The X.500 directory provides a powerful mechanism for storing and retrieving information about objects of interest. To interpret the information stored in the directory, the schema must be known to all the components of the directory. The rapid increase in the number of schemas and the relatively slow pace of standardization and subsequent publication has given rise to the challenge of making t...

With the increasing use of mobile and nomadic communication devices requirements for security and privacy are rising as well. Following brief surveys of existing approaches to mobility management, general security considerations for UMTS and confidential storing of location information we introduce the ideas and concepts behind the new ‘anonymous subscriber’ method for UMTS, largely based on ex...

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Featuring plush rats, well-groomed humans, and a colony of rodents numbering a thousand strong, Ratatouille had shots where the original scene descriptions contained many hundreds of millions of hairs. To make these shots renderable, we developed many new technologies to optimize our RenderMan-based hair rendering pipeline, including caching to speed up runtime sculpting, a technique for optimi...

BACKGROUND The Gold standard treatment for symptomatic gallstone disease is laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) since 1990. LC can be performed safely as a day case procedure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in symptomatic gall stones disease in terms of length of hospital stay, complications, morbidity and mortality. METHODS This retrospe...

Despite considerable research effort, it remains unclear whether extra-pair fertilizations (EPF) drive the evolution of male secondary ornamentation in socially monogamous systems. In this study, we test the hypothesis that EPF contribute to the evolution or maintenance of male feather ornamentation in a sexually dichromatic passerine, the Scarlet Rosefinch, Carpodacus erythrinus. We show that ...

The aim of this White Paper was to review the current recommendations for strength training of older adults, to promote physical therapist best practice and achieve optimal functional outcomes. A secondary intent was to encourage prospective researchers to use published guidelines to establish an adequate strength stimulus for patients in their research, rather than perpetuating "usual or tradi...

1School of Natural Sciences, Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland 2CAPP: Centro de Administracao e Politicas Publicas and Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Políticas da Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Rua Almerindo Lessa, Polo Universitario do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055 Lisboa, Portugal 3CRIA Centre for the Research in Anthropology and Departament of A...