Secure Biometric Hashing by Random Fusion of Global and Local Features

Ou, Yang,Rhee, Kyung-Hyune Korea Multimedia Society 2010 멀티미디어학회논문지 Vol.13 No.6

In this paper, we present a secure biometric hashing scheme for face recognition by random fusion of global and local features. The Fourier-Mellin transform and Radon transform are adopted respectively to form specialized representation of global and local features, due to their invariance to geometric operations. The final biometric hash is securely generated by random weighting sum of both feature sets. A fourfold key is involved in our algorithm to ensure the security and privacy of biometric templates. The proposed biometric hash can be revocable and replaced by using a new key. Moreover, the attacker cannot obtain any information about the original biometric template without knowing the secret key. The experimental results confirm that our scheme has a satisfactory accuracy performance in terms of EER.

LitCovid-AGAC: cellular and molecular level annotation data set based on COVID-19

Ouyang, Sizhuo,Wang, Yuxing,Zhou, Kaiyin,Xia, Jingbo Korea Genome Organization 2021 Genomics & informatics Vol.19 No.3

Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) literature has been increasing dramatically, and the increased text amount make it possible to perform large scale text mining and knowledge discovery. Therefore, curation of these texts becomes a crucial issue for Bio-medical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) community, so as to retrieve the important information about the mechanism of COVID-19. PubAnnotation is an aligned annotation system which provides an efficient platform for biological curators to upload their annotations or merge other external annotations. Inspired by the integration among multiple useful COVID-19 annotations, we merged three annotations resources to LitCovid data set, and constructed a cross-annotated corpus, LitCovid-AGAC. This corpus consists of 12 labels including Mutation, Species, Gene, Disease from PubTator, GO, CHEBI from OGER, Var, MPA, CPA, NegReg, PosReg, Reg from AGAC, upon 50,018 COVID-19 abstracts in LitCovid. Contain sufficient abundant information being possible to unveil the hidden knowledge in the pathological mechanism of COVID-19.

Photosensitized oxidative damage of human serum albumin by water-soluble dichlorophosphorus(V) tetraphenylporphyrin

Ouyang, Dongyan,Hirakawa, Kazutaka Korean Society of Photoscience 2015 Rapid communication in photoscience Vol.4 No.2

Biomolecular photo-damaging activity of a water-soluble cationic porphyrin was examined using human serum albumin (HSA), a water-soluble protein as a target biomolecule model by a fluorometry. Dichlorophosphorus(V) tetraphenylporphyrin ($Cl_2P(V)TPP$), was synthesized and used as a photosensitizer. This porphyrin could bind to HSA and cause the photosensitized oxidation of HSA through the singlet oxygen generation and the oxidative photo-induced electron transfer (ET). Near infrared emission spectroscopy demonstrated the photosensitized singlet oxygen generation by this porphyrin. Decrement of the fluorescence lifetime of $Cl_2P(V)TPP$ by HSA supported the ET mechanism. Furthermore, the estimated Gibb's energy indicated that the ET mechanism is possible in the terms of energy. Because oxygen concentration in cancer cell is relatively low, ET mechanism is considered to be advantageous for photosensitizer of photodynamic therapy.

SPECIAL WEAK PROPERTIES OF GENERALIZED POWER SERIES RINGS

Ouyang, Lunqun Korean Mathematical Society 2012 대한수학회지 Vol.49 No.4

Let $R$ be a ring and $nil(R)$ the set of all nilpotent elements of $R$. For a subset $X$ of a ring $R$, we define $N_R(X)=\{a{\in}R{\mid}xa{\in}nil(R)$ for all $x{\in}X$}, which is called a weak annihilator of $X$ in $R$. $A$ ring $R$ is called weak zip provided that for any subset $X$ of $R$, if $N_R(Y){\subseteq}nil(R)$, then there exists a finite subset $Y{\subseteq}X$ such that $N_R(Y){\subseteq}nil(R)$, and a ring $R$ is called weak symmetric if $abc{\in}nil(R){\Rightarrow}acb{\in}nil(R)$ for all a, b, $c{\in}R$. It is shown that a generalized power series ring $[[R^{S,{\leq}}]]$ is weak zip (resp. weak symmetric) if and only if $R$ is weak zip (resp. weak symmetric) under some additional conditions. Also we describe all weak associated primes of the generalized power series ring $[[R^{S,{\leq}}]]$ in terms of all weak associated primes of $R$ in a very straightforward way.

Investigation on bragg reflection of surface water waves induced by a train of fixed floating pontoon breakwaters

Ouyang, Huei-Tau,Chen, Kue-Hong,Tsai, Chi-Ming The Society of Naval Architects of Korea 2015 International Journal of Naval Architecture and Oc Vol.7 No.6

The water wave characteristics of Bragg reflections from a train of fixed floating pontoon breakwaters was studied numerically. A numerical model of boundary discretization type was developed to calculate the wave field. The model was verified by comparing to analytical data in literature and good agreements were achieved. Series of parametric studies were conducted systematically to investigate the dependence of the reflected coefficients by the Bragg scattering on the design variables, including the spacing between the breakwaters, the total number of installed breakwaters, the draft and width do the breakwater, and wave length. Certain wave characteristics of the Bragg reflections were observed and discussed in details which might be of help for practical engineering applications in shoreline protection from incident waves.

