Widespread availability of high-speed networks and fast, cheap computation have rendered highquality Media-on-Demand (MoD) feasible. Research on scalable MoD has resulted in many efficient schemes that involve segmentation and asynchronous broadcast of media data, requiring clients to buffer and reorder out-of-order segments efficiently for serial playout. In such schemes, buffer space requirem...

Hagfish produce vast amounts of slime when under attack. The slime is the most dilute hydrogel known to date, and is a highly interesting material for biomaterial research. It forms from a glandular secrete, called exudate, which deploys upon contact with seawater. To study slime formation ex vivo and to characterize its material properties, stabilization of the sensitive slime exudate is cruci...

Response surface methodology (RSM) using a central composite design (CCD) was employed to optimize the conditions for extraction of serine protease from kesinai (Streblus asper) leaves. The effect of independent variables, namely temperature (42.5,47.5, X₁), mixing time (2-6 min, X₂), buffer content (0-80 mL, X₃) and buffer pH (4.5-10.5, X₄) on specific activity, storage stability, temperature ...

Content delivery is one of the most important technologies used in Mobile Social Networks (MSNs). Smart devices could enable mobile users to create and use a rich set of services through available resources in the surrounding environment opportunistically. This paper presents the framework of distributed buffer storage aided hybrid Mobile Social Networks (MSN). Based on this, we propose a new s...

The design of a power buffer to mitigate the negative impact of constant power loads on voltage stability as well as enhancing ride-through capability for the loads during upstream voltage disturbances is examined. The power buffer adjusts its front-end converter control so that the buffer-load combination would appear as a constant impedance load to the upstream supply system when depressed vo...

The use of batteries to provide storage for photovoltaic power has been evaluated in various contexts. In gridconnected applications, batteries can serve to provide firm peak-shaving for distributed PV installations. To date, however, the use of batteries from parked electricdrive vehicles (EDV) to provide buffer storage for PV capacity value has not been analyzed. The emerging vehicle to grid ...

In this paper a network QoS controller is designed. We use the controller to quantification ally control QoS under the random network traffic. The controller is built by min-plus algebra based on network calculus. The controller includes two parts, the lossless fractal regulator and the finite variable storage shaper (FVSS). We can get the arrival curve with the lossless fractal regulator. Then...

Most prior work on congestion in datagram systems focuses on buffer management. We find it illuminating to consider the case of a packet switch with infinite storage. Such a packet switch can never run out of buffers. It can, however, still become congested. The meaning of congestion in an infinite-storage system is explored. We demonstrate the unexpected result that a datagram network with inf...

The following tutorial paper describes how a block-structured mass storage device, such as a Winchester disk drive, may be made to function as part of a digital audio recording and editing system: the so-called 'tapeless recorder'. It outlines the principles of random access sound file storage and buffering, together with a discussion of digital audio requirements and the historical precedent f...