The important factor is the sequence of merging in symbiogenesis, i.e. the serial evolution. The first merger involved (1) thermoplasmic archaebacteria with motile spirochaeta-like eubacteria that (2) were able to swim, to the nucleocytoplasm. These forms were still anaerobic. This was followed by a merging with (3) aerobic organisms. This enabled them to survive the increasing oxygen concentra...

With the development of network technology, the users looking for information may send a request to various selected databases and then inspect multiple result lists. To overcome such multiple inspections, the database merging strategy involves the merging of the retrieval results produced by separate, autonomous servers into an effective, single ranked list. To achieve this merging, this study...

In this paper we proposed several merging strategies to merge the result lists of each intermediate runs in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used to adjust the similarity scores of documents in the result lists. We introduced three factors affecting the retrieval effectiveness, i.e., the degree of translation ambiguity, the number of unknown words and the number o...

In recent years, researchers have focused on merging knowledge bases in both pragmatic and theoretical points of view. In this paper, we enumerate a few attempts to deal with inconsistencies while merging knowledge bases. We focus on ontology merging and show that pragmatic and theoretical approaches are not integrated and that both could benefit from a closer relationship. We extended an exist...

This paper tried to probe the merging tones and the application of sandhi rule for unchecked tones (/24/[33] and /33/[33]) in Hailu variety of Hakka language. Generally speaking, the sandhi rule was applied in both the younger (under 30) and the older (above 50) groups. Tone merging phenomenon (/24/[24] merging toward /33/[33]) was not found in the older group. Yet, the merging phenomenon was f...

In this section, we discuss why Lazy-Merge, a nonstandard merging format, is advantageous, in terms of a better run-time, over the standard format. We support this advantage using experimental results obtained from applying our standard to a real-time application, and later, we present its applicability to a general case. We considered merging e-mail lists to show that LazyMerge has an advantag...

Reducing the number of memory accesses is the main goal of the memory field merging. Different cases of dependencies between memory access are described, and trade-offs of field merging, related to the cases of dependencies, are discussed. Optimization guidelines-using collected data about dependencies to analyze effects of field merging-are proposed.

The present paper introduces two new information merging protocols for the family of adaptive logics ADM, for which majority merging has been defined in previous work. The new adaptive operators reflect the negotiation processes of quasi-merging and pure-arbitration known from the Integrity Constraints framework. The Adaptive Variant Counting selection provides results equivalent to the GMax fa...

The present paper introduces two new information merging protocols for the family of adaptive logics ADM, for which majority merging has been defined in [19]. The new adaptive operators reflect the negotiation processes of quasi-merging and pure arbitration, known from the Integrity Constraints framework introduced in [13]. The Adaptive Variant Counting selection provides a result equivalent to...