As starburst galaxies show a star formation rate up to several hundred times larger than the one in a typical galaxy, the expected supernova rate is higher than average. This in turn implies a high rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs), which are extreme supernova events. We present a catalog of 127 local starburst galaxies with redshifts of z < 0.03. Using this catalog we investigate the possib...

Security requirements change, but the typical way of improving system security by patches is ad hoc and has not produced good results. Security improvements should be systematic, just as new features can be added to software systematically. It would be easier to improve the security of a system if we had a catalog of security-oriented program transformations that could be used to plan changes, ...

Internet marketplaces are now faced with new challenges that arise from the need to seamlessly integrate enormous number of product catalogs from different sources. In order to help users find products efficiently, Internet shops provide hierarchies of product catalogs (called category hierarchies). However, the absence of robust models (and well understood semantics) for product catalogs and t...

Design patterns describe simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in software design. Usually designers have to perform ad hoc transformations in order to introduce them. Most of the time they do not want to introduce or change between patterns that result in a design with conflicting semantics. This is difficult to guarantee by performing ad-hoc transformations. In this paper, we use ...

Methods Ascites and sera samples from patients without known malignancy at the admission were collected. There were 14 stage-4 breast cancer (BC), 17 stage-4 ovarian cancer (OC) and 19 stage-4 endometrial cancer (EC) diagnosed later on. Control groups consisted of benign peritoneal fluids (n=53) and sera samples (n=25) from healthy subjects. Concentrations of sCD200 in the serum samples were qu...

We have compiled a new and complete catalog of the main properties of the 1509 pulsars for which published information currently exists. The catalog includes all spin-powered pulsars as well as anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters showing coherent pulsed emission, but excludes accretion-powered systems. References are given for all data listed. We have also developed a new web i...

Today’s global internetworks challenge the ability of name services and other information services to locate data quickly. We introduce a distributed active catalog and meta-data caching for optimizing queries in this environment. Our active catalog constrains the search space for a query by returning a list of data repositories where the answer to the query is likely to be found. Meta-data cac...

The SDSS galaxy catalog is one of the best databases for galaxy distribution studies. The SDSS DR8 data is used to construct the galaxy cluster catalog. We construct the clusters from the calculated luminosity density field and identify denser regions. Around these peak regions we construct galaxy clusters. Another interesting question in cosmology is how observable galaxy structures are connec...

and librarians will benefit from knowing what typical and acceptable response times are in online catalogs, and this information will assist in the design and evaluation of library discovery systems. This study also looks at benchmarks in response time and defines what is unacceptable and why. When advanced features and content in library catalogs increase response time to the extent that users...