BioStore: A Repository System for Registering and Distributing Public Biology Databases

Distributing Semantic Constraints Between Heterogeneous Databases

In recent years, research about distributing databases over networks has become increasingly important. Here we concentrate on the issues of interoperability of heterogeneous DBMSes, and enforcing integrity across a multidatabase made in this fashion. This has been done through a cooperative project between Aberdeen and Linköping universities, with database modules distributed between the sites...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Optimality in Producing and Distributing Public Outputs

The problem of determining the optimal level of output for goods and services produced by government and determining the best means of rationing these among people is an important one. The level of aggregate economic welfare depends on both the output level chosen and the mechanism used to distribute this output. Public decisions make implicit judgments on both output and rationing devices with...

ProvStore: A Public Provenance Repository

ProvStore is the first online public provenance repository supporting the new PROV standards by W3C. It allows users and applications to store and (optionally) publish the provenance of their data on the Web. Provenance documents can be transformed, visualized, and shared in various serializations, with all the functionality also available to automated applications via a RESTful API (OAuth supp...

Registering CIHR-funded randomized controlled trials: a global public good.