As well as providing various APIs for the development of inference engines and storage models, Jena is widely used in the development of systems or tools related with Web ontology management. However, Jena still has several problems with regard to the development of real applications, one of the most important being that its query processing performance is unacceptable. This paper proposes a st...

To support for interdisciplinary research in the Titech 21COE LKR Program, we are developing an advanced information storage system to manage the large-scale knowledge resources. The flexibility and extensibility are key issues to provide the required services. To realize the flexibility, we take an approach to combine two types of systems by web-service APIs: an information storage system prov...

Storage conditions of oil seeds before industrial extraction might influence the quality of the crude oil. The aim of present study was to clarify the storage able potency of high and low oleic cultivars of sunflower based on oil and fatty acid changes of seeds and their viability. The seed samples of four sunflower cultivars (two high oleic and two low oleic) were stored in three different tem...

background: smoking is one of the preventable causes of diseases as well as early deaths all around the world. in addition, conducting educational interventions plays a major role in preventing adolescents from smoking. therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on preventing shirazi students from smoking. met...

background : the knowledge of women about methods of cooking food materials is very important in keeping family members healthy.   objective : to assess the knowledge of women who live in ray city about methods of cooking food materials.   design : this was a field study in which the knowledge of women about cooking food materials were determined by using a questionnaire.   samples : 200 women ...

New research concerning knowledge and ontology management systems in many cases need the versatility of native XML storage for manipulations with diverse and changing data structures. Within the DEB (Dictionary Editor and Browser) development platform, the efficiency of the background data storage for all kinds of structures and services including dictionaries, wordnet semantic networks, classi...

Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically data stores providing several storage classes with different prices. An important problem facing by cloud users is how to exploit these storage classes to serve an application with a time-varying workload on its objects at minimum cost. This cost consists of residential cost (i.e., storage, Put and Get costs) and potential migration cost (i.e....