Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a new paradigm in Cloud Computing using domain-specific business processes as a mediator for business and IT-Cloud alignment. Therefore, business process models are extended with cloud-specific concepts. This paper introduces the modelling concepts and mechanisms to bridge the semantic distance between domain-specific business processes and IT-Cloud depl...

The Mediator EnvirOnment for Multiple Information Sources (MOMIS) aims at constructing synthesized, integrated descriptions of the information coming from multiple heterogeneous sources, in order to provide the user with a global virtual view of the sources independent from their location and the level of heterogeneity of their data. Such a global virtual view is a conceptualization of the unde...

according to studies, self-esteem plays an important role in mental health. self-esteem is also one of the most important correlates of anxiety, especially social anxiety. being anxiety in adolescents make negative impacts on their academic performance, mental health and social function. this study aims to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and mental health, according to the medi...

mental health in adolescents is influenced by several factors. body image is one of the factors in predicting mental health. moreover, it affects social communication and creates the social anxiety. the present study is cross-sectional and correlational. the statistical population is the guidance and high school students in shiraz in 2013-2014 that 180 students include 101 girls and 79 boys wer...

The exo-enzyme autotaxin/NPP2 (ATX/NPP2) is a potent stimulator of cell migration, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. Recently, ATX/NPP2 was found to possess lysophospholipase D (lyso-LPD) activity, generating the bioactive mediator lysophosphatidic acid from precursors. In the present study, we used site-directed mutagenesis to delineate the active domain of lysophospholipid catalytic act...