scholarly journals HORTICULTURE INTERACTIVE VIDEO PROGRAMS IN VIRGINIA

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1113g-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Ness ◽  
Leslye Bloom ◽  
P. Diane Relf ◽  
Mary Miller
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Video ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Cut Flowers ◽  
Information Program ◽  
Video Systems ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Touch Screen Monitor ◽  
Media Delivery

Horticulture information is being placed at the fingertips of Virginia citizens through the use of Public Information Interactive Video Systems. A personal computer (with a touch-screen monitor) and laserdisc player work together to offer a multi-media delivery system. The user moves through programs by simply touching the screen to browse, skip ahead, back up, look up specific information, and print out needed information. A program on household plants contains photographs and information on 131 popular cut flowers and houseplants. A program on selecting landscape plants includes short video segments on the plant selection process, a plant sorter, picture album, and information on the 141 trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers. Horticulture questions are among those answered in a section on questions most often asked of extension agents. This horticulture information program is one of the top two programs used in the Public Information Interactive Video System in Virginia.

scholarly journals HORTICULTURE INTERACTIVE VIDEO PROGRAMS IN VIRGINIA

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1113G-1113
Author(s):  
Carol Ness ◽  
Leslye Bloom ◽  
P. Diane Relf ◽  
Mary Miller
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Video ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Cut Flowers ◽  
Information Program ◽  
Video Systems ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Touch Screen Monitor ◽  
Media Delivery

Horticulture information is being placed at the fingertips of Virginia citizens through the use of Public Information Interactive Video Systems. A personal computer (with a touch-screen monitor) and laserdisc player work together to offer a multi-media delivery system. The user moves through programs by simply touching the screen to browse, skip ahead, back up, look up specific information, and print out needed information. A program on household plants contains photographs and information on 131 popular cut flowers and houseplants. A program on selecting landscape plants includes short video segments on the plant selection process, a plant sorter, picture album, and information on the 141 trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers. Horticulture questions are among those answered in a section on questions most often asked of extension agents. This horticulture information program is one of the top two programs used in the Public Information Interactive Video System in Virginia.

Public Perceptions in Spill Response

1991 ◽  
Vol 1991 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Meidt
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Information Program ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACT The federal on-scene coordinator's public information mechanism is an often underused resource that can help responders overcome communications problems and better accomplish goals in spill situations. Media coverage of recent spills indicates recurring problems with regard to the way the responses were perceived. Responders’ actions tended to be characterized by contradiction and misunderstanding, questions about leadership, and failure to act in a timely manner. This paper examines some of that media coverage and outlines the basic guidelines which federal on-scene coordinators use to avoid such problems: access, focus, and control/coordination. The paper is intended to help the response community better understand the OSC's public information role and missions; it may help the response community make greater use of the OSC public information program to communicate vital information during a spill response.

On A Public Information Program

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-34
Author(s):  
Francis E. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Information Program

The Effect of Information Complexity on Analysts' Use of That Information

2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene A. Plumlee
Keyword(s):  
Tax Reform ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Information Complexity ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Case Complexity ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
The Cost

In this study I investigate the relation between information complexity and financial analysts' use of that information. I rank by complexity six tax-law changes enacted by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and then examine analysts' explicit forecasts of effective tax rates around those changes. I show that analysts' revisions of their forecasts of effective tax rates appear to impound the effects of the less complex tax-law changes but not the more complex changes. Furthermore, as expected, if analysts assimilate less complex (but not more complex) information, the magnitude of the errors in their forecasts of effective tax rates increases with the effects of the more complex tax-law changes, but is unrelated to the less complex changes. Taken together, these results indicate that analysts assimilate less complex information to a greater extent than they assimilate more complex information. Either analysts' abilities to incorporate specific information into their forecasts is a decreasing function of the complexity of that information, or analysts choose not to assimilate complex information because the cost would exceed the benefit. In either case, complexity reduces analysts' use of information. These results demonstrate the importance of considering information attributes, such as complexity, when investigating why analysts' forecasts fail to incorporate all public information.

An Example of How Bad Public Relations Can Defeat a Good Water Pollution Control Project

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
E. R. de Britto ◽  
S. A. S. Almeida ◽  
F. B. Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Information Program ◽  
Public Work ◽  
Elective Period ◽  
Ocean Outfall

Cedae, a Rio de Janeiro Government Agency, carefully planned and designed an ocean outfall to be built in Barra da Tijuca, one of the most valuable and beautiful dwelling regions of Rio de Janeiro. Due to the non-implementation of a public enlightening campaign, Cedae had to face radical community opposition to the outfall construction, fronted by very active persons, interested in personal promotion in a political elective period. The authors concluded that it is indispensable for any planned public work to put an action in enlightening public information program, based on fact and mutual understanding, to inform the community to be served about the various technical, economical and social questions involved and as to the facilities to be built.

Segmented Pipelining

2011 ◽  
pp. 299-319
Author(s):  
Phillip K.C. Tse
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Video ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Buffer Size ◽  
Demand Systems ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Efficient Retrieval ◽  
Video Systems ◽  
Slice Method ◽  
The Cost

The robotic tape library and optical jukebox provide huge and cheap capacity for the storage of multimedia objects. The stored objects may be retrieved using staging, time slicing, or pipelining. The staging method retrieves the whole objects to the staging buffers prior to consumption at the cost of high start-up latency. The time slice method reduces the start-up latency at the cost of heavy switching overheads. The pipelining methods aim at minimizing the start-up latency. In the normal pipelining method, the sizes of the slices are minimized to maximize the overlapping between the displaying time and the retrieval time of the slices. In space efficient pipelining methods, the buffer size in accessing the slices is minimized. We have already described the normal pipelining and the space efficient pipelining methods in the two previous chapters. The segmented pipelining method to reduce the latency in serving interactive requests is presented in this chapter. Multimedia objects are usually displayed from the beginning to the end in video on demand systems. Interactive video-on-demand systems support VCR-like functions, including fast forward, rewind, pause, and resume functions. Large video systems store many objects. The video systems should allow some searching to allow users find the desired objects. When searching is required, the video-on-demand system would need to provide browsing, jump, keyword, and content based searching. Unless the staging method is used, the multimedia storage system cannot support any VCR-like operations. The segmented pipelining method is designed to provide efficient retrieval of multimedia objects with supporting of previews. In this chapter, the segmented pipelining method is first described in the next section. The performance of the segmented pipelining method is then described and analyzed before this chapter is summarized.

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