This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined operations to the global schema. Such tailoring and composition process aims at offering personalized views over the database schema, so as to improve its ability to support the new needs of customers, support evolutionary software development, and fix existing legacy dat...

The combination of advanced ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, chemometrics, and genetically modified mice provide an attractive raft of technologies with which to examine the metabolism of xenobiotics. Here, a reexamination of the metabolism of the food mutagen PhIP (2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine), the suspect carcinogen areca alkaloids (ar...

Virtual Actors are at the heart of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple approaches have been described to specify their autonomous behaviour. One well known problem is how to achieve a balance between the characters’ autonomy, defined in terms of their individual roles and motivations, and the global structure of the plot, which tends to emphasise narrative phenomena an...

Monitoring plants using leaf feature detection is a challenging perception task because different leaves, even from the same plant, may have very different shapes, sizes and deformations. In addition, leaves may be occluded by other leaves making it hard to determine some of their characteristics. In this paper we use a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera mounted on a robot arm to acquire the depth inf...

This mini-review discusses some of the recent work on Novel Process Windows by the group of Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and their associates. Novel Process Windows consist of unconventional approaches to boost chemical production, often requiring harsh reaction conditions at short to very short time-scales. These approaches are divided ...

purpose: clinical librarianship is a tool for evidence based medicine that intends to improve health professionals' access to information. this research, studies the feasibility of implement of clinical librarianship program in the hospital libraries of tabriz university of medical science. methodology: this paper is a descriptive research. hospital libraries of tabriz medical university a...

one of the most important sources of imamiyyah jurisprudence is the tradition in the form of reliable report. and a significant part of it, refers to external threads, but the renowned osuli's jurisprudents take the view that the scope of the reliable authority credit, is limited to injunctions and argue that account is a subject concerning with evidence chapter in which justice and witnes...