This paper presents the design and implementation of a simple continuous media storage server: CRAS on Real-Time Mach. CRAS is a specially optimized storage system for retrieving multiple continuous media streams such as audio and video from a disk at constant rates for small scale distributed multimedia systems. Many previous continuous media storage servers have focussed on high throughput fo...

Photography and electronic media are indispensable tools for dental education and clinical practice. Although previous research has focused on privacy issues and general strategies to protect patient privacy when sharing clinical photographs for educational purposes, there are no published recommendations for developing a functional, privacy-compliant institutional framework for the capture, st...

The last 50 years have seen the development of methods for the digital storage of information. The current method for the storage of digital information is predominantly through the use of magnetic media. Increasing media storage density continues to be a very active area of research. Magnetic media may be divided into particulate and continuous media. Particulate media are comprised of small m...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of testis-epididymis cool storage on viability and progressive motility of buffalo epididymal sperm (EP) and to compare the influences of two basic semen extenders on post thaw EP viability and progressive motility. Abattoir collected buffalo testicles were allotted to three storage times (0 h: n = 10; 24 h: n = 10 and 48 h: n = 12). ...

A general strategy for fabricating thick, optically flat photopolymer recording media with high dynamic range (M/#) that exhibit low levels of recording-induced Bragg detuning for holographic data storage is presented. In particular, media with M/# values as high as 42 in 1-mm-thick formats are obtained. We believe that these results are the first demonstration of a holographic storage medium w...

Lion faecal samples, collected in the field between 1 hour to 1 week after defecation were preserved in three different media (ethanol, ASL buffer and Two-step storage). The aim was to determine which faecal DNA field preservation method best enhances PCR amplification success. Samples stored in ethanol showed a significantly higher amplification success of microsatellite loci than samples stor...

Streaming media is widely adopted by thousands of applications in cloud computing, how to effectively protect streaming media contents is a new challenge. In this paper, we propose an efficient online digital rights management (DRM) scheme supporting dynamic license in cloud computing. The content provider encrypts media content and outsources the encrypted content to cloud storage, while the u...

In multimedia DBMS, continuous media operations require constrained accesses to the storage system, which can vary unpredictably across users and application programs. To support real-time applications for continuous media, the storage system has to schedule the reservation of resources exclusively to guarantee time-dependent real-time retrieval, such as display. In addition, the system should ...

For applications with large data sets, e.g., video servers, magnetic disks have established themselves as the mass storage device of choice. A technique to increase the storage capacity of disks is zoning. A side-eeect of zoning is that it introduces a disk drive with variable transfer rates. This chapter describes techniques to support a continuous display of constant-bit rate video and audio ...

Recent advances in networking coupled with rapid advances in storage technologies are making it feasible to design a variety of sophisticated multimedia services, in which clients will not only access mundane services, such as television, radio, and telephones, but they will also have refreshing freedom to choose, procure, and personalize these services to suit their individual needs. In this p...