Human visual system has some masking effects, that is the reason why steganography based on the characteristic of HVS has good visual imperceptibility and large payload.

由于视觉系统具有一些视觉掩蔽效应，因此基于视觉特性的图像隐写算法可以在保证较大的数据嵌入量的同时，使得隐写图像保持良好的视觉效果。

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Because of considering the temporal masking effects to set up a threshold and the valid hop size of transient points, this method is very suitable for perceptual audio coding.

由于考虑了时域掩蔽效应来设置检测门限和有效瞬态点间隔，非常适用于感觉音频编码。

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This could lead to misleading evaluation of national and local suicide prevention strategies and a masking of the effects of economic difficulties on suicide rates, they suggest.

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That may not be the worst thing, given the excesses that led the the bubble bursting five and a half years ago, but Alpert thinks one of the knock-on effects is housing demand from institutional investors masking the fact that shadow inventory is still a significant overhang on the market.

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