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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Services to users"”.
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Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources - An ETANA-DL Case Study
… delay, providing a sustainable approach to long-term preservation of data, and providing a suite of services to users of the system. In this thesis, we describe how digital library techniques can be employed to provide solutions to these problems and describe our experiences in creating a …
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Use of social media as a marketing tool by the City of Cape Town Libraries
Social media has become a popular tool adopted by libraries and play a major role in marketing library services, facilitating communication between libraries and staff, and assisting libraries in connecting with communities. The use of social media by City of Cape Town Libraries has been recently …
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The impact of reduced hours on public library services in Cape Town: the case of Eersterivier Public Library
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of reduced hours on public library services in Cape Town through taking the Eersterivier Library, as a case study. The research problem comes from the author's personal experience as a librarian in the City of Cape Town whose library's usage …
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A goal-oriented user interface for personalized semantic search
Users have high-level goals when they browse the Web or perform searches. However, the two primary user interfaces positioned between users and the Web, Web browsers and search engines, have very little interest in users' goals. Present-day Web browsers provide only a thin interface between users …
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A study of multimedia service delivery in the home for femtocells
… considers the case of Ubiquisys Ltd., a femtocell company, and the ability for its products to provide added services to users in the home. The findings include recommendations for software applications, application delivery, timing, and pricing. The actions that should be taken as a result …
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Smart Product Design Methodology
… (IoT), and their continuous developments in today’s market, have paved the way for an apparent transformation from conventional products to smart connected products. Smart products are Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that provide services to users through Internet and Communication capabilities. …
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Pushing the limits of traditional unsupervised learning
… improved resource management and delivery of services to users. Although deep learning methods have become popular due to their success in the supervised learning problem of classification and unsupervised learning problems of feature extraction and cluster analysis, traditional machine …
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Effects of denial of service attack in WIFI-broadband networks.
… in Broadband- Wi-Fi networks involving public sector networks. Over the recent past, Wireless communications have become increasingly popular in our everyday life and the world has become increasingly mobile. Traditional "wired" networks have proven inadequate to meet the challenges posed in this …
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Effects of denial of service attack in WIFI-broadband networks.
… in Broadband- Wi-Fi networks involving public sector networks. Over the recent past, Wireless communications have become increasingly popular in our everyday life and the world has become increasingly mobile. Traditional "wired" networks have proven inadequate to meet the challenges posed in this …
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Mobility Management in 5G Heterogeneous Networks: A Handover Scheme for Reducing Handover Failures
… decades. Communications will inevitably evolve into the next generation of wireless communications, in which users will be connected via heterogeneous networks. Small cell (SC)-based ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets), which are underlaid on the coverage of a macro cell, are among the …
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A framework to provide charging for third party composite services
… the telecommunications industry has been geared towards offering new and innovative services to end users. A decade ago network operators were content with offering simple services such as voice and text messaging. However, they began to notice that these services were generating lower revenues …
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A Network-aware Virtual Machine Placement approach for Data-intensive Applications in a Cloud environment
Cloud computing provides beneficial services to users, enabling them to share large amounts of information, employ Storage Nodes (SN), utilise Computing Nodes (CN) and gather knowledge for research. Virtual Machines (VMs) usually host data-intensive applications, which submit thousands of jobs that …
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Student adoption and perceptions of the library and information mobile services at the University of Namibia
The aim of the study was to examine students' adoption and perceptions of library and information mobile services at the University of Namibia (UNAM), Main Campus. The research objectives were: to assess factors influencing students' adoption and use of wireless technologies that enable them to …
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Reliable broadband satellite-integrated network design through propagation and networking solutions
… role in the deployment of commercial networks to meet an increasing demand for supporting multimedia services at high data rates. Next generation satellite systems, operating at high frequency bands offer large bandwidth and are able to provide broadband services. To interface satellite links …
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Automated library networking in American public community college Learning Resources Centers
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of community college Learning Resources Centers' participation in automated library networking (ALN), to identify the factors which influenced or inhibited participation, to identify the benefits gained and the problems encountered due to …
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Impact of social relation on the self actualization of the adolescent
… information by libraries with special reference to computerized databases. For the purposes of this study, four hypotheses were set, being: the appropriateness of copyright law; the restriction on access to information; author's remuneration for his work; and the interpretation of the law of …
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Conversational Agent for Health Coaching
… challenges we are facing, and are related to individuals lifestyle. In fact, a poor lifestyle is strongly correlated to chronic diseases, the leading causes for morbidity and mortality. Adhering to a healthy diet and following an active lifestyle are thus necessary to promote the overall …
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Resource Allocation in Vehicular Cloud Computing
… computing is that it provides scalable access to computing resources and to a multitude of IT services. Cloud computing and cloud IT services have seen and continue to see a phenomenal adoption rate around the world.</p> <p>Recently, Professor Olariu and his coworkers through series of research …