The Java Media Framework (JMF) provides a rich set of functionality for building multimedia applications. Using the JMF to build simple multimedia applications is trivial; however, using the JMF to build more complex, interactive multimedia presentations is a much more difficult task. With the recently introduced integration of Tcl and Java, the Tcl language can now be extended to provide a scr...

Monitoring and analysis of QoS are crucial steps for the provisioning of self-healing web services and for managing web service-based distributed interactive applications. Dealing with these issues becomes even more challenging when applications are dynamically built by composition of distributed services involving different service providers. In this case, assuming access to the internal logic...

Abstract This chapter defines the transdisciplinary research framework in which this study has been realised. It also provides an overview of collaboration projects and working definitions for related key terms.

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Diagnosing COPD It is widely recognized that many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are undiagnosed, including some with significant airflow obstruction. The best available data suggest that the prevalence of physiologically defined COPD in adults aged 40 years is 9%–10% (Halbert et al 2006). In their study of randomly selected individuals aged 60 to 74 years from a UK ge...

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