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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Content Delivery"”.
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Software content delivery in an outsourced manufacturing environment
The trend towards integrated hardware and software solutions has become prevalent in the corporate server market. At the same time, companies struggle with the apparently conflicting goals of providing customers more customized and relevant products while handing over control of manufacturing to …
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OpenCache : a content delivery platform for the modern internet
… keep in touch with each other and consume content. In the latter case, it is now used by thousands of simultaneous users to consume video, surpassing physical media as the primary means of distribution. With the rise of on-demand services and more recently, high-definition media, this …
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Semantics-aware content delivery framework for 3D Tele-immersion
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-12 at 11:23.
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An eCommerce platform for customized page design and content delivery
… many web based applications provide customized content, these systems do not adapt and provide a customized user experience as one navigates the site. Our research investigates customizing web applications to fit individual decision styles by morphing user experience based on revealed clicks, …
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Quality-Oriented Mobility Management for Multimedia Content Delivery to Mobile Users
The heterogeneous wireless networking environment determined by the latest developments in wireless access technologies promises a high level of communication resources for mobile computational devices. Although the communication resources provided, especially referring to bandwidth, enable …
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Improving content delivery in low-resource networks: a case study of the African Internet Ecosystem
… evidence, to better understand the challenges of content delivery in African networks. The thesis starts by providing an understanding how the Internet is being used and consumed by low-income mobile Internet users in South African townships. By means of a mixed-methods study, combining …
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Disruptions in the sports content delivery value chain due to consuming sports content over the Internet
… of the highly lucrative sports business is the content delivery value chain consisting of a number of players including the content creators - sports leagues; content aggregators - TV networks; content distributors - pay TV providers; advertisers - one of the main financiers in the value chain; …
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Providing informational support to HIV + women in a virtual environment : a case study comparing the effects of virtual reality and paper media for content delivery
This dissertation presents a comparison of the effects of two media, VR and paper (i.e. pamphlets) in communicating supportive information to an HIV+ sample group. We created a VE to provide social and informational support for HIV+ people in the South African context. The design of the VE placed …
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Hypermedia storytelling in the middle years of schooling
… focussed on hypermedia as a support to specific content delivery and the development of reasoning with students. The research was conducted using a hypermedia-authoring program with middle-years students at an Australian secondary school. Classroom environments were created in which collaborative …
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Playing for the future: the role of gameplay, narrative and fun in computer games-based training
… rationale behind making a pedagogical shift from content delivery to designing experience. It further investigated whether games-based learning has the potential to add meaning and relevance to VET outcomes through considering the impact of the game components of narrative, fun and gameplay in a …
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Fundamentals of Cache Aided Wireless Networks
… for alleviating the severe capacity crunch in content-centric next generation 5G wireless networks by leveraging localized content storage and delivery. Caching generally works in two phases namely (i) storage phase where parts of popular content is pre-fetched and stored in caches at the …
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Secure Data Service Outsourcing with Untrusted Cloud
… two specific cloud services: cloud-based content delivery service and cloud-based data processing service. For the former one, we focus on preserving cache property in the content delivery network and propose CloudSeal, a scheme for securely and flexibly sharing and distributing content …
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Online Non -Credit Professional Development: A Study Examining the Experiences of Presenters
… presentations is easier, and that the overall delivery of an online presentation is easier. Findings for statements regarding online preparation included reaching consensus that when preparing to present online, it is important to plan for possible technology failure during the presentation, …
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Applying network coding to TCP
… such as permitting multipath packet delivery. CTCP's flow and congestion control policies are based on those of TCP Reno and TCP Vegas, which allow for prompt recovery from packet erasures and cope with congested networks. Unlike previous attempts at using network coding with TCP, …
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Robust Content Identification and De-Duplication with Scalable Fisher Vector In video with Temporal Sampling
Robust content identification and de-duplication of video content in networks and caches have many important applications in content delivery networks. In this work, we propose a scalable hashing scheme based Fisher Vector aggregation of selected key point features, and a frame significance …
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Developing a method for a holistic design of mobile learning
… course will exist; the method helps to guide the content, delivery and structure of the course towards a successful implementation that is evaluated against the initial objectives set out.
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The influence of the roles of mobile-phone users on the adoption of m-commerce activities the case of Kenya
… the adoption of m-commerce activities (i.e., content delivery, entertainment, and transactions). Mobile-phone users are individuals using mobile-phone devices for communication, transactions, entertainment, and socialization. This study defines roles as the part people play in performing …
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Core French in Eastern Ontario: a language-minority student's experience
… coordinator. Suggestions are made for improved content delivery and further research.
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Omnidirectional view and multi-modal streaming in 3D tele-immersion system
… (3DTI) technology allows full-body, multi-modal content delivery among geographically dispersed users. In 3DTI, user’s 3D model will be captured by multiple RGB-D (color plus depth) cameras surround- ing user’s body. In addition, various sensors (e.g., motion sensors, medical sensors, wearable …
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BBLiss: um sistema de streaming ao vivo entre navegadores web
… que pode ser resolvido com o uso de CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). Apesar de eficientes, as CDNs têm custo elevado e restringem a operação de sistemas de streaming a grandes empresas. Este trabalho apresenta o BBLiss (Browser-to-Browser Live Interactive Streaming System), um sistema de …
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