Clinical Chemistry is pleased to announce the launching of a new initiative, called the “Clinical Chemistry Trainee Council,” that will provide educational materials to trainees in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. This program combines the Journal’s commitment to education and its mission to disseminate information to laboratory scientists throughout the world. In the past 3 years, c...

CAROLYN A. LIN University of Connecticut [email protected] Broadcasting over the internet presents a new frontier for media and advertising industries to conquer. At the local level, the greatest asset of a television station is its "localism"—with the audience still regarding television stations as the most effective source for local weather, traffic, and sports news as well as advertising...

The increased availability of broadband connections has recently led to an increase in the use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed numerous times retrospectively. One of the hurdles users face when browsing and skimming through archives is the lack of text transcripts of the audio channel of the webcast archive. In this paper, we proposed a procedure f...

New information and computing technologies promise new virtual learning and communication opportunities within the real communities of health care professionals. The Assisted Electronic Communication project has been prototyping, administering and evaluating an integrated digital discourse, webcasting and digital newsletter system, for health care professionals within one such community an acut...

A growing number of lecture webcasts are archived after being delivered live. In the absence of transcripts, users are faced with increased difficulty in performing tasks easily achieved with text documents (retrieval, browsing, skimming). Unfortunately, speech recognition systems do not perform satisfactorily when transcribing lectures. In this paper, we present an overview of the ePresence le...

In recent years, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to "three rural issues." this context, paper adopts a field survey method review several typical models of e-commerce sort out current development e-commerce. terms business models, main businesses include live streaming and short video sharing agricultural supply sources, product sharing, evaluation, community-based exc...

BACKGROUND There is little evidence to compare the effectiveness of large collaborative quality improvement versus individual local projects. METHODS This was a prospective pre-post intervention study of neonatal resuscitation practice, comparing 3 groups of nonrandomized hospitals in the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative: (1) collaborative, hospitals working together through fa...

Distributed collaboration and webcasting applications are complex distributed applications that require control of multimedia equipment (e.g., cameras, microphones, switchers, projectors, audio systems, etc.) and processes that capture, play, and operate on audio and video streams. These applications typically use multicast communication protocols because data must be delivered to many particip...

As the use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting) increases, more webcasts will be archived and accessed numerous times retrospectively. One challenge in skimming and browsing through such archives is the lack of textual transcripts of the archived medias’ audio channel. Ideally, transcripts would be obtainable through Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, current ASR systems can only del...

There has been tremendous growth in popularity of multiple receiver applications like media streaming and data distribution services. The Internet is being increasingly used as a transport for carrying high bandwidth media streams of training and education classes, broadcast events, etc. Webcasts like “Victoria’s Secret Event” and “NetAid Event” might have been much better realized with IP mult...