Service-Orientation is widely regarded as THE computing paradigm for the next decade. In this talk we discuss why this paradigm is particularly suitableto achieve functionality sharing in open environments. We investigate what is needed on top of "standard" service-orientation to reach this goal. We will take a closer look at some of these requirements including automatic service discovery and ...

Milk proteins exert a wide range of nutritional, functional and biological activities. Many milk proteins possess specific biological properties that make these components potential ingredients of health-promoting foods. Increasing attention is being focused on physiologically active peptides derived from milk proteins. These peptides are inactive within the sequence of the parent protein molec...

Answers to the question "What are human emotions for?" have stimulated highly productive programs of research on emotional phenomena in psychology and neuroscience in the past decade. Although a variety of functions have been proposed and examined at different levels of abstraction, what is undeniable is that when emotional processing is compromised, most things social go awry. In this review w...