This lecture is about different techniques used for video streaming to improve performance and Quality of Experience (QoE). Specifically, we learned about ”neural adaptive video streaming with Pensieve” [1]. Pensieve adaptively selects bitrates (ABR) for future video chunks based on observations collected by client video players. It automatically learns ABR algorithms that adapt to a wide range...

Introduction: In recent decades, medical education has been following new approaches to early clinical exposure. This study was designed to determine early clinical exposure (ECE) objectives and their availability and importance from the participants’ viewpoint. Methods: In a descriptive study, 70 students who had participated in ECE at Isfahan Medical University were asked to complete a quest...

The article summarizes the essence and content of a state knowledge-based economy. Actual problems of the knowledge-based economy in the Russian Federation have been considered; the emphasis here is on the innovative component of this complex multi-component economic process. The authors analyze the main challenges of the knowledge-based economy in Russia and offer a transition from a resource-...

Motivated by recent innovations in service delivery such as ride-sharing services and work-from-home call centers, we study capacity management when workers self-schedule. The service provider seeks to maximize its profit (revenue from served customers minus capacity costs) when it controls capacity only indirectly. Agents choose when to work based on the compensation offered and their individu...

We are experiencing a digital revolution that is rapidly changing the way business is conducted. In this new economy, information is shared speedily and many participants are collaborating. Effective and seamless collaboration between distributed supply chain members is therefore crucial. To understand how this may be done, we describe a knowledge based framework for abstracting, enriching, ana...

The study examined relationship between the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Nigeria with the inputs of labour, capital and the output of fisheries. This is to ascertain that the fisheries contribution to the economy is more than is recorded in the sense that taking its indirect and direct economic impact into account, its overall contribution to the GDP of Nigeria may be higher than that measur...

ABSTRACT We propose and find that aggregate special items conveys more information about future real GDP growth than earnings before because the former contains advance news economic outcomes. A two-stage rational expectations test reveals professional forecasters fully understand content of items, but underestimate when revising their forecasts. Using vector autoregressions, we show has predic...