As mobility permeates into todays computing and communication arena, we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technologies. Traditional database applications and information service applications will need to integrate mobile entities: people and computers. In this paper, we develop a distributed database framework for mobile environments. A key requirement i...

Recently developed interactive ray tracing systems combine the high-performance of todays CPUs with new algorithms and implementations to achieve a flexible and highperformance rendering system offering high-quality, interactive 3D graphics. However, due to its history in off-line rendering, interactive ray tracing has been limited to static scenes and simple walkthroughs. However, in order to ...

Spondyloarthropaties are the group of seronegative inflammatory rheumatic diseases affecting axial and perpendicular skelet. Most of the patients belong to the work active population and the longterm prognosis and outcome is poor. The diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis is delayed over years, sometimes decades. Our perception of spondyloarthropaties todays is changing. Early diagnosis and agres...

With the increasing speed of todays computational devices (microprocessors as well as configurable devices, etc.), the memory interface speed becomes the limiting factor for the overall system throughput [HS96]. Several techniques1 to alleviate this problem have been developed. Since most of these techniques focus on the locality of instructions in a program [KT96], these methods can not be app...

The Pure project aims at providing a portable, universal runtime executive for deeply embedded parallel/distributed systems. The phrase \deeply embedded" refers to systems forced to operate under extreme resource constraints in terms of memory, CPU, and power consumption. The notion \parallel/distributed" relates to the fact that embedded systems are becoming more and more complex in terms of a...

Breastfeeding is a natural process. However, in todays environment, doing the thing not always easy, because there are many factors that influence success of this To achieve breastfeeding, mothers factors, babys and environment must be supportive. If one them fulfilled, breastfeeding process will optimal. Therefore, health workers highlight only mothers, but also families, husbands, mothers/in-...

The number of threats in todays world increases steadily. Due to that fact governments in many countries try to counteract. The homeland security becomes more and more significant position in their budgets. Not only police forces are strengthen, but also many intelligent systems collecting data about the citizens are developed. Automatic license plate recognition systems are one of them. They a...