Multimedia is gaining ever more importance on the Internet. This increases the need for intelligent and efficient video caches. A promising approach to improve caching efficiency is to adapt videos. With the availability of MPEG-4 it is possible to develop a standard compliant proxy cache that allows fast and efficient adaptation. We propose a modular design for an adaptive MPEG-4 video proxy t...

Methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (mPEG) with molecular mass of 5 kDa activated with succinimidyl carbonate and cyanuric chloride, separately was covalently attached to human red blood cells (RBCs). Inhibition of agglutination by blood-type specific antisera (anti-D) was employed to evaluate the effect of the polymer coating. The remaining single cells after incubation with anti-D sera were cou...

The problem of scheduling MPEG-4 video objects for real-time encoding on to parallel architectures is studied. It is shown the need for the analysis of the MPEG-4 video encoder and the design of a scheduler that exploits the MPEG-4 concurrency. A real-time MPEG-4 scheme should take into account characteristics such as VOPs deadlines, precedence constraints, and encoding complexity issues. Concu...

The MPEG immersive video (MIV) standard is the latest addition to MPEG-I suite of standards. It focuses on representation and coding media. MIV designed support virtual extended reality applications that require six degrees freedom visual interaction with rendered scene. Edition-1 now in its final phase standardization. Leveraging conventional 2-D codecs, efficiently codes volumetric scenes all...

Since its emerging in mid 90’s, MPEG-2 [1] has been widely accepted by the digital video industry. There have been huge amount of video content stored in MPEG-2 format. MPEG4 [2] is the latest video coding standard out of MEPG targeted at network video applications. The Simple Profile (SP) of MPEG-4 is often used in practical applications. Thus, it is often necessary to perform MPEG-2 to MPEG-4...

The blood-brain barrier is a substantial obstacle for delivering anticancer agents to brain tumors, and new strategies for bypassing it are sorely needed for brain tumor therapy. Intranasal delivery provides a practical, noninvasive method for delivering therapeutic agents to the brain. Intranasal application of nano-sized micelles that have been modified with Tat peptide facilitates brain deli...