of farming system, the location, the...

Iron deficiency is a global health issue, making the development of novel iron supplements to enhance iron absorption critically important. In this study, low molecular weight donkey-hide gelatin peptides (LMW DHGP) were enzymatically hydrolyzed from...

The crow search arithmetic optimization algorithm (CSAOA) method is introduced in this article as a novel hybrid optimization technique. This proposed strategy is a population-based metaheuristic method inspired by crows’ food-hiding techniques...

The importance of variable selection and regularization procedures in multiple regression analysis cannot be overemphasized. These procedures are adversely affected by predictor space data aberrations as well as outliers in the response space. To cou...

Consider a finite directed graph without cycles in which the arrows are weighted by positive weights. We present an algorithm for the computation of a new distance, called path-length-weighted distance, which has proven useful for graph analysis in t...

Agricultural areas can provide sources of food and hiding and nesting places for wild birds. Thus, the chemical load of potentially toxic elements (Cd, Cu, Pb) due to industrial and agricultural activities can affect not only the adult birds but also...

The leather and footwear cluster in Tungurahua state has a main role in the country’s production chain, supplying 76% of the country’s tanned hides for the textile, footwear, and furniture industries, among others. The processes involved...

Redactable Blockchain aims to ensure the immutability of the data of most applications and provide authorized mutability for some specific applications, such as for removing illegal content from blockchains. However, the existing Redactable Blockchai...

Multi-criteria decision analyses (MCDA) for prioritizations may be performed applying a variety of available software, e.g., methods such as Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Elimination Et Choice Translating Reality (ELECTRE III) as recently sugges...

Outlier detection aims to identify rare, minority objects in a dataset that are significantly different from the majority. When a minority group (defined by sensitive attributes, such as gender, race, age, etc.) does not represent the target group fo...

Digital images cannot be excluded as part of a popular choice of information representation. Covert information can be easily hidden using images. Several schemes are available to hide covert information and are known as steganography schemes. Stegan...

Enzymatically processed animal biomass derived from treated bovine hides (wet blue scraps) is herein used as building block for the synthesis of a novel biopolymer. An enzymatic hydrolysis process allows to produce water-soluble lower molecular weigh...

This study aimed to explore the structural characteristics and antioxidant mechanism of donkey-hide gelatin peptides. After hydrolysis and ultrafiltration treatment, five gelatin peptides with different molecular weights (MWs) were obtained. Amino ac...

The paper presents the results of experimental studies to determine the strain properties and characteristics of a chrome leather semi-finished product of middle-weight bovine hide by its topographic sections and the coatings of the processing compre...

Information security is considered one of the most important issues in various infrastructures related to the field of data communication where most of the modern studies focus on finding effective and low-weight secure approaches. Digital watermarki...

Micro expressions are usually subtle and brief facial expressions that humans use to hide their true emotional states. In recent years, micro-expression recognition has attracted wide attention in the fields of psychology, mass media, and computer vi...

The diagnosis of PCOS is based on the Rotterdam guidelines: chronic anovulation, hyperandrogenism (biologic or clinical) and polycystic ovaries on ultrasound. Two of these three criteria are sufficient for making diagnosis of PCOS. However, one chara...

With the rise in the Internet of Things (IOT), mobile devices and Location-Based Social Network (LBSN), abundant trajectory data have made research on location prediction more popular. The check-in data shared through LBSN hide information related to...

Prosthetic humanoid manipulators manufacturing requires light overall weight, small size, compact structure, and low cost to realize wearing purpose. These requirements constrain hardware configuration conditions and aggravate the nonlinearity and co...

The fault data of the secondary system of smart substations hide some information that the association analysis algorithm can mine. The convergence speed of the Apriori algorithm and FP-growth algorithm is slow, and there is a lack of indicators to e...

Nowadays, the online comment process of product after-sales has become a key part of product development. Quality problems, such as the failure of products or services, are more likely to exist or hide in negative comments. Therefore, this paper focu...

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is an internationally recognized medical vocabulary that enables semantic interoperability across various biomedical terminologies. To use its knowledge, the users must understand its complex knowledge struc...

Background: This single-center retrospective observational study reviewed data from 2305 persons examined for coronary artery calcium (CAC) with non-contrast-enhanced cardiac CT. Other cardiac structures, including chamber volumes, were evaluated bes...

The aim of this study was the development and optimization of some topical collagen-dextran sponges with flufenamic acid, designed to be potential dressings for burn wounds healing. The sponges were obtained by lyophilization of hydrogels based on ty...

Buffing Dust Collagen (BDC) is a hazardous waste product of chromium tanning bovine hides. The aim of this study was to investigate whether BDC has the desirable properties required of modern fillers. The microstructural properties of BDC were charac...

Protein hydrolysates are widely used in agricultural crops for improving plant nutrient uptake, growth, yield, and fruit quality. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most important vegetables consumed around the world both for its go...

With the development of commodity economy, the emergence of fake and shoddy products has seriously harmed the interests of consumers and enterprises. To tackle this challenge, customized 2D barcode is proposed to satisfy the requirements of the enter...

As cities grow, they increase in complexity, requiring the effective use of land resources. Cycling is generally regarded as an alternative transport mode to support the development of the cities of tomorrow. In response to urbanization, in many citi...

Recommender systems that learn user preference from item-level feedback (provided to individual items) have been extensively studied. Considering the risk of privacy exposure, learning from set-level feedback (provided to sets of items) has been demo...

Genuine leather manufacturing is a multibillion-dollar industry that processes animal hides from varying types of animals such as sheep, alligator, goat, ostrich, crocodile, and cow. Due to the industry’s immense scale, there may be numerous un...

A solid biostimulant (AA309) obtained through thermobaric hydrolysis applied on trimmings and shavings of bovine hides tanned with wet-blue technology was chemically characterized, and its effects in maize (Zea mays L.) were evaluated. AA309 containe...

Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Torch, PyTorch, and other software frameworks have remarkably stimulated the popularity of deep learning (DL). Apart from all the good they achieve, the danger of such frameworks is that they unintentionally spur a black-bo...

Finished tanned leather is usually covered by a thin polymeric layer. This layer has the scope to change the morphological aspect of the last leather layer as well as improve the impermeabilization properties. Often, the finished product is refused b...

Collagen is the most crucial component of leather artifacts and analyzing collagen can provide vital information for studying and conserving such artifacts. However, collagen in leather artifacts often faces challenges such as degradation, denaturati...

Blockchain technology has allowed many abnormal schemes to hide behind smart contracts. This causes serious financial losses, which adversely affects the blockchain. Machine learning technology has mainly been utilized to enable automatic detection o...

Motion deblurring is an ill-posed, challenging problem in image restoration due to non-uniform motion blurs. Although recent deep convolutional neural networks have made significant progress, many existing methods adopt multi-scale or multi-patch sub...

Two experiments were conducted to determine which part of the empty body of Boer × Saanen intact male kids can be used to predict the chemical composition of the whole body. In the first experiment, kids were fed ad libitum and slaughtered at 5...