Your Title Could Be Doing a Lot More

Could Skype be More Satisfying?

The phenomenal growth of Skype in recent years has surpassed all expectations. Much of the application’s success is attributed to its FEC mechanism, which adds redundancy to the voice streams to sustain audio quality under network impairments. Adopting the quality-of-experience (QoE) approach, i.e., measuring the Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), we examine how much redundancy Skype adds to its voice ...

Mediastinitis: Could your case be a candidate for candida?

BACKGROUND Candida mediastinitis is rare, but mortality has been reported as high as 50%. There are no clinical trials evaluating treatment of Candida mediastinitis and there are only a limited number of reports in the literature. CASE REPORT We present two cases of mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass grafting due to Candida albicans. Immunosuppression and long surgical procedures were...

What could be more practical than a good interpretation ?

Quantum mechanics is more than the derivation of straightforward theorems about vector spaces, Hilbert spaces and functional analysis. In order to be applicable to experiment and technology, those theorems need interpretation and meaning. Interpretation is to the formalism what a scaffolding in architecture and building construction is to the completed

Not Knowing Your Random Number Generator Could Be Costly

Introduction Have you played a video game lately? Purchased something on the web? Trained a Neural Network? Used a Genetic Algorithm for optimization? Run software from Microsoft? Applied textures to a photograph? Played the stock market? If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, Random Number Generator (RNG) have affected your life. Can you trust your Random Number Generator? Can you t...

Doing Your Own Benchmark