Future advances in networking coupled with the rapid advances in storage technologies will make it feasible to build a HDTV-on-demand server (that provides services similar to those of a neighborhood videotape rental store) on a metropolitan-area network. In this paper, we present a quantitative study of designing a multi-user HDTV server, and present efficient techniques for (1) storing multip...

Navigation has added interactivity in nowadays multimedia applications which support effective accessing to objects of various formats and presentation requirements. Storage issues need to be reconsidered for the new type of navigational multimedia applications, in order to improve system’s performance. This paper addresses the problem of multimedia data storage towards improving data accessibi...

This study was carried out to see whether the uteri of dairy cows suffering from repeat breeder syndrome are infected with bacteria or not. Furthermore, the efficacy of intra-uterine infusion of diluted Lugol’s iodine to treat this syndrome was tested by studying two reproductive traits, the rate of service per conception and the length of the days open (DO). Sixty cross-bred dairy cows that we...

Ambitions to explore and develop space call for the assembly and servicing of diverse in-space facilities. Robots will assemble future stations, spacecraft and facilities that are orders of magnitude larger, more complex and more remote than those of today. Profiled here is Skyworker research developing robotic technologies for the assembly, inspection, and maintenance of large space facilities.

In order to test the stability of the WFPC2 PSF during SMOV, dithered F439W images of Omega Cen were obtained shortly after the servicing mission and were compared with similar images obtained in July of 1996. The data were combined using the drizzle algorithm. The only significant differences between the PSF's from the two epochs can be attributed to a change in focus.

The importance of space robots in satellite servicing, in EVA assistance, in removing orbital debris and in space exploration is growing, driven by space commercialization and exploration efforts. A successful deployment of such robots requires analytical and experimental task validation. With this aim, we present the main characteristics of the software and hardware space robot emulator develo...