Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards
Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards

Author: Marina Bosi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1461503272

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Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards provides a detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology. In the book, the theory and implementation of each of the basic coder building blocks is addressed. The building blocks are then fit together into a full coder and the reader is shown how to judge the performance of such a coder. Finally, the authors discuss the features, choices, and performance of the main state-of-the-art coders defined in the ISO/IEC MPEG and HDTV standards and in commercial use today. The ultimate goal of this book is to present the reader with a solid enough understanding of the major issues in the theory and implementation of perceptual audio coders that they are able to build their own simple audio codec. There is no other source available where a non-professional has access to the true secrets of audio coding.

Multimedia Systems
Multimedia Systems

Author: Ralf Steinmetz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 3662088789

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Multimedia Systems discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia operating systems, networking and communication, and multimedia middleware systems. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental characteristics of multimedia operating and distributed communication systems are presented, especially scheduling algorithms and other OS supporting approaches for multimedia applications with soft-real-time deadlines, multimedia file systems and servers with their decision algorithms for data placement, scheduling and buffer management, multimedia communication, transport, and streaming protocols, services with their error control, congestion control and other Quality of Service aware and adaptive algorithms, synchronization services with their skew control methods, and group communication with their group coordinating algorithms and other distributed services.

Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Author: Gerhard Nahler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 3709140161

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This dictionary is aimed primarily at the beginners entering the new discipline of Pharmaceutical Medicine, an area comprising aspects of toxicology, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, epidemiology, statistics, drug regulatory and legal affairs, medicine and marketing. But also more experienced colleagues in departments engaged in clinical development as well as researchers and marketing experts in the pharmaceutical industry will find concise and up-to-date information. The book is completed by a list of a about 1000 abbreviations encountered in pharmaceutical medicine and a compilation of important addresses of national and international health authorities.

Understanding COVID-19: The Role of Computational Intelligence
Understanding COVID-19: The Role of Computational Intelligence

Author: Janmenjoy Nayak

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 3030747611

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This book provides a comprehensive description of the novel coronavirus infection, spread analysis, and related challenges for the effective combat and treatment. With a detailed discussion on the nature of transmission of COVID-19, few other important aspects such as disease symptoms, clinical application of radiomics, image analysis, antibody treatments, risk analysis, drug discovery, emotion and sentiment analysis, virus infection, and fatality prediction are highlighted. The main focus is laid on different issues and futuristic challenges of computational intelligence techniques in solving and identifying the solutions for COVID-19. The book drops radiance on the reasons for the growing profusion and complexity of data in this sector. Further, the book helps to focus on further research challenges and directions of COVID-19 for the practitioners as well as researchers.

The Information Age
The Information Age

Author: David Stephen Alberts

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13:

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The Information Age: An Anthology on Its Impacts and Consequences was originally prepared by The Center for Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. The original four volumes have been combined into one volume for this printing. They are: Part One: The Information and Communication Revolution Part Two: Business, Commerce, and Services Part Three: Government and the Military Part Four: International Affairs

Telehealth in the Developing World
Telehealth in the Developing World

Author: Richard Wootton

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1853157848

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A new addition to the successful telehealth series,Telehealth in the Developing Worldaims to balance the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world.

Leveraging Data Science for Global Health
Leveraging Data Science for Global Health

Author: Leo Anthony Celi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 3030479943

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This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to disruption of ecosystems, civil unrest, and poor healthcare infrastructure – and without comprehensive surveillance, delays in outbreak identification, resource deployment, and case management can be catastrophic. In combination with context-informed analytics, students will learn how non-traditional digital disease data sources – including news media, social media, Google Trends, and Google Street View – can fill critical knowledge gaps and help inform on-the-ground decision-making when formal surveillance systems are insufficient.

Learning and Collaboration Technologies
Learning and Collaboration Technologies

Author: Panayiotis Zaphiris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319394824

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, in conjunction with 14 thematically similar conferences. The 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. The papers cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The papers included in this volume are organized in the following thematic sections: instructional design; interaction techniques and platforms for learning; learning performance; web-based, mobile and ubiquitous learning; intelligent learning environments; learning technologies; collaboration technologies; and cultural and social aspects of learning and collaboration technologies.