the down-flow hanging sponge (dhs) reactor, which was developed for post-treatment of effluent from up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (uasb) process treating sewage, uses polyurethane sponge as media to retain biomass. wastewater is trickled from the top of the reactor and purified by microorganisms retained both inside and outside of the sponge media as the wastewater flows vertically down thro...

the aim of this paper is to show that modern media are not totally independent of the older media and that there is, specifically, a kind of language transfer from older media such as television to the modern ones. although internet users enjoy relatively more freedom in the virtual reality public domains compared with real public domains, their political communications in negotiation rooms are...

In the earlier lesson, you have learnt about different kinds of traditional media. Have you ever thought about the difference between traditional media and electronic media like television? It is important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the both the mediums. Only after this, one can use the appropriate medium for the required communication. This is because the same type of me...

With more and more video resources shared on the Web, the practice of sharing a video object from a certain time point (deep-linking) has been implemented by many video sharing platforms. With so many media fragments created, annotated and shared, however, indexing video objects on a fine-grained level on the Web scale is still not implemented by major search engines. To solve this problem, thi...

the potential of bulk starter fermentation strategy for production of a cost-effective and safe source of β-galactosidase was investigated. three different bulk starter media with different compositions were selected, and an industrial yogurt starter culture strain, l. bulgaricus dsm 20081 was cultivated in these media under ph-controlled conditions (ph=5.6) at 43°c. the media consisted of 1) b...

New media as they are established by information and communications technology demand for reconsidering the notion of a medium as a carrier of information and with it the concepts for representation, organization, processing and dissemination of information. We explore a general model for media, the Computational Media Metaphor and utilize Rewriting Logic and Labelled Deductive Systems to model...

This paper reviews how the concept of Media Crossing has contributed to the advancement of the application domain of information access and explores directions for a future research agenda. These will include themes that could help to broaden the scope and to incorporate the concept of medium-crossing in a more general approach that not only uses combinations of medium-specific processing, but ...

Motivated by the growing importance of social media, this paper examines the relationship between new media, old media, and sales, in the context of the music industry. In particular, we study the interplay between blog buzz, radio play and music sales, at both the album and song levels of analysis. We employ the Panel Vector Auto-regression (PVAR) methodology, an extension of vector auto-regre...

Recently, we have developed a unified approach to QED in arbitrary linearly responding media in equilibrium—media that give rise to absorption [Phys. Rev. A 75, (2007) 053813]. In the present paper we show that, under appropriate conditions, the theory can be quite naturally generalized to amplifying media the effect of which is described within the framework of linear response theory. We discu...