A Next Generation Network (NGN) application is an application that provides a value–added service seamlessly across an integrated network consisting of a combination of packet–switched, circuit–switched, wireless and wireline networks. Such an application is likely to be developed using a set of open, standard APIs. These APIs provide a level of abstraction to shield the application programmers...

In recent years, a great need for large scale servers has arisen. One practical solution is to construct such servers as cluster systems. For applications reside on them, inter process communications(IPCs) among them must be high performance. The current generation of System Area Networks(SANs) have very wide bandwidths, and very low communication latencies, and they usually consume relatively ...

Ascosphaera apis is a bee pathogen that causes bee larvae infection disease, to which treatment is not yet well investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate antifungal susceptibility in vitro against A. apis and to identify a new antifungal agent for this pathogen through minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay and western blot analysis. Macelignan had 1.56 and 3.125 μg/mL MIC ag...

Nosema ceranae infection is ubiquitous in western honey bees, Apis mellifera, in the United States and the pathogen has apparently replaced Nosema apis in colonies nationwide. Displacement of N. apis suggests that N. ceranae has competitive advantages but N. ceranae was significantly less infective and less virulent than N. apis in commercially available lineages of honey bees in studies conduc...

We evaluated the efficacy of supplementation with protein, yeast, or sugar candies young honeybee colonies origi- nated from artificial swarms, by measuring strength and determining Nosema spp. spore level in adult bees summer period. At same time, we aimed to assess longevity worker after feeding type controlled laboratory condition. The highest survival was found Yeast Protein candy group. On...

Survival rates of Ascosphaera aggregata and Ascosphaera apis over the course of a year were tested using different storage treatments. For spores, the storage methods tested were freeze-drying and ultra-low temperatures, and for hyphae, freeze-drying, agar slants, and two methods of ultra-low temperatures. Spores of A. aggregata and A. apis stored well at -80 degrees C and after freeze-drying. ...

This short paper describes an initial work to facilitate a better fusion of Web APIs and Linked Data. It explores how the Semantic Web (SW) community can benefit from data available through Web APIs. We believe a tight integration of Web APIs with SW technologies like SPARQL, OWL and reasoning has several advantages over loose integration. We demonstrate how a SPARQL query can be executed again...

approved: ______________________________________________________ Christopher Scaffidi Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable software developers to utilize and create functionality that would otherwise take a lot of time and effort to build from scratch. Consequently, an essential part of software engineering training is for students to learn how to use APIs effectively. The existing ...