Proponents of active systems have proposed Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules, a mechanism where behavior is invoked automatically as a response to events but without user or application intervention. The environment (the programming language and the operating system) in which a system is built influences how the event detector is designed and implemented. Sentinel provided active capability to...

Regulatory Foxp3(+) T cells (T(R)) are indispensable for preventing autoimmune pathology in multiple organs and tissues. During thymic differentiation T cell receptor (TCR)-ligand interactions within a certain increased affinity range, in conjunction with gammac-containing cytokine receptor signals, induce Foxp3 expression and thereby commit developing thymocytes to the T(R) lineage. The contri...

The semantic data models and ontologies have shown themselves as very useful technologies for the environments where heterogeneous devices need to share information, to utilize services of each other, and to participate as components in different applications. The work in this chapter extends this approach so that the software development process for such environments is also ontology-driven. T...

During the past two decades, there has been a steady migration towards object-oriented modeling and simulation environments. There exist many issues besides use of a modeling and simulation approach and an object-oriented programming language that are important to account for in developing modeling and simulation environments. For example, it is not only necessary to consider run-time attribute...

D uring the past decade the method of functional cranial analysis has been developed in our laboratory. The basic postulates and the experimental and clinical supporting data have been published extensively elsewhere.4-“Y The orthodontic specialty recently became aware of this analytical technique, with particular interest being expressed in the derivat,i\-e concept of the Jurrctionul matrix. I...

Abstract Vitality and Urbanity emerge as key goals of strategies for urban sustainable development necessary prerequisites varied prosperous cities. urbanity are characteristics that from the diversity public spaces activities have an impact on a people's sense place. The proposed research examines built environment components vitality develops analytic method quantifying potential form to prom...

Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe has experienced some dramatic events and drastic changes that have had consequences on population structures and economies. To this must be added that secularism and immigration during the last thirty years have changed European religious life. These positive and negative developments have also affected Seventh-day Adventist churches. In ord...