It is unanimously believed that Web services will move the Web to its next level by facilitating application to application interaction over the Internet. However, there is no consensus on how Web services should be implemented. Software vendors promote involved tool-chains that are based on SOAP, a W3C standard, as the ideal technology, while a few, but vocal practitioners claim that a simpler...

Although RDF is considered the Semantic Web language, it may not be the only one. SOAP serialisation provides several advantages, especially if the Semantic Web is not just about providing meta data for existing web pages, but also about exchange of content that is machine-readable in the rst place. This paper discusses some problems with the RDF syntax and data model. RDF is compared to SOAP, ...

Web services based on the SOAP protocol are the most widely used technology in the field of Service-Oriented Architectures. They were designed to facilitate communication between heterogeneous systems in a network. Applying hard performance constraints in a Service-Oriented Architecture context is a challenging task because these constraints are often not met by SOAP-based web services. This pa...

We follow the diffusive motion of colloidal particles of diameter d in soap films of varying thickness h with fluorescence microscopy. Diffusion constants are obtained both from one- and two-particle microrheological measurements of particle motion in these films. These diffusion constants are related to the surface viscosity of the interfaces comprising the soap films, by means of the Trapezni...

The 7th annual Global Handwashing Day will be observed October 15, 2014. This observance increases awareness and understanding of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent disease around the world. Handwashing with soap has an important role to play in child survival and health. Approximately 2.2 million children aged <5 years die each year from diarrheal diseases and ...

The Satellite Orbital Analysis Program (SOAP) is a widely recognized software and engineering analysis tool authored by Aerospace. Many users in multiple communities use SOAP. SOAP can be computationally demanding, and may require super-computing resources for timely execution. This is particularly critical when used in time-demanding operations, such as concurrent design iterations within the ...

It is known that the exchange of information between web applications is done by means of the SOAP protocol. Securing this protocol is obviously a vital issue for any computer network. However, when it comes to cloud computing systems, the sensitivity of this issue rises, as the clients of system, release their data to the cloud. XML signature is employed to secure SOAP messages. However, there...

The ongoing convergence of Grid computing and Web Services has motivated a number of research groups to study the use of SOAP-based Web Services for scientific computing. These studies have exposed various performance problems in using SOAP-based communication, and a number of suggested extensions to the SOAP standard and/or sophisticated implementation strategies have been proposed to eliminat...

OBJECTIVES We pretested interventions derived from different domains of behavior change theory to determine their effectiveness at increasing hand washing with soap in a natural setting. METHODS We installed wireless devices in highway service station restrooms to record entry and soap use. Two text-only messages for each of 7 psychological domains were compared for their effect on soap-use r...

SUMMARY We have developed a program SOAP for efficient gapped and ungapped alignment of short oligonucleotides onto reference sequences. The program is designed to handle the huge amounts of short reads generated by parallel sequencing using the new generation Illumina-Solexa sequencing technology. SOAP is compatible with numerous applications, including single-read or pair-end resequencing, sm...