Development of high-performance distributed applications can be extremely challenging because of their complex runtime environment coupled with their requirement of high-performance. Such applications typically run on a set of heterogeneous machines with dynamically varying loads, connected by heterogeneous networks possibly supporting a wide variety of communication protocols. In spite of the ...

Currently, many software systems are developed in offices geographically distributed in different locations. Furthermore, it is also common for a software system development project contracting to different software houses. These contracted software development projects, very ojien, are further sub-contracted to some other software houses. These software development modes can be supported and m...

congenital heart disease. Am J Cardiol 2012;109:1657–63. [3] Geyer S, Norozi K, Buchhorn R, Wessel A. Chances of employment in women and men after surgery of congenital heart disease: comparisons between patients and the general population. Congenit Heart Dis 2009;4:25–33. [4] Kamphuis M, Vogels T, Ottenkamp J, Van Der Wall EE, Verloove-Vanhorick SP, Vliegen HW. Employment in adults with congen...

1. Kücüksezer UC, Palomares O, Rückert B, Jartti T, Puhakka T, Nandy A, et al. Triggering of specific toll-like receptors and proinflammatory cytokines breaks allergen-specific T-cell tolerance in human tonsils and peripheral blood. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013;131:875--85. 2. Palomares O, Rückert B, Jartti T, Kücüksezer UC, Puhakka T, Gomez E, et al. Induction and maintenance of allergen-speci...

1. Kücüksezer UC, Palomares O, Rückert B, Jartti T, Puhakka T, Nandy A, et al. Triggering of specific toll-like receptors and proinflammatory cytokines breaks allergen-specific T-cell tolerance in human tonsils and peripheral blood. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013;131:875--85. 2. Palomares O, Rückert B, Jartti T, Kücüksezer UC, Puhakka T, Gomez E, et al. Induction and maintenance of allergen-speci...

It is a general consensus that automated support for software development is essential to harness the ever increasing complexity of today’s software. Many software development models, tools, and environments have been introduced to address such a need; however, they are usually methodology-specific and impose a rather authoritarian policy on the way software is developed. This paper advocates t...

A research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. Then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

Computer-based visual languages have been developed primarily in order to help people program and operate computers. Now that many people in the world have personal computers with good graphics and Internet connections, we are seeing a great deal of informal electronic visual communication via web pages. More formal visual languages can be expected to appear on the Internet in the near future. ...

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We propose a new approach to nonuniform time compression, called Mach1, designed to mimic the natural timing of fast speech. At identical overall compression rates, listener comprehension for Mach1-compressed speech increased between 5 and 31 percentage points 2 over that for linearly compressed speech, and response times dropped by 15%. For rates between 2.5 and 4.2 times real time, there was ...