This paper describes an Eclipse plug-in developed as a part of METEOR-S for supporting Semantic Web Services. A brief introduction on the background of Semantic Web Services is given to highlight the importance of the plug-in. The features of the plug-in and its role in Semantic Web Applications development are also presented. WSDL-S, which extends WSDL with semantic annotations, has been provi...

Background: Sharing masked interim results by the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) with non-DSMB members is an important issue that can affect trial integrity. Our survey's objective is to collect evidence to understand how seemingly masked interim results or result extrapolations are interpreted and discuss whether these results should be shared at interim. Methods: Conducted a 6 scenario-q...

ACIP Childhood/Adolescent Immunization Work Group Iyabode Akinsanya-Beysolow, MD1 Renée Jenkins, MD2 H. Cody Meissner, MD3 1Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC 2Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C. 3Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Corresponding contributor: Iyabod...

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Vaccines are recommended for adults on the basis of their age, prior vaccinations, health conditions, lifestyle, occupation, and travel. Reasons for current low levels of vaccination coverage for adult vaccines are multifactorial and include limited awareness among the public about vaccines for adults and gaps in incorporation of regular assessments of vaccine needs and vaccination into routine...

Introduction PPDG conducts an annual cross-project document or review process. For 2004, the third year of the SciDAC collaboratory pilot, we present an extended version of the Science Impact note that was presented around the time of the SciDAC PI meeting in March 2004. This document does not include work in progress, or address the needs and issues of the project.

The Space Operations and Support Technical Committee (SOSTC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) undertook a survey of the state of the industry in implementing autonomous spacecraft systems. The Advanced Concepts Subcommittee of the SOSTC developed the survey and compiled responses from twelve different organizations operating 88 different autonomous and/or intelli...

3 I owe this research to my wonderful husband, Donald, who has been my motivation and inspiration during these years. You suffered with me through the bad times and celebrated with me through the good times. My parents Joseph and Yvonne, and my brother, Nikolas, thank you for all of your support and love. You encouraged me to persevere when things got tough. Thank you. 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would...

Digital television is a reality today, but multimedia communications, after years of hype, is still a catchword. Lack of suitable multi-industry standards supporting it is one reason for the unfulfilled promise. The MPEG committee which originated the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards that made digital television possible is currently developing MPEG-4 with wide industry participation. This paper des...

This note offers a critique of support for parallelism in Fortran 2008 based on co-arrays. We believe that there are some significant shortcomings in current design of co-array features that affect their suitability for mapping onto a range of parallel systems, expressing a wide range of parallel applications, supporting the development of parallel libraries, and providing an extensible framewo...