Inbreeding is the mating of relatives that produce progeny having more homozygous alleles than non-inbred animals. Inbreeding increases numbers of recessive alleles, which is often associated with decreased performance known as inbreeding depression. The magnitude of inbreeding depression depends on the level of inbreeding in the animal. Level of inbreeding is expressed by the inbreeding coeffi...

Imagery is more and more becoming integral part of geo services. More generally, an increasing variety of sensors is generating massive amounts of data whose quantized nature frequently leads to rasterized data structures. Examples include 1-D time series, 2-D imagery, 3-D image time series and x/y/z spatial cubes, and 4-D x/y/z/t spatio-temporal cubes. The massive proliferation of such raster ...

Based on the service specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) support the visualization, access to vector and raster data or managing and search for spatial data. A standard for distributed spatial data processing was missing for a long time. This issue was addressed by the development of the OpenGIS Web Processing Service (WPS) specification. H...

Intraspinal transplantation of olfactory glial cells (OGC) has produced well-defined beneficial effects in experimental rodent models of spinal cord injury (SCI) and therefore has considerable promise as a treatment for severe SCI in human patients. In this study, we used clinical canine cases of severe SCI to determine whether derivation and transplantation of OGC from an autologous source was...

Introduction Aripiprazole is a third generation atypical antipsychotic and dopamine serotonin system stabilizer, effective against positive negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Within the group antipsychotics, aripiprazole shows relatively benign safety profile (e.g. lower metabolic impact, mild effect on cardiovascular parameters), although reported rate extrapyramidal side effects measurable. ...

The present research work is dedicated to the opening of the data pool of hydrographic measurement networks to exchange information compliant to legal requirements (INSPIRE Directive, Water Framework Directive) based on standardized interfaces (OGC Sensor Observation Service – SOS) as well as their quality assurance. The prototype to validate our approach makes it possible to send requests by u...

Interoperability is the main challenge on the way to efficiently find and access spatial data on the web. Significant contributions regarding interoperability have been made by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where web service standards to publish and download spatial data have been established. The OGCs GeoSPARQL specification targets spatial data on the Web as Linked Open Data (LOD) by ...

The aggregation of web services in order to achieve a common goal is a basic concept in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This paper demonstrates OGC Web Services (OWS) aggregation based on a simulated bomb threat scenario which is a possible disaster management example. Web services are aggregated based on the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) interface. Here the concept of a “Composite-WPS...

This article presents an SDI-based approach to implement selected web services within the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) Quality Assurance framework, according to the Commission Regulation 1122/2009. The Test Bed uses OGC conforming web services allowing for: (1) agricultural data transformation from national data schemas to the common LPIS Core Model, (2) transferring, validating and...