The proliferation of multimedia-capable mobile devices and ubiquitous high-speed network technologies to deliver multimedia objects is fueling the demand for mobile streaming multimedia. However, the end-user experience is severely constrained by the available battery capacity on the mobile clients. Wireless network interface cards (WNIC) consume significant amounts of power. Since streaming ap...

Personal computing has evolved towards mobile and embedded devices. This trend enables users to access their media content via a variety of devices, ranging from tablets, to smartphones, smart television sets, and recently even in-vehicle infotainment systems. Platform-independent and multi-screen media consumption highlight some of the new innovative applications opportunities for mobile compu...

Understanding the consumption and production of various metabolites of fibroblast conditioned media is needed for its proper and optimized use in expansion of pluripotent stem cells. For this purpose, we have used the HPLC method to analyse the consumption of glucose and the production of lactate over time by mouse embryonic fibroblasts. The experimental data have also been compared with mathem...

Power consumption is a leading concern when running applications on battery operated devices such as handhelds and laptops. This concern is heightened when accessing multimedia streams, owing to their high CPU requirement, and their realtime characteristics. Various techniques have been devised to optimize power consumption while maintaining the quality of the media presentation. Solutions rang...

This paper discusses self-perceived observations of social media use among undergraduate students. 132 media diaries are analyzed in order to identify media usage patterns, profiles and emotions expressed as a consequence of an extensive and frequent social media use. By asking the students to report in detail of their media use and to reflect on their behavior in a personal media diary, we go ...

Consumption is very important in the modern society and cultural consumption is based on industrial societies. Mass media and propogation has a significant role in modern society. In the research, the variables such as family, independent, physical and psychological health are among the cultural capital. The survey method was used here for the study. 400 female students were chosen randomly and...

Accurate prediction of user attributes from social media is valuable for both social science analysis and consumer targeting. In this paper, we propose a systematic method to leverage user online social media content for predicting offline restaurant consumption level. We utilize the social login as a bridge and construct a dataset of 8,844 users who have been linked across Dianping (similar to...