Visual secret sharing with cheating prevention revisited

Visual secret sharing (VSS) is a variant form of secret sharing, and is efficient since secret decoding only depends on the human vision system. However, cheating in VSS, first showed by Horng et al., is a significant issue like a limelight. Since then, plenty of studies for cheating activities and cheating prevention visual secret sharing (CPVSS) schemes have been introduced. In this paper, we revisit some well-known cheating activities and CPVSS schemes, and then categorize cheating activities into meaningful cheating, non-meaningful cheating, and meaningful deterministic cheating. Moreover, we analyze the research challenges in CPVSS, and propose a new cheating prevention scheme which is better than the previous schemes in the aspects of some security requirements.     

An efficient phishing webpage detector

Phishing attack is growing significantly each year and is considered as one of the most dangerous threats in the Internet which may cause people to lose confidence in e-commerce. In this paper, we present a heuristic method to determine whether a webpage is a legitimate or a phishing page. This scheme could detect new phishing pages which black list based anti-phishing tools could not. We first convert a web page into 12 features which are well selected based on the existing normal and fishing pages. A training set of web pages including normal and fishing pages are then input for a support vector machine to do training. A testing set is finally fed into the trained model to do the testing. Compared to the existing methods, the experimental results show that the proposed phishing detector can achieve the high accuracy rate with relatively low false positive and low false negative rates.     

Locality sensitive hashing for sampling-based algorithms in association rule mining

Association rule mining is one of the most important techniques for intelligent system design and has been widely applied in a large number of real applications. However, classical mining algorithms cannot process very large databases in a reasonable amount of time. The sampling approach that processes a subset of the whole database is a viable alternative. Obviously, such an approach cannot extract perfectly accurate rules. Previous works have tried to improve the accuracy by removing “outliers” from the initial sample based on global statistical properties in the sample. In this paper, we take the view that the initial sample may actually consist of multiple possibly overlapping subsets or clusters. It is more reasonable to apply data clustering techniques to the initial sample before outlier removal is performed on the resulting clusters, so that outliers are removed based on local properties of individual clusters. However, clustering transactional data with very high dimensions is a difficult problem by itself. We solve this problem by interpreting locality sensitive hashing as a means for data clustering. Previously proposed algorithms may be then optionally used to remove the outliers in the individual clusters. We propose several concrete algorithms based on this general strategy. Using an extensive set of synthetic data and real datasets, we evaluate our proposed algorithms and find that our proposals exhibit better accuracy or execution time, or both, than previously proposed algorithms.     

基于SimpleScalar的多媒体应用程序特征分析

近些年来,多媒体产业正在以惊人的速度在发展.Intemet的普及己经把多媒体技术推向了计算领域的主流地位.如何针对多媒体应用的程序特征,从计算机系统优化的角度有效提高计算机对多媒体的计算处理能力,成为了当今及未来几年内研究人员研究的热点方向.介绍了多媒体应用程序MediaBench及测试工具SimpleScalar,提...     

Numerical analysis of performance enhancement and non-isothermal reactant transport of a cylindrical methanol reformer wrapped with a porous sheath under steam reforming

This paper accomplished a three-dimensional computational analysis of the methanol reformer with steam reforming by the Arrhenius form of reaction model and SIMPLE-C algorithm. The performance enhancement and non-isothermal reactant transport of the cylindrical reformer wrapped with a porous sheath were investigated. The parameters, including temperature of internal heater (T_H), porosity (ε), and thickness of porous sheath (R_P), on methanol conversion, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide productions, temperature and velocity fields with the same inlet conditions have been investigated. The results present that higher methanol conversion and richer hydrogen production occur as temperature of heater, porosity, and porous sheath thickness increase. As temperature of internal heater is equal to 250 °C, employing a porous sheath with ε = 0.9 and R_P = 10 mm to wrap a reformer results in the maximum enhancements of 35.71% in methanol conversion and 21.18% in hydrogen production. Besides, a porous sheath with ε = 0.5 and R_P = 10 mm leads to the maximum reduction of 2.23% in carbon monoxide produced from the reformer at T_H = 300 °C.     

