The editors of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 14 (2014).

Tethered particle motion is an experimental technique to monitor conformational changes in single molecules of DNA in real time, by observing the position fluctuations of a micrometersize particle attached to the DNA. This article reviews some recent work on theoretical problems inherent in the interpretation of TPM experiments, both in equilibrium and dynamical aspects.

In the Late Paleozoic paleogeography, the Laibin area, South China, locates in the south-eastern margin of the Laibin-Heshan isolated carbonate platform. One global stratotype section for The Guadalupian–Lopingian (G/L) (The end of the Mid-Permian) transition is located in the Tieqiao section in Laibin area, which is regarded as appropriate one for the study. Based on the analysis, seven facies...

; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article d ibution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), w any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Eriberto Farinella Italy Stefan Farkas Germany Mariano Fernandez-Fairen Spain Florian Fitzal Austria Jason B Fleming USA Michael Flierl USA Jens Peter Garne Denmark Cengiz Gebitekin Turkey Clemens Gerstenkorn Ge...

In the agricultural domain, the variety of data used by organizations is increasing rapidly. Also, there is an increasing demand for accessing these data. Now, the problem of the digital divide causes serious problems in manipulating the distributed information. Based on this condition, this paper presents the intelligent retrieval architecture of distributional agriculture science and technolo...

This paper presents an open platform developed for the teaching of Chemical Processes stressing the synergistic effects of combining in the same platform different tools and also different subjects. The benefit for the students of the approach followed is discussed, namely on what concerns knowledge integration. The results of a questionnaire which has been filled by the students during the las...

Özet. IBM’in bulut üzerinde sunduğu Bluemix Platform as a Service (PaaS) ortamı, bulut ortamındaki uygulama ve servisleri geliştirme, yönetim ve çalıştırma süreçlerini sağlayan entegre DevOps katmanıyla birlikte yazılım geliştirme süreçlerine önemli destek vaat etmektedir. Bu çalışmada İzmir Üniversitesi Yazılım Mühendisliği öğrencilerinin yazılım proje yönetimi ve yazılım kalite sağlama dersle...

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