A Hybrid Strategy for Fine-Grained Sentiment of Microblog

Ouyang Chunping,Luo Lingyun,Zhang Shuqing,Yang Xiaohua 보안공학연구지원센터 2014 International Journal of Database Theory and Appli Vol.7 No.6

Currently, most sentiment analysis of microblog has been focused on coarse-grained sentiment analysis, but fine-grained sentiment is better for reflecting the opinion of the public when they are facing the social focus. Therefore, a hybrid strategy which is a combination of Naïve Bayesian and two-layer CRFs is put forward, which has been applied to the fine-grained sentiment analysis of Chinese microblog. First, microblog is classified into two types: sentiment and non-sentiment by using Naïve Bayesian classification algorithm. And then the first-layer CRFs model is built for the topic emotional sentence. Finally CRFs algorithm is used again to do multi-classification to assign a specific sentiment category. Experimental results show that a good result in sentiment identification based on the combination of Naïve Bayesian and CRFs, and also show the advantage of the combination of Naïve Bayesian and CRFs interrelated with emotional sentence extraction based on CRFs.

ON NIL GENERALIZED POWER SERIESWISE ARMENDARIZ RINGS

Ouyang, Lunqun,Liu, Jinwang Korean Mathematical Society 2013 대한수학회논문집 Vol.28 No.3

We in this note introduce a concept, so called nil generalized power serieswise Armendariz ring, that is a generalization of both S-Armendariz rings and nil power serieswise Armendariz rings. We first observe the basic properties of nil generalized power serieswise Armendariz rings, constructing typical examples. We next study the relationship between the nilpotent property of R and that of the generalized power series ring [[$R^{S,{\leq}}$]] whenever R is nil generalized power serieswise Armendariz.

Sclareol Protects Staphylococcus aureus-Induced Lung Cell Injury via Inhibiting Alpha-Hemolysin Expression

( Ouyang Ping ),( Sun Mao ),( He Xuewen ),( Wang Kaiyu ),( Yin Zhongqiong ),( Fu Hualin ),( Li Yinglun ),( Geng Yi ),( Shu Gang ),( He Changliang ),( Liang Xiaoxia ),( Lai Weiming ),( Li Lixia ),( Zou 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2017 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.27 No.1

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a common gram-positive bacterium that causes serious infections in humans and animals. With the continuous emergence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains, antibiotics have limited efficacy in treating MRSA infections. Accordingly, novel agents that act on new targets are desperately needed to combat these infections. S. aureus alpha-hemolysin plays an indispensable role in its pathogenicity. In this study, we demonstrate that sclareol, a fragrant chemical compound found in clary sage, can prominently decrease alpha-hemolysin secretion in S. aureus strain USA300 at sub-inhibitory concentrations. Hemolysis assays, western-blotting, and RT-PCR were used to detect the production of alpha-hemolysin in the culture supernatant. When USA300 was co-cultured with A549 epithelial cells, sclareol could protect the A549 cells at a final concentration of 8 μg/ml. The protective capability of sclareol against the USA300-mediated injury of A549 cells was further shown by cytotoxicity assays and live/dead analysis. In conclusion, sclareol was shown to inhibit the production of S. aureus alpha-hemolysin. Sclareol has potential for development as a new agent to treat S. aureus infections.

Impact of an Information Leaflet on Knowledge of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Hepatitis B among Chinese Youth

Ouyang, Jun-Jie,He, Wen-Jing,Zheng, Kai-Xin,Chen, Geng-Zhen Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2016 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.17 No.1

Background: To assess the effect of an information leaflet on the level of Chinese youth's knowledge about hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer (PLC). Materials and Methods: A total of 500 students, from two universities in the Chaoshan area of China, were randomly divided into an intervention group of 280 participants and a control group of 220. Baseline knowledge of HCC and hepatitis B was evaluated by questionnaire interview. Subsequently, only the intervention group was given an information leaflet of HCC and hepatitis B. Three months later, the two groups were contacted for a second interview. Changes in knowledge from baseline of HCC and hepatitis B were compared between the two groups. Results: There was no statistically significant difference in mean PRE-questionnaire scores between the intervention and control groups. However, the mean POST-questionnaire score was significantly higher in the intervention group after the intervention. The leaflet had the greatest effect on the participants' questionnaire score, and raised their level of knowledge about HCC and hepatitis B. Conclusions: The information leaflet intervention is significantly effective in improving the knowledge of HCC and hepatitis B among the youth.

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( Ouyang Li ) 한국기초조형학회 2019 한국기초조형학회 작품집 Vol.2019 No.2