Abstract. The AirCore is a long coiled tube that acts as “tape recorder” of the composition air it slowly filled or flushed. When launched by balloon with one end open and other closed, initial fill flows out during ascent outside pressure drops. During descent atmospheric back in. I describe how we can associate position an parcel in altitude came from modeling dynamics process. conditions nee...

The word Lecture according to Webster's Dictionary is " an insructional discourse given by a member of the college or university faculty ". Another meaning it has is " the act of reading ". This is exactly what some members of teaching staff do. Read out their notes. These notes are then faithfully transferred to the notebooks of the students. According to one wit during this process of transfe...

PURPOSE The head-mounted display (HMD) has produced conflict between visual and vestibular stimuli because the HMD image does not move with the head motion of the wearer. The HMD can show binocular parallax three-dimensional (3D) images, in which vergence and accommodation conflict. Thus, the HMD may affect the normal visual/vestibular functions. We attempted to develop a system that makes poss...

1 Abstract In this paper, we evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demand video servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. Then we study disk farms in which one movie is stored per disk. This is a simple scheme, but it wastes substantial disk bandwidth, since disks holding less popular movies are under-utilized; also, good performance requires that movies be...

The drive-recorder records automobile accidents and/or near-misses data. To realize the practical use of drive-recorders in automobiles, a fleet test was conducted on 202 cars and trucks that were in regular use on roads. Some of the tested drive-recorders were video drive-recorders (VDR) equipped with a video recording unit to obtain visual data on accidents and near-misses from the driver's v...

The transcoding of MPEG video streams is important in a variety of situations such as in rate reduction for small bandwidth downstream channels and in extracting a fast visual playback stream for digital video cassette recorders. This paper addresses transcoding of MPEG intra-coded frames by selectively copying DCT AC coefficients from the primary MPEG stream into the secondary MPEG stream. A r...

A digital home network is a cluster of digital audio/visual (A/V) devices including set-top boxes, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and general-purpose computing devices such as personal computers. The network may receive copyrighted digital multimedia content from a number of sources. This content may be broadcast via satellite or terrestrial systems, transmitted by cable operators, or made available a...