Sound Scripts: A Word from Tura New Music

The Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference was a bold initiative by its partner presenters Tura New Music and the Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries, Edith Cowan University, Perth, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In an arts milieu which is increasingly becoming “industrialised” and the dollar the bottom line criteria for success, it is reassuring to have the confirmation that there are those—in fact there is a strong cohort—who are dedicated to delving the depths of the meaning of their own and others’ practice

Business plan: Mainsquare, an online platform to search and book instructors of any kind

Latest trends in consumerism are shifting from the "I want to have" mentality towards the "I want to experience, I want to learn" mentality. Many individuals now seek for specific experiences or possibilities to learn specific things, which are not available on the common educational market and are willing to learn things through a network of peers and experts. On the other hand, there are many people who are well trained in a specific field or have specific knowledge, which can not be monetised easily. Mainsquare.io is a global place to search and book instructors for any interest. A P2P platform where sessions are done face to face. You can learn languages, school subjects, professional subjects as well as develop skills in sports, cooking, or anything connected to enhancing skills and realising your potential. You can browse interests you would like to do / learn in the future.As últimas tendências em consumismo estão a mudar da mentalidade "eu quero ter" para a "eu quero experimentar, quero aprender ". Muitas pessoas procuram agora experiências ou possibilidades de aprender coisas específicas, que não estão disponíveis no mercado educacional comum e estão dispostas a aprender através de uma rede de colegas e especialistas. Por outro lado, existem muitas pessoas que são especialistas num campo específico ou que têm um conhecimento específico, que não pode ser monetizado de forma simples. A Mainsquare.io é uma plataforma global para pesquisar e reservar instrutores em qualquer área de interesse. Uma plataforma P2P onde as sessões são feitas tête-a-tête. Os usuários podem aprender idiomas, tópicos escolares e profissionais, bem como desenvolver competências desportivas, em culinária ou em qualquer outro campo com o intuito de aprimorar competências e fazer crescer o seu potencial

Preface: Sound Scripts: A word from Tura New Music

The Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference was a bold initiative by its partner presenters Tura New Music and the Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries, Edith Cowan University, Perth, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In an arts milieu which is increasingly becoming “industrialised” and the dollar the bottom line criteria for success, it is reassuring to have the confirmation that there are those—in fact there is a strong cohort—who are dedicated to delving the depths of the meaning of their own and others’ practice

Quality-adaptive media streaming

Thesis (Master)--Izmir Institute of Technology, Computer Engineering, Izmir, 2012Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 37-40)Text in English; Abstract: Turkish and Englishxi, 40 leavesIn this study, an adaptive method for maximizing network bandwidth utilization for real-time media streaming applications is presented. The proposed method implements a rate control approach over the transport protocol RTP. RTP is coupled with an existing multimedia codec, H.264. A controller that keeps the RTP packet loss fraction at a predefined reference point is implemented. During the course of the stream transmission, the information about the network state is generated by the RTP/RTCP and sent to the server by the clients. Packet loss fraction parameter is fed into the controller. Controlling the multimedia codec bitrate directly affects the packet transmission rate, therefore RTP packet transmission rate is also controlled. Two control approaches are proposed. Firstly, a PID controller is introduced. This PID controller is designed without any self adaptation and manually tuned to maximize all of the available bandwidth. Secondly, a model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) is proposed. This MRAC controller constantly adjusts its parameters according to a reference model. The output of the TCP Friendly Rate Control Algorithm (TFRC) is used as the model to keep the MRAC controller friendly towards other flows flows at a level that the application requires. Simulations are provided to demonstrate the operation of the proposed methods. In the simulations, a content streaming scenario is run against background traffic for the available bandwidth in a bottleneck network configuration

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On the Advantages of Using a Strict Hierarchy to Model Astrodynamical Problems

In this paper an algorithm is developed that combines the capabilities and advantages of several different astrodynamical models of increasing complexity. Splitting these models in a strict hierarchical order yields a clearer grasp on what is available. With the effort of developing a comprehensive model overhead, the equations for the spacecraft motion in simpler models can be readily obtained as particular cases. The proposed algorithm embeds the circular and elliptic restricted three-body problems, the four-body bicircular and concentric models, an averaged n-body model, and, at the top hierarchic ladder, the full ephemeris spice-based restricted n-body problem. The equations of motion are reduced to the assignment of 13 time-varying coefficients, which multiply the states and the gravitational potential to reproduce the proper vector field. This approach is powerful because it allows, for instance, an efficient and quick way to check solutions for different dynamics and parameters. It is shown how a gradual increase of the dynamics complexity greatly improves accuracy, the chances of success and the convergence rate of a continuation algorithm, applied to low-energy transfers