Although a number of techniques are available for estimating the biomass of filamentous microorganisms in soil, determination of their activity is much more difficult. We report on preliminary studies evaluating the potential use of the volatile microbial secondary metabolites geosmin and methylisoborneol as indicators of activity of filamentous microorganisms. The purge-and-trap technique for ...

ion from “user interfaces for all.” In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st ERCIM Workshop “User Interfaces for All”. Retrieved April 17, 2003 from http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/UI4ALL–95/proceedings.htmlGutwin, C., & Greenberg, S. (1998). Effects of awareness support on groupware usability. In J. Coutaz & J. Karat (Eds.), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing...

In the practice of oncology, it is difficult not to be impressed by the number of clinical situations that necessitate the conveyance of unfavorable medical information to patients and families. These include the communication of the cancer diagnosis, a poor prognosis, the failure of anticancer treatment, the occurrence of unwanted and significant side effects, the ineligibility for a clinical ...

An expert panel was established to formulate aconsensus statement on Skin Changes At Life’s End(SCALE). The panel consists of 18 internationallyrecognized key opinion leaders including clinicians,caregivers, medical researchers, legal experts,academicians, a medical writer and leaders ofprofessional organizations. The inaugural forum washeld on April 4-6, 2008 in...

In this paper, a case study is used to evaluate the business process characterizing modeling (BPCM) language. The BPCM-framework is meant to guide both business stakeholders and model developers during model-based development. The focus of the approach is the use of BPCM as a starting point for capturing process knowledge when planning and developing information system support. Based on informa...

I use the nuclear proliferation regime to show that dyadic diplomacy is not necessarily incompatible with the building of a multilateral regime; bilateralism is not the opposite of multilateralism, but an efficient component thereof+ Although this point will not be new to most students of institutions, no general rationale has so far been offered on the complementarity of bilateral and multilat...

Team member knowledge and expertise are the aspects typically considered important for software team development formation. However, the authors believe that the formation of teams, as is found in literature, could be based on factors related to the personalities of the members of the development team, and that these factors might affect both the quality of the software product developed and th...

Social scientists have sketched four distinct theories to explain a phenomenon that appears to have ramped up in recent years, the diffusion of policies across countries. Constructivists trace policy norms to expert epistemic communities and international organizations, who define economic progress and human rights. Coercion theorists point to powerful nation-states, and international financial...

data types support modularity and reusability.Because of the high reliability requirements of embedded systems andthe poor testing environments usually associated with them, it paysto have as much veri cation as possible performed in the developmentenvironment. An ADT-based language with strong type checking per-formed at compile-time helps considerably in improving reliabil...