An increasing number of organisations decide to promote their core competence only. So, they outsource the required IT Services to an IT service provider and negotiate a Service Level Agreement (SLA) which is the contract between the provider and the organisation (customer). One of the major problems of SLA negotiation is the knowledge gap between provider and customer. The knowledge gap is the...

To assess the utility of laser altimetry for studies in dynamical oceanography, we present a comparison of the Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA)-01 and the TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P) radar altimeter on global and regional scales. We compare all 1.1 million SLA-01 range measurements over the oceans to the CSRMSS95 gridded mean sea surface model and find the overall root mean square (RMS) difference to be ...

Novel computing paradigms like Grid and Cloud computing demand guarantees on non-functional requirements such as application execution time or price. Such requirements are usually negotiated following a specific Quality of Service (QoS) model and are expressed using Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Currently available QoS models assume either that service provider and consumer have matching SLA...

Various adjuvants in combination with different antigens have been utilized as a vaccine candidate against leishmaniasis. However, the search for ideal adjuvants is still pursued due to the inefficiencies of current compounds. In the present study, the effect of imiquimod, as an adjuvant, is studied with soluble Leishmania antigens (SLA) in BALB/c mice. Four groups of mice were immunized with S...

In today’s enterprise service oriented software architectures, database systems are a crucial component for the quality of service (QoS) management between customers and service providers. The database workload consists of requests stemming from many different service classes, each of which has a dedicated service level agreement (SLA). We present an adaptive QoS management that is based on an ...

Iron transport by everted duodenal sacs in vitro was studied in mice with sex-linked anemia (gene symbol sla) (an inherited iron deficiency anemia), in normal mice, and in normal mice on iron-deficient and iron supplemented diets. Although the over-all mucosal uptake of iron was the same in sla and normal sacs, transport of iron to the inside of the sac was much decreased in sla. The iron trans...

This study was aimed to search genetic variants, to investigate phylogenetic relationships between pig breeds and to provide basic genetic information of Korean Native Pigs (KNP) using the variations of the Swine Leukocyte Antigen-6 (SLA-6) gene. Cloning of the Swine Leukocyte Antigen (SLA)-6 gene in the MHC non-classical region was performed with spleen tissues of Korean Native Pigs (KNP). Seq...

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate and analyse the significance Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) its application rural development projects policies. A literature review conducted, with focus being on components SLA. researchers noted that SLA effectively interrogates livelihoods poor various mechanisms in approach. These include all forms capital, vulnerability aspect, li...

Service level agreement (SLA) is an essential part of cloud systems to ensure maximum availability of services for customers. With a violation of SLA, the provider has to pay penalties. Thus, being able to predict SLA violations favors both the customers and the providers. In this paper, we explore two machine learning models: Naive Bayes and Random Forest Classifiers to predict SLA violations....