background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is an expanding disease and public health problem in iran. in the current study, natural leishmania infection rate and seasonal fluctuation of the infection in rhombomys opimus population of a hyperendemic focus of zcl in iran was investigated. methods:   the study was conducted from october 2006 to october 2008 in esfahan province, central par...

BACKGROUND Although natural disasters have caused considerable damages around the world, and gender analysis can improve community disaster preparedness or mitigation, there is little research about the gendered analytical tools and methods in communities exposed to natural disasters and hazards. These tools evaluate gender vulnerability and capacity in pre-disaster and post-disaster phases of ...

This lecture is about different techniques used for video streaming to improve performance and Quality of Experience (QoE). Specifically, we learned about ”neural adaptive video streaming with Pensieve” [1]. Pensieve adaptively selects bitrates (ABR) for future video chunks based on observations collected by client video players. It automatically learns ABR algorithms that adapt to a wide range...

Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the face of distinct failure modes, or that achieve better than worst-case guarantees during normal execution. The inability to make precise statements about consistency throughout a system’s execution represents a lost o...