For proper management of total product life cycle, it is fundamentally important to systematize design and engineering information about product systems. For example, maintenance operation could be more efficiently performed, if appropriate parts design information is available at the maintenance site. Such information shall be available as an information infrastructure for various kinds of eng...

This report proposes an investigation of an adaptive architecture for interest management in large-scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs). DVEs, like many distributed systems suffer from large amounts of extraneous network communication in order to ensure replicated data remains consistent. Techniques for minimisation of this overhead by specifying data subscriptions on a ‘per-node’ basi...

OpenCM is a configuration managment system that supports inter-organizational collaboration, strong content integrity checks, and fine-grain access controls through the pervasive use of cryptographic naming and signing. Released as an alpha in June 2002, OpenCM is slowly displacing CVS among projects that have high integrity requirements for their repositories. The most recent alpha version is ...

Dr. Muller is the Executive Director, National Association For Continence (NAFC). The NAFC is a national, private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with incontinence. The NAFC’s purpose is to be the leading source for public education and advocacy about the causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and management alternatives for incontinence. This ar...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Snakebite admissions in Zimbabwe: Pattern, clinical presentation and managment......................................... D Tagwireyi, DE Ball, CFB Nhachi.................................. 17 The effects of hospitalization on the sleep patterns of patients aged 2030 years old admitted at a central Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe...................................... HV Gundani, K M...

In times of increasing grid oriented computing environments, the integration and orchestration of business services become more and more emergent. This challenge is taken in the context of the EU project Adapative Services Grid. As a base for the execution of workflow specifications a distributed execution environment for simple business services and service managment is needed. This paper show...