... temporal StochasticModelingof the Spatiotemporal Wavelet Coefficients and Applications 1939 Table 2: MSE of the reconstruction of the first frame of the original sequence, when prediction of a subband ... Sections 5, 6, and 7, we demonstrate the efficiency of our model in the quality enhancement and error concealment methods of scalable video Section concludes this paper STOCHASTICMODELINGOF THE SPATIOTEMPORAL ... our model is able to StochasticModelingof the Spatiotemporal Wavelet Coefficients and Applications 1941 Table 4: MSE of the reconstructed first frame of a GOF of original sequence “foreman” when...
... and foremost, the experience and advice of our partner and cofounder Tom Keeven The process and technology portions of this book were built over time with the help of Tom and his many years of ... management, and leadership Far too often, managers and leaders are promoted based on their talents within their area of expertise Engineering leaders and managers, for example, are very often promoted ... a demand forecast and handing it off to the person responsible for capacity analysis and planning The capacity planner takes a look at the types of demand forecasted by the business unit and translates...
... reliance and strengthening of your strengths and the mitigation of your weaknesses Few people fail in their objectives because oftheir strengths and few people win as a result oftheir weaknesses We ... benefits of a functional structure include the homogeneity of management and peers, simplicity of responsibilities, ease of task assignment, and the greater adherence to standards The drawbacks of ... dollar Ponzi schemes and we don’t believe that people start off by misstating tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue or embezzling tens of millions of dollars of money from a company...
... disaggregation of goals into their associated projects and tasks, the assignment of individuals and organizations to those tasks, the measurement of progress, communication of status, and resolution of issues ... think of professional sports teams or Navy SEALS or Delta Force The one thing all of these organizations have in common is a set of shared experiences and shared trials created over thousands and ... reasons that we create and maintain processes are the standardization of how to perform tasks and what to in the event of procedural uncertainty In our consulting practice, we are often faced with...
... reduce and ideally eliminate the frequency and impact of aircraft accidents during takeoff and landing at airports just as change management exists to reduce the frequency and impact of changes ... connection of network cables to network devices, and powering on and off systems As a general rule, any time any one of your employees needs to touch, twiddle, prod, or poke any piece of hardware, software, ... completion of the current set of actions, as well as the development of the next set of actions Other members should be managers of the technical teams assembled to help solve the crisis and one of the...
... each of the technology groups, tradeoffs between hardware, software, middleware, and build versus buy approaches can help shave time to market, cost of development and cost of operations, and ... amount of risk, and we will cover some of the best ones that we have seen, including the pros and cons of each method At the end of this chapter, you will have a much better grasp of risk and understand ... design and architecture of key features The three of them worked the rest of the afternoon to rough out the process, including who should be permanent members of the board (the three of them) and...
... scalability of your system and the adoption of the performance and stress testing processes As we cautioned previously in the discussion of the stress test, the creation of the test load is not easy, and ... list of candidates grows, so does the list of companies for which the candidates have worked Additionally, given the growth of AllScale, the number of employees has grown as have their first and ... quality and reduce the cost of developing your product by detecting early when you are off course But processes alone are not always enough Even the best of teams, with the best processesand great...
... login and logout functionality, another read and update profile, another server handles “contact individual” and “receive contacts,” and the last server handles all of the other functions of your ... readers, and meeting notes might vary by the type of meeting, and so on The vast majority of the work may be letters to clients of a certain format and typed on a specific type of letterhead and bond ... range of tasks from the invoicing of clients to the receipt of bills, the processing of delinquent accounts, and finally the deposit of funds into our bank account(s) The processes for each of these...
... order to off load the requests on their Web servers • Many CDNs use the Internet as their backbone and offer their servers to host your content 391 392 C HAPTER 25 C ACHING FOR P ERFORMANCE AND S ... covering some of the basics of synchronization, starting with a definition and some different types of synchronization methods The process of synchronization refers to the use and coordination of simultaneously ... “availability” of the string of lights was the product of the availability (1—the probability of failure) of all the lights If any light had a 99.999% availability or a 0.001% chance of failure and there...
