Obstetric anesthesia is one of the high risk subspecialties of anesthesia practice. Anesthesia related complications are the sixth leading cause of maternal mortality. Difficult or failed intubation following induction of general anesthesia for CS remains the major contributory factor to anesthesia-related maternal complications. The airway management of obstetric patients is a challenging issu...

S. Huttunen, J. Heikkilä and O. Silvén Machine Vision Group, Infotech Oulu Department of Electrical and Information Engineering P.O. Box 4500, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland {samhut, jth, olli}@ee.oulu.fi Abstract Videoconferencing technology offers new possibilities for distance education, as it provides an interactive way to teach remote students. To provide proper interactivity and to...

The aim of this paper is to provide a standpoint on an emerging trend in sharing digital video content over the Internet. The paper is based on participative evaluative analysis of business model employed by digital video content sharing providers. The authors have found that because of wide diffusion of broadband and cheap video recording equipment, enabling digital video content to be shared ...

this study concerns to analyze femininity identity by psychoanalysis approach of lacan. psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most areas of debate within feminist artists. the main question of this research is: “how does video art show the femininity identity?” so, initially we tried to categorize different influential concepts of lacan’s psychoanalysis which is necessary to get to know his at...

There are three ways to characterize encoded video for the purpose of networking research: (i) video traffic model, (ii) video bit stream, and (iii) video traffic trace. Video traffic models strive to capture the essential properties of the real traffic in parsimonious mathematical models. Video traffic models are typically developed based on the statistical properties of samples of the real tr...

In this paper, we propose a novel 2D-to-3D video conversion method for 3D entertainment applications. 3D entertainment is getting more and more popular and can be found in many contexts, such as TV and home gaming equipment. 3D image sensors are a new method to produce stereoscopic video content conveniently and at a low cost, and can thus meet the urgent demand for 3D videos in the 3D entertai...

In this paper, we propose a new full-fuzzy video ratecontrol algorithm (RCA) for variable bit rate (VBR) videoapplications. The proposed RCA provides high qualitycompressed video with a low degree computational complexity.By controlling the quantization parameter (QP) on a picturebasis, it produces VBR video bit streams. The proposed RCAhas been implemented on the JM H.264/AVC video codec andth...

In this paper, the author introduces a video capture system based on embedded Linux PXA270 platform. First, the paper briefly introduces PXA270 platform. The author then describes implementation of video capture on the platform. The system captures a real-time video stream by USB camera and designs video program by Video 4 Linux APIs. The paper particularly presents the method and process of re...

According to WHO, at any one time, around 50 per cent of medical equipment in lowand middle-income countries cannot be used because of lack of maintenance or spare parts.1 We have found that unwillingness or inability to repair equipment and put it back in use is also a major cause. New equipment is made available by different international non-government organisations (INGOs) competing with on...

The rollout of multiple radio access mobile communication networks raises new challenges regarding quality of provided mobile services. Voice and video telephony are the key services that must continuously be under performance assessment and optimization. Speech and video quality in live GSM and UMTS networks are crucial performance indicators which can be measured and evaluated via drive-tests...