Understanding the growth pattern of content popularity has become a subject of immense interest to Internet service providers, content makers and on-line advertisers. This understanding is important for the sustainable deployment of content distribution systems. A significant amount of research has been done in analyzing the popularity growth patterns of YouTube videos. Unfortunately, little wo...

User Generated Content has become very popular since the birth of web services such as YouTube allowing the distribution of such user-produced media content in an easy manner. YouTube-like services are different from existing traditional VoD services because the service provider has only limited control over the creation of new content. We analyze how the content distribution in YouTube is real...

There is a substantial clinical variation in the contemporary treatment of chronic noncancer pain reflecting different explanatory models and treatment emphasis. Hunter Integrated Pain Service and collaborators developed three key messaging videos outlining the foundations of chronic pain treatment, thus challenging unwarranted clinical variation and calling for greater therapeutic consistency....

Azer SA. Mechanisms in cardiovascular diseases: how useful are medical textbooks, eMedicine, and YouTube? Adv Physiol Educ 38: 124–134, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00149.2013.—The aim of this study was to assess the contents of medical textbooks, eMedicine (Medscape) topics, and YouTube videos on cardiovascular mechanisms. Medical textbooks, eMedicine articles, and YouTube were searched for cardiov...

Today, YouTube is the largest user-driven video content provider in the world; it has become a major platform for disseminating multimedia information. A major contribution to its success comes from the user-touser social experience that differentiates it from traditional content broadcasters. This work examines the social network aspect of YouTube by measuring the fullscale YouTube subscriptio...

Introduction and Research Question With its user-friendly interface and the growth in popularity of online video, YouTube has catapulted to a dominant position on the Internet. While this model is extremely attractive for marketers and content creators, recent work has recognized the relatively ephemeral nature of popularity of videos on YouTube, where only a tiny fraction of videos managed att...

This is partly attributable to place of delivery: 37% of women deliver at home (Ndiaye & Mohamed, 2006). For the poorest quintile, 70.2% deliver at home, compared with only 5.7% for the richest. In terms of attendants at the birth, 51.9% are attended by ‘skilled personnel’ (doctor, nurse, midwife or auxiliary midwife). Again, rates are closely linked to socio-economic group. Only 7.5% deliver w...

There is probably more ignorance concerning pair-formation than there is of any other aspect of bird behavior. This paper attempts to summarize existing knowledge on this subject in order to stimulate further work. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Ernst Mayr and Dr. G. Kingsley Noble for their stimulating discussions with me, and to Dr. Alden H. Miller for seeing the paper through the press, an und...

Material tests of prosthetic feet were performed on an Instron (Canton, MA) 8521 Servohydraulic Material Testing Machine. The feet tested represent the majority of prosthetics prescriptions for prosthetic feet and included multiple samples of: Seattle Voyager and Lightfoot, College Park TruStep, Ohio Willow Wood Carbon Copy HP, Kingsley Steplite Flattie and Steplite Strider, Otto Bock Dynamic P...