Nowadays, software companies develop and maintain their software for several clients.Consequently, these applications have to be integrated in heterogenous context andadapt to the user requriements. All these products are sharing commonalities but alsodiffer in certain point due to business specific constraints. Configurable systems facili-tate the creation of these product fami...

Industrials have been increasingly interested in sensor and actuator networks to monitor and control installations. The recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard has been developed to address vital issues of these networks, such as limited battery power and low processing capabilities. However, the standard does not meet all the requirements of industrial networks. For example, only some of the IEEE 802.15...

This paper describes the parallelization (gridification) of the phylogenetic package PHYLIP on a desktop GRID platform termed XtremWeb-CH. PHYLIP is a package of programs for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees). It is the most widely-distributed phylogeny package. PHYLIP has been used to build the largest number of published trees. It's known that some modules of PHYLIP are CPU time cons...

Traditional microbiological methods tend to be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Rapid and novel methods in microbiological tests provide more sensitive, precise and reproducible results compared with conventional methods. In microbiology, the most rapid testing methods belong to the field of biotechnology such as PCR, ELISA, ATP bioluminescence and etc. Nevertheless impedance microbiology, b...

Fungi are common contaminants of dairy products, which provide a favorable niche for their growth. They are responsible for visible or non-visible defects, such as off-odor and -flavor, and lead to significant food waste and losses as well as important economic losses. Control of fungal spoilage is a major concern for industrials and scientists that are looking for efficient solutions to preven...

In many industrials field, especially in the automotive sector, there is a trend toward lightweight constructions in order to reduce the weight and thereby the CO₂ and NOx emissions of the products. An auspicious approach within this context is the substitution of conventional deep drawing steel by precipitation hardenable aluminum alloys. However, based on the low formability, the application ...

In this article, the general principles of genetically modified (GM) plant risk assessment and the regulatory framework for contained use and open field production of plant-made pharmaceuticals/plant-made industrials (PMP/PMI) are described. While significant progress has been made for the containment grown (plant cell culture) production of PMPs, with the first regulatory approval made by the ...

Nowadays System-On-Chips (SoCs) have evolved considerably in term of performances, reliability and integration capacity. The last advantage has induced the growth of the number of cores or Intellectual Properties (IPs) in a same chip. Unfortunately, this important number of IPs has caused a new issue which is the intra-communication between the elements of a same chip. To resolve this problem, ...

background and objectives: thermophilic bacteria are less studied but important group of microorganisms due to their ability to produce industrial enzymes. materials and methods: in this study, thermophilic bacteria were isolated from hot spring of tarabalo, india. a bacterium that could tolerate high temperatures was characterized by morphology, biochemistry and sequencing of its 16s rrna gene...

Using survey evidence from European asset managers, we provide insights into their green bond investment activities and the factors that affect decisions. We find majority of investors are actively invested in market via a variety channels. Investors prefer bonds issued corporate issuers sovereigns there is strong unmet investor demand for these issuer types, particular non-financial corporates...