The imperative demand on the description of semantic metadata and the processing of real-time data presents unique challenge to Grid Metadata Service. Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA), which is a framework for dynamic data management, is limited by its conventional interface of relational database and therefore fails to address the problem of interoperability. Faced with the problem of metada...

Grids provide a uniform interface to a collection of heterogeneous, geographically distributed resources. In recent years, the research on the Grid Monitoring System gets increasingly essential and significant. In this paper we put forward a novel Mobile Agent-based Grid Monitoring Architecture (MA-GMA), which is based on the GMA from GGF and introduces the mobile agents and cache mechanism of ...

Bisphenol A or BPA-based epoxy resins are widely used in the manufacture of commercial products, including dental resins, polycarbonate plastics, and the inner coating of food cans. BPA is a precursor to the resin monomer Bis-GMA. During the manufacturing process of Bis-GMA dental sealants, Bisphenol A (BPA) might be present as an impurity or as a degradation product of Bis-DMA through esterase...

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) has been described as an inflammatory myeloid neoplasia that affects various organs. Central nervous system involvement may result in endocrinopathies and progressive neurodegeneration (ND-LCH), characterized by low-grade inflammation and degenerative changes, resulting in cognitive deficits, behavioral disturbances, and neuromotor dysfunction. Prolonged dise...

Fritz Zwicky pioneered the development of General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a method for investigating the totality of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, nonquantifiable problem complexes. During the past two decades, GMA has been extended, computerised and employed for structuring complex policy and planning issues, developing scenario and strategy laboratories, and analyzing ...

Monolithic columns for analytical applications have attracted the researcher's attention. In this work, laboratory-made organic-polymer monolithic column is modified with trypsin and further applied as a nanobiocatalyst microreactor stationary phase separating chiral compounds by liquid chromatography. The monolith was synthesized in-situ copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) ethylene...

In the study by Yoshino et al. [4] presented in this journal, 64 patients with ulcerative colitis refractory to immunosuppressive therapies (such as steroids and immunomodulators) were retrospectively enrolled and the clinical outcomes of GMA and immunosuppressive therapy after 2 weeks of ganciclovir treatment were investigated. The total colectomy rate in ulcerative colitis patients positive f...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection exacerbates ulcerative colitis (UC) refractory to immunosuppressive therapies (IMT). However, the underlying UC remained active in some UC patients, despite the fact that CMV-DNA in colonic mucosa became negative after antiviral therapy. Therefore, new therapeutic strategies for UC patients concomitant with CMV infection in mucosa are required. AIMS ...

This article examines the role of the BIG 5 and general mental ability (GMA) for the prediction of current achievement motivation (CAM) in an ability testing context. A total of 189 participants took two figural matrices tests, and 90 of them received a training intervention between tests. Separate analyses for both tests showed openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism to significantly pred...

Physical, mechanical, and morphological properties of a clay dispersed styrene-co-glycidal methacrylate (ST-co-GMA) impregnated wood polymer nanocomposite (WPNC) were evaluated. The WPNC was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), 3-point bending, free-vibration testing, and Xray diffraction (XRD) measurements. The FT-IR results showe...