Due to the growing demand for video streaming services, providers have deal with increasing resource requirements increasingly heterogeneous environments. To mitigate this problem, many works been proposed which aim ( i) improve cloud/edge caching efficiency, (ii) use computation power available in on-the-fly transcoding, and (iii) optimize trade-off among various cost parameters, e.g., storage...

A retrospective study of 34,236 consecutive static line parachute descents by trained parachutists, in which 379 were injured, is described. Injury rates associated with extrinsic factors were compared and then analyzed using logistic regression. A table describing the association with extrinsic factors, with relative risks, is at Annex A. The overall injury rate was 1.11% (1.11 injured per 100...

This paper describes work performed in the development of a set of specification for the construction of an integrated electronic system for piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS). The paper starts with a comprehensive review of the PWAS material properties, dimensions, and electrical characteristics. PWAS of various shapes and sizes are considered. Two boundary conditions were examined: free...

INTRODUCTION Monitoring child growth is a very important tool not only to build useful indicators for the evaluation and planning of public policies, but also for appropriate care to child health. In order to accomplish that anthropometric data from services need to present satisfactory reliability. OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability of weight and height variables obtained from children...

UV-B radiation and EOD light (EOD) quality has both signaling and damaging effects based on the dosage and time of exposure. At highland areas UV-B decreases crop productivity and also light quality increase at high elevation area but EOD light quality effect was not researched based on altitude. Therefore, in the present study a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of UV-B...

in order to study the effect of light quality and quantity on morphological and physiological characteristics of two late and early maize (zea maize l.) s.c., an experiment was conducted in greenhouse conditions, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, during 2008. the experiment was carried out factorial based on randomized complete block design with six treatments and three replications. differ...