BACKGROUND In this digital era, there is a growing tendency to use the popular Internet site YouTube as a new electronic-learning (e-learning) means for continuing medical education. Heart transplantation (HTx) remains the most viable option for patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. There are plenty of freely accessible YouTube videos providing medical informa...

The phenomenal growth of Internet service provider YouTube has already raised the company to legendary status. When Google acquired the company in 2006, YouTube’s founders became billionaires. But YouTube’s future success is contingent upon its ability to avoid copyright liability lawsuits that destroyed an earlier generation of online firms like Napster and Grokster. This paper describes YouTu...

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The above assertion indicates the place of reading in the general development of man and his society. Holt (1998) remarks that a situation in which a large number of people rarely read, either because they lack the skill or simply because they do not care enough to take time to concentrate will pose serious problems in the future. Reading is essential to full participation in modern society. It...

The playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an outspoken critic of the idiosyncrasies of English orthography. In his will, he directed that Britain's Public Trustee seek out and publish an alphabet of no fewer than forty letters to provide for the phonetic spelling of English. The alphabet finally selected was designed by Kingsley Read and is variously known as Shavian, Shaw's alphabet, ...

Wastewater microbiology http://uctm-biotechnology.org/Wastewater_Microbiology. pdf This site provides a link to a comprehensive book on wastewater microbiology with chapters on public health, general microbiology and fate of chemicals in wastewater. Wastewater microbiology: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epAh6hHOq3c This YouTube video is well-made and informational. It is very useful to...

In this paper we set out to “reverse-engineer” the YouTube video delivery cloud by building a globally distributed active measurement infrastructure. Through careful and extensive data collection, analysis and experiments, we deduce the key design features underlying the YouTube video delivery cloud. The design of the YouTube video delivery cloud consists of three major components: a “flat” vid...

Social media systems such as YouTube are gaining phenomenal popularity. As they face increasing pressure and difficulties monetising the large amount of user-generated content, there are intense interests in technologies capable of delivering revenue to the owners. In this paper, we propose to use data mining techniques to help companies increase their revenue stream. Our approach differs princ...

A key driver that motivates individuals to contribute to social media is to obtain reputation. This paper investigates the reputation and its formation in the context of YouTube, the largest online video site. Views of video lead to views of the provider’s channel, and then channel views lead to subscriptions, through which the provider build up her reputation on YouTube. Subscriptions in turn ...

The instant diffusion of digital contents via the Internet, especially on portal web sites such as YouTube, is phenomenal. The large audience (demand) pool and the potential of content’s diffusion via the vast users’ network give a promising market to companies willing to distribute their digital contents online. However, not all video contents are successful. While some of the contents get ins...