Fine roots ( 1 mm diameter) are critical in plant water and nutrient absorption, and it is important to understand how rising atmospheric CO2 will affect them as part of terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change. This study’s objective was to determine the effects of elevated CO2 on production, mortality, and standing crops of fine root length over 2 years in a free-air CO2 enrichment (F...

An important task in information access methods is distinguishing factual information from speculative or negated information. Fine-grained certainty levels of diagnostic statements in Swedish clinical text are annotated in a corpus from a medical university hospital. The annotation model has two polarities (positive and negative) and three certainty levels. However, there are many e-health sce...

Databases are increasingly being used to store information covered by heterogeneous policies, which require support for access control with great flexibility. This has led to increasing interest in using fine-grained access control, where different cells in a relation may be governed by different access control rules. Although several proposals have been made to support fine-grained access cont...

Bumb and Hoede have shown that a cooperative game can be split into two games, the reward game and the fine game, by considering the sign of quantities cS in the c-diagram of the game. One can then define a solution x for the original game as x = xr − xf , where xr is a solution for the reward game and xf is a solution for the fine game. Due to the distinction of cooperation rewards and fines, ...

In a Grid environment applications are executed on distributed resources. Applications can be divided into separate parts for distributed and sequential execution. Typically, complete applications consisting of many parts may be executed on both local and remote resources. Computing resources may expect some form of payment in exchange for services used. In this situation there are two scenario...

To any infinite word t over a finite alphabet A we can associate two infinite words min(t) and max(t) such that any prefix of min(t) (resp. max(t)) is the lexicographically smallest (resp. greatest) amongst the factors of t of the same length. We say that an infinite word t over A is fine if there exists an infinite word s such that, for any lexicographic order, min(t) = as where a = min(A). In...

Bumb and Hoede have shown that a cooperative game can be split into two games, the reward game and the fine game, by considering the sign of quantities c v S in the c-diagram of the game. One can then define a solution x for the original game as x = x r − x f , where x r is a solution for the reward game and x f is a solution for the fine game. Due to the distinction of cooperation rewards and ...