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A method and system for cooling and effecting a change of state of a liquid mixture, wherein the liquid mixture is atomized to form an atomized liquid mixture, which is cooled to change its physical state, the cooling being performed using substantially gaseous coolant.

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A method and system for cooling and effecting a change of state of a liquid mixture, wherein the liquid mixture is atomized to form an atomized liquid mixture, which is cooled to change its physical state, the cooling being performed using substantially gaseous coolant. ess than a total bandwidth of

A method and system for cooling and effecting a change of state of a liquid mixture, wherein the liquid mixture is atomized to form an atomized liquid mixture, which is cooled to change its physical state, the cooling being performed using substantially gaseous coolant. ess than a total bandwidth of the shared communication channel; (ii) a sum of average bit rates of all applications is less than the total bandwidth of the shared communication channel; and (iii)encoding resources are available for the new application. 9. The invention of claim 4, wherein: each video applications is categorized as being either: a C1 application having relatively high bandwidth and relatively low latency requirements; a C2 application having relatively intermediate bandwidth and relatively intermediate latency requirements; or a C3 application having relatively high latency requirements; and step (d)(3) comprises the step of admitting the new application if and only if both of the following two rules would be satisfied after admitting the new video application: (i) maximum of a sum of peak bandwidths of concurrent I frames possible at a time based on GOP structures for C1 applications+a sum of average bandwidths of all C2 and C3 applications is less than a total bandwidth of the shared communication channel; (ii) a sum of average bit rates of all applications is less than the total bandwidth of the shared communication channel; and (iii)encoding resources are available for the new application. 10. The invention of claim 1, wherein at least two of the video encoders have different video compression capabilities. 11. The invention of claim 10, wherein the different video compression capabilities include different levels of external control over video compression processing in step (c). 12. The invention of claim 10, wherein the different video compression capabilities include different levels of video compression processing power. 13. The invention of claim 1, wherein the processing of at least two of the video encoders is staggered within a frame time and step (c) comprise the step of controlling the process of encoding at least one compressed video bitstream taking into account the information for at least one other compressed video bitstream earlier in the same frame time. 14. The invention of claim 1, further comprising the step of (d) performing off-line profiling of typical video streams corresponding to different classifications of video applications to generate profiling results for use during at least one of steps (b) and (c). 15. The invention of claim 14, wherein step (d) comprises the step of characterizing a level of interactivity for each typical video stream. 16. The invention of claim 14, wherein step (d) comprises the step of characterizing a desired level of video compression processing power for each typical video stream. 17. The invention of claim 16, wherein step (d) further comprises the steps of (1) identifying a class of video encoders for each typical video stream based on the desired level of video compression processing power and (2) characterizing a level of external control provided by the identified class of video encoders. 18. The invention of claim 14, wherein the profiling results are used during step (b) to determine an acceptable level of buffering for at least one video application. 19. The invention of claim 14, wherein the profiling results are used during step (b) to order packets of data from different video applications. 20. The invention of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises the step of dropping data from a compressed video bitstream. 21. The invention of claim 20, wherein step (c) comprises the step of instructing a corresponding video encoder to take into account the data dropping for subsequent compression processing. 22. The invention of claim 21, wherein the corresponding video encoder retains a previous reference frame to take into account the data dropping during the subsequent compression processing. 23. The invention of claim 20, wherein step (b) further comprises the step of inserting skip codes into the compressed video bitstream in place of the dropped data. 24. The invention of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises the steps of: (1) del