The paper presents the results of studies hematological parameters dogs and cats when adapting to new living conditions. It was revealed that change residence for small pets causes a number changes in blood composition, which can be considered as reaction stress

General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Units (GPGPU) is today recognized as a practical and efficient way of accelerating software procedures that require a lot of computing resources. However, using this technology in the context of Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) appears to be difficult because GPGPU relies on a very specific programming approach for which MABS models are not naturally ada...

The ISO 20462 method for subjective image quality evaluation relies on a set of reference images, which are calibrated in terms of known absolute quality differences. The original reference images, Standard Reference Stimuli (SRS), were in the form of photographic prints, to be viewed under controlled lighting and fixed viewing conditions. This method was then extended for scenes presented on c...

This paper identifies and examines an impact of students’ and teachers’ activities on possibility of using and adapting e-learning platform in postgraduate studies. The paper aims at experimental survey of students’ satisfaction level, their opinions concerning implementing e-learning at work as well as correlation students’ activity, teachers’ activity and e-learning results. Our hypotheses ar...

1. The present study was performed in anaesthetized, artificially ventilated, open-chested rabbits to examine whether (a) the rapidly adapting receptors of the airways were stimulated by exogenously administered bradykinin, and (b) if this sensitivity could be enhanced by the angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor, enalapril. 2. Rapidly adapting receptor activity (n = 8) was recorded from the ...

Although DNA microarray technology has been used successfully to analyze global gene expression in pure cultures, it has not been rigorously tested and evaluated within the context of complex environmental samples. Adapting microarray hybridization for use in environmental studies faces several challenges associated with specificity, sensitivity and quantitation.

This paper describes a middleware solution for self-manageable and autonomic systems, and presents its use with replicated databases. Preliminary case studies for automatically recovering from server failures and for automatically adapting a cluster of replicated servers according to QoS requirements are

Biologists typically use the climatic conditions in which species currently live to project the likelihood that those climates will be available following a period of climate change, and these almost always predict dramatically high rates of species extinctions and biodiversity loss in future climates. In many instances, such predictions are warranted. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), for example...

We present an approach for studying logical properties of problemsolving methods (PSMs) for knowledge-intensive tasks. It is based on semantic tableaux (a deduction-style theorem-proving technique). We show how tableaux can be manipulated in a methodical way to formalize non-deductive style PSMs.

After prolonged exposure to a surface moving across the skin, this felt movement appears slower, a phenomenon known as the tactile speed aftereffect (tSAE). We asked which feature of the adapting motion drives the tSAE: speed, the spacing between texture elements, or the frequency with which they cross the skin. After adapting to a ridged moving surface with one hand, participants compared the ...