For multimedia traffic like VBR video, knowledge of the average loss probability is not sufficient to determine the impact of loss on the perceived visual quality and on the possible ways of improving it, for example by forward error correction (FEC) and error concealment. In this paper we investigate how the packet size distribution affects the packet loss process, the distribution of the numb...

Intergenerational contact for technology learning frequently transpires in various daily settings of older adults’ lives. However, adults often hold negative age-based self-stereotype that they are less capable use. Thus, may experience stereotype threats such situations, which further induce technophobia. Previous research indicated positive intergenerational can reduce threat and technophobia...

Far from being unwelcome or impossible in a mathematical setting, indeterminacy various forms can be seen as playing an important role driving research forward by providing “sources of newness” the sense Hutter and Farías (J Cult Econ 10(5):434–449, 2017). I argue here that coincidences, phenomena recently under discussion philosophy mathematics, are usefully inducers put to work guiding resear...

The competitive business environment demands innovative efforts to create product newness. Within consumer-oriented goals, the should arecognizable Consumption in economic rationality is theconsumption of benefits. Therefore, recognizable newness occurs when itself perceived be beneficial. This research resulted two basicconcepts perceived-benefit through consumer involvement, namely experience...

Basic concept of managing knowledge is not a new one, even though knowledge management is a new discipline it has emerged only recently and, given its newness is still developing its theoretical home. Knowledge management has always been conducted in one way or another, e.g. apprenticeships, colleagues chatting or a parent handing over her/his business to the offspring. E-learning is one of the...

The success of the ERP systems is considered an important issue, however, and as a result of its newness, mainly the investigation of the phenomenon has been of type descriptive or it has been oriented to qualitative methodologies. This paper presents an explanatory model of the phenomenon and its empirical validation in a set of Chilean organizations. The results of applying a structural equat...

The official opening of the Direct Bournemouth Railway is a good text for a description of that rising West Hants watering-place. Bournemouth has been growing in favour, and competing vigorously with other and older towns over which it has unquestionable advantages, the chief being its comparative newness. Some wateringplaces like Weymouth have had an existence of several generations, and their...

The success of the ERP systems is an important issue in the scientific literature of the area. Nevertheless, and as a result of its newness, mainly the investigation of the phenomenon has been of type descriptive or it has been oriented to qualitative methodologies. In this work we presented an explanatory model of the phenomenon and its empirical validation in a set of Chilean organizations. T...