Immunomagnetic reduction assay on chloramphenicol extracted from shrimp

The application of the assay methodology, called immunomagnetic reduction, using bio-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles as labeling markers for chloramphenicol was investigated. The reduction in the alternative-current (ac) magnetic susceptibility χ_ac of magnetic nanoparticles caused by the association between magnetic nanoparticles and chloramphenicol was detected as a function of the concentration of chloramphenicol. In this study, the characterizations used to detect chloramphenicol, such as low-detection limit and interference, were also conducted. Furthermore, the extracting processes for chloramphenicol from shrimp were explored. Thus, the platform for detecting chloramphenicol residue in shrimp via immunomagnetic reduction was demonstrated. Such platform showed features of a 0.1-ppb low-detection limit, low interference from other kinds of antibiotics, and easy operation.     

改性凹凸棒土对罗丹明B的吸附研究

通过酸活化的方法对凹凸棒土进行改性，并以其为吸附剂，通过静态吸附实验考察了其对罗丹明B的吸附性能。结果表明，酸活化能够提高凹凸棒土的比表面积，进而提高其对罗丹明B的吸附性能。在酸活化凹凸棒土投加量为4 g/L、吸附时间为40min的条件下吸附50mg/L的罗丹明B，罗丹明B的去除率可达92.1%。伪二级动力学和Freundlich等温吸附模型能够很好地描述罗丹明B在改性凹凸棒土上的吸附。     

GPC observations of branching effects in anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate: A preliminary study

The anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate was performed in tetrahydrofuran (THF) at ?78°C, using sec‐butyllithium/1,1‐diphenylethylene (DPE) as the initiation system. The effects of polymerization time and initiator concentration on the branching reaction were studied. High vacuum was used to prevent contamination during the polymerization. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) was used to characterize the branching effect qualitatively. Experimental results indicated that the monomer conversion reached more than 98% in a polymerization time of 10 min. The branching reaction occurred after high monomer conversion, resulting in a tail of high molecular weight in the GPC trace. This branching effect, observed by GPC, increased with polymerization time. Rapid termination was thus probably required immediately after all of the monomer was consumed in the preparation of a well‐defined PMMA without a high‐molecular‐weight tail in this diphenylbutylllithium/THF/?78°C system. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2009     

Synthesis of porous SiC and application in the CO oxidation reaction

Porous silicon carbide (SiC) was synthesized by carbothermal reduction method. In this method, the sucrose and the tetarethoxysilane (TEOS) were used as carbon resource and silicon resource. The surface area and pore volume of the obtained SiC was 157 m²/g and 0.46 cm³/g, respectively. Then the Pt/SiC was prepared by incipient impregnation method for the CO oxidation. The result shows that the catalyst exhibits relatively high catalyst activity, and makes it likely that SiC will become the subject of intense research as a potential new catalyst support material.     

Improved Light Extraction of Nitride-Based Flip-Chip Light-Emitting Diodes Via Sapphire Shaping and Texturing

A novel flip-chip structure of GaN-sapphire light-emitting diodes (LEDs) was developed to improve the external quantum efficiency, where the sapphire substrate was textured and shaped with beveled sidewalls using a wet etching technique. The forward voltage of the conventional flip-chip and shaped flip-chip GaN LEDs were 2.84 and 2.85 V at 20 mA, respectively. This indicates that the GaN LED was not destroyed during the sapphire wet etching process. It was found that the output power increased from 9.3 to 14.2 mW, corresponding to about 52% increases in the external quantum efficiency. The results agree well with the simulation data that the shaped flip-chip GaN LED can provide better light extraction efficiency than that of the conventional flip-chip sample