148 research outputs found
Code and data: Global assessment of marine plastic risk exposure for oceanic birds (Submission).
No full textBethany L. Clark, Elizabeth J. Pearmain, Ana P. B. Carneiro, Win Cowger, & Maria P. Dias. (2023). Code and data: Global assessment of marine plastic risk exposure for oceanic birds (Submission)
Foundational Principles of South African Medical Law [Pieter Carstens & Debbie Pearmain, 2007]
No full textA critical review of the book, Foundational Principles of South African Medical Law (2007) LexisNexis, by authors Pieter Carstens and Debbie Pearmain.</p
Foundational Principles of South African Medical Law [Pieter Carstens & Debbie Pearmain, 2007]
No full textA critical review of the book, Foundational Principles of South African Medical Law (2007) LexisNexis, by authors Pieter Carstens and Debbie Pearmain.</p
sj-docx-1-msc-10.1177_09691413221090892 - Supplemental material for COVID-19 disruption to cervical cancer screening in England
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-msc-10.1177_09691413221090892 for COVID-19 disruption to cervical cancer screening in England by Alejandra Castanon, Matejka Rebolj, Francesca Pesola, Philippa Pearmain and Ruth Stubbs in Journal of Medical Screening</p
Mobile Audiovisual Terminal: System Design and Subjective Testing in DECT and UMTS networks
No full textIt is anticipated that there will shortly be a requirement
for multimedia terminals that operate via mobile
communications systems. This paper presents a functional specification
for such a terminal operating at 32 kb/s in a digital
European cordless telecommunications (DECT) and universal
mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) radio network. A terminal
has been built, based on a PC with digital signal processor
(DSP) boards for audio and video coding and decoding. Speech
coding is by a phonetically driven code-excited linear prediction
(CELP) speech coder and video coding by a block-oriented hybrid
discrete cosine transform (DCT) coder. Separate channel coding
is provided for the audio and video data. The paper describes the
techniques used for audio and video coding, channel coding, and
synchronization. Methods of subjective testing in a DECT network
and in a UMTS network are also described. These consisted of
subjective tests of first impressions of the mobile audio–visual
terminal (MAVT) quality, interactive tests, and the completion
of an exit questionnaire. The test results showed that the quality
of the audio was sufficiently good for comprehension and the
video was sufficiently good for following and repeating simple
mechanical tasks. However, the quality of the MAVT was not
good enough for general use where high-quality audio and video
was needed, especially when transmission was in a noisy radio
environment
Customized television: Standards compliant advanced digital television
No full textThis correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement such a scenario by building
the following services: an advanced EPG, Weather Forecasting, and Stock Exchange/Flight Information
Distribution of similarity across all non clonal or duplicate members of the collection (1777 accessions) and a series of documented siblings, parent-offspring and full-sibs.
No full text1D Density plot as produced in Genstat using a bandwidth of 0.75. All similarity values were calculated using the Jaccard coefficient. Documented relationships were as identified in the NFC database and archive. Groups are as follows: (a) all 1777 accessions including siblings and parents; (b-g) similarity between documented (half- and full-) sibling offspring of ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’, ‘Delicious’, ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Jonathan’, ‘McIntosh’ and ‘Worcester Pearmain’; (h-m) similarity between documented offspring of ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’, ‘Delicious’, ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Jonathan’, ‘McIntosh’, ‘Worcester Pearmain’ and their respective parent; (n) similarity between documented full-sibling offspring from crosses between ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ and ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Jonathan’ or ‘McIntosh’ and between ‘Jonathan’ and ‘Delicious’ or ‘Golden Delicious’.</p
Quality of Service Controlled Multimedia Transport Protocol
No full textPhDThis research looks at the design of an open transport protocol that supports a range of
services including multimedia over low data-rate networks. Low data-rate multimedia
applications require a system that provides quality of service (QoS) assurance and flexibility.
One promising field is the area of content-based coding. Content-based systems use an array
of protocols to select the optimum set of coding algorithms. A content-based transport
protocol integrates a content-based application to a transmission network.
General transport protocols form a bottleneck in low data-rate multimedia
communicationbsy limiting throughpuot r by not maintainingt iming requirementsT. his work
presents an original model of a transport protocol that eliminates the bottleneck by
introducing a flexible yet efficient algorithm that uses an open approach to flexibility and
holistic architectureto promoteQ oS.T he flexibility andt ransparenccyo mesi n the form of a
fixed syntaxt hat providesa seto f transportp rotocols emanticsT. he mediaQ oSi s maintained
by defining a generic descriptor. Overall, the structure of the protocol is based on a single
adaptablea lgorithm that supportsa pplication independencen, etwork independencea nd
quality of service.
The transportp rotocol was evaluatedth rougha set of assessmentos:f f-line; off-line
for a specific application; and on-line for a specific application. Application contexts used
MPEG-4 test material where the on-line assessmenuts eda modified MPEG-4 pl; yer. The
performanceo f the QoSc ontrolledt ransportp rotocoli s often bettert hano thers chemews hen
appropriateQ oS controlledm anagemenatl gorithmsa re selectedT. his is shownf irst for an
off-line assessmenwt here the performancei s compared between the QoS controlled
multiplexer,a n emulatedM PEG-4F lexMux multiplexers chemea, ndt he targetr equirements.
The performanceis also shownt o be better in a real environmentw hen the QoS controlled
multiplexeri s comparedw ith the real MPEG-4F lexMux scheme
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“This Book is Awful, the Author is Literally Clueless, It'll Probably Sell a Million Copies, Yay, Publishing”: Racial Reckoning and YA Book Twitter
No full textThis dissertation explores bibliosocial spaces (Book Twitter, Goodreads, the blogosphere, etc.) and their influence on the publishing industry. Extant research literature has explored the role of the trade reviewer for the library and bookselling professions, the function of customer reviews on book shopping sites, or types of responses to art, but my study focuses on the intersection of book response and social justice activism, specifically when it came to the release of two YA fantasy novels, The Continent (Drake, 2017) and Blood Heir (Zhao, 2019). My research questions, “What happens when socially marginalized people publicly critique novels that they believe misrepresent, demean, stereotype, offend, or harm them?” and “in the case of books that are withdrawn, revised, and (re-)released, are the revisions substantive and do they assuage, address, or ignore the critiques levied against them?” are answered via a three-part critical content analysis. First, each book in its Advance Reader Copy (ARC) form, then the controversy that erupted in bibliosocial spaces online, then each book in its final published form. Critical whiteness theory is the primary critical lens for my analysis. Implications for my study in the fields of publishing, education, and sociology are discussed, as well as implications for teen readers
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