MPEG-7 constitutes a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. It can be expected that a lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions will be set up in the near future. Therefore, means for the adequate management of large amounts of MPEG-7-compliant media descriptions are certainly desirable. Essentially, MPEG-7 media descriptions are XML documents following media...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Otitis media is the most common bacterial infection among children, accounting for as many as 30 million office visits annually. Proper treatment has become critical as offending pathogens become increasingly resistant to antibiotics and the cost of managing the disorder has exceeded 3 billion dollars per year. However, data suggest that many practitioners still struggle with ...

Introduction: While social media has the potential to be used tomake professional and personal connections, it can also be usedinappropriately, with detrimental ramifications for the individualin terms of their professional reputation and even hiringdecisions. This research explored students’ and faculty members’perceptions of the acceptability of various social media postings.Methods: This cro...

Social media statistics during recent disasters (e.g. the 20 million tweets relating to ‘Sandy’ storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) suggest that the understanding and management of real-world events by civil protection and law enforcement agencies could benefit from the effective blending of social media information into their resilience processes. In this ...

This paper investigates capabilities of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Digg and others, for their current and potential impact on the supply chain. In particular, this paper examines the use of social media to capture the impact on supply chain events and develop a context for those events. This paper also analyzes the use of social media in the supply chain to build relati...

Social media is bringing great challenges and wonderful opportunities for organizational learning. With support of social media, organizations may facilitate the knowledge management process within firms (e.g., knowledge sharing), then to encourage employees to promote collaborative learning behaviors from e-learning to social learning. There is a significant trend in the recent studies is incr...

Title of Dissertation: MANAGING AND EXPLORING PERSONAL MEDIA USING SEMANTIC REGIONS: A SPATIAL INTERFACE SUPPORTING USER-DEFINED MENTAL MODELS Hyunmo Kang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ben Shneiderman Department of Computer Science Computer users deal with large numbers of personal media objects such as images, audio clips, video clips, web pages, emails, and v...

This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a multi-service streaming system for broadcast of MPEG4 elementary streams. The proposed system promotes the use of the push channel model for information distribution [1]. The system architecture accommodates two main layers for broadcast service management and media delivery. The broadcast service management layer uses the publisher-s...

Knowledge management (KM) in a business-to-business (B2B) network is a different task than intraorganizational KM. Therefore this conceptual paper searches for an answer to the question of what we should re-search in this more demanding KM environment. We suggest that the social media provides a variety of vehicles for performing organizational learning via KM in B2B networks. Since this is rel...

Starting from the notion of the organization as a capital-conversion system, the full article provides organizations with a structured approach for developing a social media strategy that can generate capital out of the apparent chaotic and unmanageable flood of unstructured individual opinions that arrive via social media. The approach links organizational strategy to capital-generation goals ...