Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2008. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Zugl.: Darmstadt, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2008

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-78).

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-63).

This study focuses on the proactive methods against illegal downloading. This study will look into the new implemented IPRED law that could be seen as one attempt to prevent the illegal downloading. Furthermore, this study investigates how new services such as Spotify can be a legal alternative to the illegal downloading and also how the music industry has handled the transition from CD sales to the new digital media.   Our research consists of both qualitative and quantitative study where a survey has been conducted among 50 people in Jönköping University. The study also consists of two interviews from experts within the field which gave the study more credibility.   We discovered through our research that the music industry has been going through four different phases and that the actual state the music industry is that they have started to accept the technology and adjust their business to it. We have also discovered through our survey that the IPRED law has had an impact in the fight against illegal downloading. The winner is Spotify that most users have turned to when the IPRED law was introduced.

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The goal of the thesis is to analyse and coherently describe a branch that haven't been sufficiently described in professional literature yet. To reach this goal thesis uses author's experience with specific share server development and operation and puts it as an example on which it explains all the important attributes and dependencies. Diploma thesis is aimed to an issue of internet file sharing. In it's first part it describes file sharing in general including history of internet file sharing. Two case studies of the most popular but different share servers follow. The thesis aims on business, technical, social and legal aspects of file sharing using share servers. In it's practical part the thesis aims on the specific share server project and especially cares of process, business, technical and user aspects. Within the process part running processes and their meaning for the whole share server project are analysed. The business part describes the dependencies of profit and costs components on individual variable attributes of share server system a it's environment. The technical part focuses on hardware, software and network devices from which share server is composed. In the part which focuses on the user interface and usability author critically evaluates the actual state of share server's website and describes possible improvements especially in the area of usability. In the last part of the thesis author evaluates the current state of share servers branch and estimates it's future development.

This thesis describes the work of two students in collaboration with OpenSpace and the Community Coordinated Modelling Center (CCMC). The need expressed by both parties is a way to more accessibly visualize space weather data from the CCMC in OpenSpace. Firstly, space weather data is preprocessed for downloading and visualizing, a process that involves reducing the size of the data whilst keeping important features. Secondly, a pipeline is created for dynamically fetching the time varying data from the web during runtime of OpenSpace. A sliding window technique is employed to manage the downloading of the data. The results show a complete and working system for downloading data during runtime. Measurements of the performance of running the space weather visualizations by dynamically downloading versus running them locally, show that the new system impacts the frame time marginally. The results also show a visualization of space weather data with enhanced features, which facilitate the exploration of the data, and creates a more comprehensible representation of the data. Data is originally kept in a tabular FITS file format, and file sizes after data reduction and feature extractionare approximately 3% of the original file sizes.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.