The ability to dynamically adopt protocol functionality to the current situation will greatly improve performance, service availability and quality of service in the Future Internet. Nevertheless this provides a huge set of configuration and adaption options which have to be controlled intelligently and also in a timely manner. This creates need for a multi-level control and configuration frame...

Habitat loss and fragmentation in the human‐modified landscape affect bee assemblages by reducing available natural resources. The life history features adaptations of bees to environmental conditions how they perceive interact with structure. Therefore, it is crucial quantify magnitude effects structure on this group at multiscale. We address relative contribution explaining abundance orchid b...

[Purpose] This study was performed to assess the effect of daily sitting time during media consumption on physical fitness, total energy expenditure (TEE), and body composition indices of Saudi school children. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 180 healthy Saudi school students (8-18 years) were included in this study. Sitting time, total energy expenditure, and levels of physical activity were...

We present a consistency-based service composition approach, where composition problems are modelled in a generic manner using a generative constraint-based formalism. We show that in our framework concise formal specification of service configuration problems is possible. Preliminary results indicate that our approach is scalable and competitive with other state-of-the-art composition systems.

A new tridecapeptide lactone named theonellapeptolide Ie (2), isolated from an Okinawan marine sponge of Theonella sp. (Theonellidae) together with theonellapeptolide Id (1) and some other minor peptide lactones, has been determined on the basis of chemical and physicochemical evidence. A new HPLC analysis method for N-methyl amino acids has been developed to analyze the amino acid composition ...

diacylglycerol acyltransferase1 (dgat1) has been introduced as a strong potential candidate gene for milk fat content in cattle. dgat1 gene plays a key role in the final step of triglyceride synthesis. in this study, the genetic variability in the region spanning exon 1 to exon 2 of the buffalo dgat1 gene was investigated by dna sequencing. two hundred buffaloes belonging to three indigenous po...

reforestation is one of the philippines’ government efforts to restore and rehabilitate degraded mangrove ecosystems. although there is recovery of the ecosystem in terms of vegetation, the recovery of closely-linked faunal species in terms of community structure is still understudied. this research investigates the community structure of mangrove crabs under two different management schemes: p...