The problem of finding subclasses of XPath queries and document type definitions (DTDs) for which containment can be tested efficiently has been much studied. Along the way, a number of constraints inferred from DTDs have been used to characterise containment in terms of the chase procedure. However, previous attempts have resulted in procedures that are non-terminating for cyclic DTDs, even wh...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder observed both in humans and animals. Examples of Canine Compulsive Disorder (CD) include excessive tail chasing (TC), light/shadow chasing and flank sucking. We performed a questionnaire survey to investigate the characteristics of compulsive (TC) and its possible associations with environmental correlates and personality in a p...

We have used two methods for measuring emission factors (EFs) in real driving conditions on five cars in a controlled environment: the stationary method, where the investigated vehicle drives by the stationary measurement platform and the composition of the plume is measured, and the chasing method, where a mobile measurement platform drives behind the investigated vehicle. We measured EFs of b...

Even though there have been many research works on distributed deadlock detection and recovery mechanisms, the multi-cycle deadlock problems are not extensively studied yet. This paper proposes a multi-cycle deadlock detection and recovery mechanism, named as MC2DR. Most existing algorithms use edge-chasing technique for deadlock detection where a special message called probe is propagated from...

The brain structure of many animals is influenced by their predators, but the cellular processes underlying this brain plasticity are not well understood. Previous studies showed that electric fish (Brachyhypopomus occidentalis) naturally exposed to high predator (Rhamdia quelen) density and tail injury had reduced brain cell proliferation compared with individuals facing few predators and thos...