Grid computing is the computing infrastructure of the next century where unlimited hardware and software resources are delivered to user‟s fingertips. Much of the power delivered by grid computing is realized through application software made readily available to its users. The process of application deployment and deliverance to the end-users though is perplexed with options and requirements n...

Anatomy has long been a topic of interest amongst both those in medicine and those not. The understanding of biology, in terms of the function and structure of the organs and other structures of the body, has dramatically changed over time, and has been closely related to both scientific improvement and religious feeling. There is no doubt that gross anatomy is one of the preclinical cornerston...

We define in this document a framework of media resources manipulation in developing an adaptive content delivery systems and technologies. We discuss the importance of media resources manipulation in an adaptation and negotiation architecture. The manipulation is discussed in term of extraction, description, binary relations definition (related resources approach) and resources adaptation. We ...

DIGGING DEEPER: FOUR LEVELS OF MEANING Recounting the plot of a movie, telling what happens, is the simplest way to explain it to someone else. But this is neither a film review nor a film analysis. It’s merely a synopsis that anyone else who sees or has seen the movie will likely agree with. This level of content may be called the referential content, since it refers directly to things that ha...

Natural resources data is usually geo-referenced. It contains mostly 1-n dimension scalar or vector values, and can be associated with meteorology, geology, water, weather, etc. Scientists apply natural resources data in different models in order to predict or model the real world. Computer applications for this area have to be based on a powerful, adaptable and flexible architecture, besides u...

S tudents often approach the familiar stories of the Bible wondering what more they can learn from texts they have been reading since childhood.As teachers, we face the challenge of getting students to focus on the text itself, without being overly influenced by the preconceptions and interpretations that have become attached to these stories through centuries of retelling and commentary. One d...

This paper examines, whether market participants differently assess the information uncertainty associated with earnings management depending on the degree of income smoothing. Hypothesis tests using annual data for 850 firms listed on German stock exchanges for the years 1990 to 2003 show that firm years with low (high) degrees of earnings management display lower (higher) degrees of informati...