Version control systems are widely used asynchronous collaborative systems in team-working environments, where document merging is a key function. However most existing systems only support limited semantic merging, and techniques for supporting semantic merging are strictly bound up with the merging algorithms that do syntactic merging. In this paper, we propose a flexible merging framework in...

Arguably, the main goal of Grid Computing is to facilitate the creation of Virtual Organizations (VOs); however, to date, not enough attention has been placed on the policies and mechanisms by which these VOs will operate. The core of the VO--roughly, the responsibility of each Physical Organization (PO) in the VO to contribute and not unjustly consume resources in achieving the overall goal of...

Increasingly heterogeneous and hierarchical parallel architectures are now mainstream, however, most of the traditional programming models are lowlevel and explicit, limiting portability, scalability, and productivity. Moreover, performance of applications that overspecify evaluation degree and order will suffer as they fail to adapt to changing architectures. This paper surveys the properties,...

INTRODUCTION Studies have shown that depression or anxiety occur in 10-20% of pregnant women. These disorders are often undertreated and may affect mothers and children's health. This study investigates the relation between antenatal maternal depression, anxiety and children's early cognitive development among 1380 two-year-old children and 1227 three-year-old children. METHODS In the French ...

We conducted a two-part study to understand the impact of authenti-cation on employees’ behaviour and productivity in a US governmental organi-sation. We asked 23 participants to keep a diary of all their authentication events within a 24-hour period, and subsequently interviewed them about their experience with authentication. We found that the authentication tasks employees have to perform no...

Recent efforts to design and develop Cloud technologies focus on defining novel methods, policies and mechanisms for efficiently managing Cloud infrastructures. One key challenge potential Cloud customers have before renting resources is to know how their services will behave in a set of resources and the costs involved when growing and shrinking their resource pool. Most of the studies in this...

In this paper, reliability block diagram of a sounding rocket separation system is determined and also, FMEA analysis of its spring mechanism is performed. This system is based on the flexible linear shape charge crosssection system and a spring mechanism to accelerate separation. In this investigation, reliability block diagram of the separation system include mechanical and electrical mechani...

This study was carried out to reveal the plastic wastes separation practice and disposal mechanism as well as awareness of the negative impact of plastic wastes on the environment, in Makurdi area of Benue State, Nigeria. Questionnaires were administered to 468 individual respondents in 6 sub-locations of the city. Inquisition was also made from 10 hospitals, 6 market centers and the waste mana...

Membrane processes are used in various felds such as the environment, agriculture and different industrial sectors. These clean techniques are often adopted for directed processes such as treatment, recovery, valorization and separation. In this review article, the theoretical principles and the different classifcations of liquid membranes, such as supported liquid membra...