Research carried out in the context of the CONTENT Network of Excellence aims at investigating novel paradigms for the provision of AV services to user communities by means of self-organizing overlays and hybrid Content Delivery Networks. Being in the age of mobile telecommunications, the CONTENT architectural framework cannot ignore that an increasing number of users require access to such ser...

quality of service (qos) refers to a set of rules or techniques that help the network administrators use the available network resources optimally to manage the effects of congestion and to treat the applications according to their needs. the differentiated services architecture (diffserv) allows providing quality of service to users. the major diffserv premise is that individual flows with sim...

what are the main success factors of microfinance institutions in providing financial services to poor people in a sustainable manner? in this article we try to answer this question. in one hand, we analyze the core compatibility between microeconomics of asymmetric information, transaction cost and risk, and new different operational mechanisms applied by microfinance institutions. on the othe...

Content networks (CNs) are being introduced to extend content distribution networks (CDNs) with content creation, modification, management, and placement mechanisms to support value-added services and modern applications. This paper presents a CN-based architecture supporting collaborative media streaming services which allow a synchronous group of users to select, watch and control a multimedi...

background: patient satisfaction has a key role in reducing side effects and patient complaints. it also increases the efficiency of treatment. this study was performed to investigate patient satisfaction from health services provided by educational hospitals in isfahan, iran. methods: in a descriptive study, 350 outpatients in educational hospitals of isfahan were non-randomly evaluated in 200...