The aim of the study was to examine response of ‘Jersey’ highbush blueberry to boron (B) fertilization. The experiment was carried out in 2002-2003 at a private plantation in Central Poland on mature blueberries planted on a sandy loam soil with pH 4.1, low organic matter status, and medium available B content. Blueberries were supplied with B by foliar applications or broadcasting. Foliar B sp...

This chapter presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, real-time broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the cu...

Video-on-demand (VoD) systems that can serve hundreds to thousands of concurrent users are already widely available. However, to deploy metropolitan-scale VoD services for potentially tens of millions of users, current VoD systems are still limited in capacity, and expensive in cost. To tackle this challenge, this study proposes a new periodic broadcasting scheme, called Constrained Consonant B...