Providing acceptable quality level for media flows such as interactive video or audio is challenging in the presence of TCP. Volatile TCP traffic such as Web traffic causes transient queues to appear and vanish rapidly introducing jitter to the packets of the media flow. Meanwhile long-lived TCP connections cause standing queues to form. To get insights into this problem space we conducted expe...

This study experimentally examines the flow of glass spheres in a wedgeshaped hopper that is vibrated horizontally. When the hopper is discharged without vibration, discharge occurs as a hnnel flow, with the material exiting the central region of the hopper and stagnant material along the sides. With vibration, the discharge of the material occurs in reverse, with the material along the sides e...

The total suspended sediment (TSS) concentrations obtained by the satellite remote sensing instrument MERIS were validated using in situ data acquired during a dry and a wet season in the vicinity of the Herbert River, central Great Barrier Reef region, Australia. The available MERIS imagery for the region covering 16 months in 2003-2004 was then compiled, and derived TSS distributions statisti...

Phase one activities deal with creation of an enabling environment for the intervention and flows into phases two and three. It mobilises the local community to own the problem of drug abuse and related risks, sets up committees of concern consisting of key influencers and the lays the ground for sustaining the intervention after project life. Key informant interviews and group discussions are ...

Critical care units are equipped with commercial monitoring devices capable of sensing patients' physiological parameters and supervising the achievement of the established therapeutic goals. This avoids human errors in this task and considerably decreases the workload of the healthcare staff. However, at present there still is a very relevant physiological parameter that is measured and superv...

[1] The 8.2 kyr event is the largest abrupt climatic change recorded in the last 10,000 years, and is widely hypothesized to have been triggered by the release of thousands of kilometers cubed of freshwater into the North Atlantic Ocean. Using a high‐resolution (1/6°) global, ocean‐ice circulation model we present an alternative view that freshwater discharged from glacial Lake Agassiz would ha...

BACKGROUND Due to increasing demands on limited resources in the health care system, many hospitals are working to improve patient flow, thereby increasing their effective capacity. Identifying barriers to patient flow provides the best available evidence to improve such flow in The Canberra Hospital's acute psychiatric units. METHODS This audit uses a multi-method design (combining focus gro...

abstract background: intensive care unit is a center to provide comprehensive care for critically ill patients whose condition can be improved by receiving specialized care. the importance of accurate and rapid monitoring of patients at this precise moment is in recording patient data and its comparison with previous data. monitoring the patient by either devices or direct examination of the nu...

for better management of asthma it is essential that patients adjust their treatment according to the medical plan developed by the health care professionals. to achieve this goal, patients should assess the severity of their disease regularly. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of regular measurement of peak expiratory flow and patient education on self management of asthma....