MOTIVATION Due to the increasing number of molecular biological databases and the exponential growth of their contents, database integration is an important topic of research in bioinformatics. Existing approaches in this area have in common that considerable efforts are needed to provide integrated access to heterogeneous data sources. RESULTS This article describes the LIMBO architecture as...

We present the design and prototype implementation of the scheduling component in ArTCoP (architecture transparent control of parallelism), a novel run-time environment (RTE) for parallel execution of high-level languages. A key feature of ArTCoP is its support for deep process and memory hierarchies, shown in the scheduler by supporting light-weight threads. To realise a system with easily exc...

A simple and natural explanation for the dynamics and morphology of the Local Group Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies, Draco (Dra) and Ursa Minor (UMi), is that they are weakly unbound stellar systems with no significant dark matter component. A gentle, but persistent, Milky Way (MW) tide has left them in their current kinematic and morphological state. This short paper reviews the parametric tidal int...

The component software technology is a promising trend for rapid software development. However, one of the problems of software engineering is still inherited, which is the high cost of program verification. Moreover, not just the component, but also the composition of components is a subject for verification. In the direction of component software free-trade market, verification concerns becom...

The demand for applications involving Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) or RFID systems is increasing. The sensor in a WSN and RFID tag/reader in a RFID system are called resource constrained devices because these devices have limited processing power, memory size and energy supply. The information transmitted among these low resource devices must be protected from unauthorized access using specifi...

Users who work together require adequate information about their environment—group awareness. In the CSCW literature several models and systems for group awareness have been presented. They basically capture information from the environment, process it, and present it to the users. In general, only the information per se is captured without capturing information about its context of origin. Fur...

Despite huge progress in information and communication technology it is often difficult to spontaneously contact persons who are at other locations. This is often due to the fact that important information about the persons at the other sites is missing. Users need to know if the potential communication or cooperation partners are present in the system, if they are available, how busy they are,...

This paper discusses the currency management mechanisms used in Deno, a replicated-object storage system designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. Deno primarily differs from previous work in implementing an asynchronous weighted-voting scheme via epidemic information flow, and in committing updates in an entirely decentralized fashion, without requiring any server to have c...

     The aim of the present research was to study the effects of weak cation exchange resins, polacrilex with exchangeable H+ and polacrillin potassium and strong cation exchange resin sodium polystyrene sulfonate on water uptake behavior of ranitidine hydrochloride. Drug resin complexes (DRC) were prepared and evaluated for the percentage of moisture gain when placed in a humidity c...

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...