Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even “virtual-enterprise”-style business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems. They consist of multiple workflow engines, application servers, and ORB-style communication servers. Thus, deriving a suitable configuration of an entire distributed WFMS for a given appl...

Abstract Decadal changes in land use/land cover for Balachaur watershed in Nawanshahar district, Punjab, India were studied using black and white aerial photographs for March 1984 on approximately 1:20,000 scale and multidate geocoded false colour composites (FCC) of IRS-1D LISS-III on 1:50,000 scale for March 2002, September 2002, and May 2003 and interpreted visually to prepare land use/land...

A new three-hour lecture and a two-hour lab dealing with audio restoration have been introduced in the subject Audio Technology in the academic year 2005/2006 at the Department of Radio Electronics in Bratislava.

The proteasome is one of the major degradation machineries in eukaryotic cells. It terminates the existence of thousands of short-lived, damaged, misfolded or otherwise obsolete proteins and plays pivotal roles in protein quality control and other vital processes in the cell. However, very little has been known about the mechanisms that control and execute the destruction of the proteasome itse...

Multispectral imaging was employed to collect data on the degradation of an 18 century parchment by a series of physical and chemical treatments. Each sample was photographed before and after treatment by a monochrome digital camera with 21 narrow-band filters, with the objective of assessing algorithms for recovery of text from the images. A template-matching technique was used to detect the c...

JENNIFER KATE WILLIAMS The degradation of soil quality due to anthropogenic causes is globally important, both in terms of ecosystem services and ecological biodiversity. Soil quality reduction is stated to be detrimental for population densities and species diversity of soil invertebrates, including the mesofauna (Acari and Collembola). Within the soil food web, mesofauna occupy several trophi...