Computational biology is on the verge of a paradigm shift in its research practice – from a data-based (computational) paradigm to an information-based (cognitive) paradigm. As in the other research fields, this transition is impeded by lack of a right understanding about what is actually hidden behind the term “information”. The paper is intended to clarify this issue and introduces two new no...

Economies of scale, scope, and skill are known to be major drivers or inhibitors for outsourcing business processes but they may play different roles for outsourcing primary or secondary processes. In this paper, based on two empirical surveys with Fortune 1,000 non-banks and Fortune 500 banks in Germany, a comparative analysis reveals different appreciation of (the impact of) economies of scal...

The BaBar database has pioneered the use of a commercial ODBMS within the HEP community. The unique object -oriented architecture of Objectivity/DB has made it possible to manage over 700 terabytes of production data generated since May'99, making the BaBar database the world's largest known database. The ongoing development includes new features, addressing the ever-increasing luminosity of th...

Unfortunately, during the same period, most third world countries, including Ethiopia, have done very little to increase ICT penetration in their countries. It is therefore not surprising that their production efficiency has remained almost as low as it was five decades ago. Since most of these countries also have very high population growth, the quality of life of the majority of their populat...

We report an unprecedented case of an 8-year old child with no particular pathological history presenting, accompanied by his parents, to the Pediatric Emergency Department with strangulation of the penis occurring 5 days earlier. The patient, curiously, had introduced his penis into a ring. The child had hidden the facts for fear and shame with the hope of being able to extract it alone. Given...

This paper presents Olympus, a modular processing architecture for a distributed ambient intelligence. The system is aimed at detailed reporting of people wandering and gesturing in complex indoor environments. The design of the architecture has been driven by two main principles: reliable algorithm testing and system scalability. The first goal has been achieved through the development of Zeus...

or the title, is in the similar situation. Starting a literature search to begin a project in any academic setting, has to be simultaneously carried out in at least three databases, in addition to a handful of search engines. Yet, it may be a common scene to see many surprised students and professors to encounter an existing paper or recently published results, of competing nature, right after ...

In the summer of 2002, a comprehensive observation on natural lightning discharges was conducted in the northeastern verge of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The thunderstorm is usually shows an inverted bipolar charge structure. The stepped leader develops downward to ground with multi-branches with a 2-D velocity of 0.8-1.2×10 m/s and more than one striking point on the ground was often observed as ...