Any QoS scheme must be designed from the perspective of pricing policies and service level agreements (SLAs). Although there has been enormous amount of research in designing mechanisms for delivering QoS, its applications has been limited due to the missing link between QoS, SLA and pricing. Therefore the pricing policies in practice are very simplistic (fixed price per unit capacity with fixe...

Language transfer, the characteristic second language usage patterns caused by native language interference, is investigated by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers seeking to find overused and underused linguistic features. In this paper we develop and present a methodology for deriving ranked lists of such features. Using very large learner data, we show our method’s ability to find ...

BACKGROUND: Antibodies to a cytosolic soluble liver antigen (SLA) are specifically detected in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). The target of anti-SLA has been identified as a ~50 kDa UGA serine tRNA-associated protein complex (tRNP(Ser)Sec), through the screening of cDNA libraries. A recent report questioned the identity of tRNP(Ser)Sec as the real SLA antigen. The latter study identi...

Decision-making with regard to availability service level agreements (SLAs) is investigated. An experimental economics approach was used to elicit the preferences for different SLA alternatives from the subjects (N = 16), all professionally working with IT management. A previously published scenario on downtime costs in the retail business was used in the experimental setup. Subjects made 18 pa...

objective(s)cpg oligodeoxynucleotides (cpg odns) have been shown to have potent immunostimulatory adjuvant activity for a wide range of antigens. due to susceptibility of phosphodiester cpg odns (po cpg) to nuclease degradation, nuclease-resistant phosphorothioate cpg odns (ps cpg) were currently utilized in an in vivo model. in this study, according to some recently reported drawbacks with ps ...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for supporting of SLA-aware Grid jobs, the SLA mapping module holds an important position and the capability of the mapping module depends on the runtime of the mapping algorithm. With the previously proposed mapping algorithms, the mapping module may develop into the b...

Existing studies on information technology outsourcing relationships have typically examined partnership factors that influence IT outsourcing effectiveness. This research extends such studies and draws upon relational exchange theory to investigate how relational elements in service level agreements (SLAs) may impact outsourcing relationships. The results show that the effects of a well-struct...

This introductory article introduces the field of second language acquisition (SLA) to specialists in French linguistics who are not familiar with it. Its purpose is to present a map of the field which will then enable the reader to better situate the following in depth articles which present focused theoretical and empirical investigations as they apply to French. The first part summarises rec...

We previously reported the development of genomic-DNA-based high-resolution genotyping methods for SLA-DQB1 and DRB1. Here, we report the successful typing of SLA-DQA using similar methodological principles. We designed a method for comprehensive genotyping of SLA-DQA using intronic sequence information of SLA-DQA exon 2 that we had obtained from 12 animals with different SLA-DQB1 genotypes. We...