... educated and experienced in the building and operation of a data center? • Are there a number of transit providers in the area and how good has their service been to other consumers oftheir service? ... fits into some of our processes including the headroom and capacity planning processes from Chapter 11, Determining Headroom for Applications, and incident and crisis management processes from ... service consisting of several functions or applications running on a pool of servers and we lump this loose group of hardware and software into a “system.” Most monitoring systems and platforms have...
... caching and moved all serving and data processing into Amazon’s EC2 cloud Because of the ShareThis architecture and need for large amounts of compute processing for data, this combination of a CDN and ... 9:45 AM and they stop at 11:15 AM This gives us 1½ hours of downtime on one of our services A simple method of calculating the availability is to take 1/5 of the downtime, because one of the five ... outage day and determine how much of your site’s traffic and thus users were affected The way to this is determine the area between the graphs, and this is representative of the amount of downtime...
... technologies and biological questions, of different model abstraction levels, andof different disciplines of science First, biologist collaborators were often unfamiliar with the use of computational modeling ... Notation, analysis, andsimulationof biochemical models Represented in ODE format Supports stochastic simulations Graphical representation and formatting of biochemical ... (defined by the scale and offset values) for all experiments Total cell lysate data were offset and normalized to have a highest value of 10 Membrane fractionation data were offset and normalized such...
... experiments and simulations on different patterns (aligned, random and staggered) of sailfish skin and ‘V’ protrusions2 The staggered sailfish skin protrusions and those presented by Sirovich and Karlsson ... spacing of 400 wall units and an amplitude of only 6% of centerline velocity 16 turbulent flow, which could be explained by the theory of Iuso et al (2002) However, the power for ejection of the ... reduction capabilities of corrugated surface were firstly investigated using perturbation method and numerical simulations (Direct Numerical Simulationand Detach Eddy Simulation) Additionally,...
... → and N u0 /N u0 → Table 2.1 clearly shows that the results of Cf /Cf and N u0 /N u0 exhibit the trend of convergence On the other hand, the influence of the time step size Δt+ is very small and ... Verification of numerical methods In this section, the time-averaged and statistical results of DNS and DES are compared with empirical formula and published numerical results to validate their accuracy ... variances of the friction and Nusselt number ratios (i.e Cf /Cf and N u0 /N u0 ) are respectively only 1% and 0.1%, indicating the consistency of present results 61 which are fairly independent of the...
... of predicted velocity and random components, see Eq 5.3 The velocity fluctuations and mean spanwise and vertical velocities w and v tend towards 10−9 value during the development of the flow, and ... and how the turbulent term of skin friction Cf t is manipulated 3.3.4.1 Turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds stress In this section, all components of Reynolds stress—u , v , w , u v , u w and ... perturbation of S at small α In order to ensure the accuracy of analysis of drag reduction mechanisms, the numerical simulation results are used in the following sections of laminar flow, §3.2.4, §3.2.5 and...
... (depth ratio h/D = 10%) and Case (depth ratio h/D = 15%) Tables 4.1 and 4.2 summarize the configurations of Case and Case 3, and Figure 4.5 shows the position of deepest point of dimple for different ... asymmetric dimple of Case 2C.4 (Dx = 17.5%, Dz = 0%) is intentionally carried out since the trend of increasing N u/N u0 and the slightly decreasing trend of Cf /Cf with the increase of Dx (and Dz = 0%) ... upstream 4.3.3 Effect of asymmetry versus effect of depth To further compare the performance of asymmetric dimple and symmetric dimple, Cf /Cf , N u/N u0 , Ga/Ga0 and Gv/Gv0 of asymmetric dimple...
... front ridge of the second row of 207 protrusions and is lifted up and forms a new pair of contra-rotating vortices (planes 3–5) Then the fluid flows around the top and backward-facing ridge of the second ... backward-facing ridge of the first row of protrusions, then flows through the valley between the second row of protrusions, and finally arrives at the upstream or forward-facing ridge of the third row of protrusion ... tail region of the valley between the first row of protrusions and arrives at the front ridge of the second row of protrusion, then consequently flows over the forward-facing ridge and the backward-facing...