With the increasing use of mobile computing devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), and an expansion of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), there is growing interest in an indoor Wireless Positioning Systems (WPS) based on WLAN infrastructure. This paper describes a WPS that uses the signal strength of WLAN transmissions from/to WLAN Access Points to determine the position of the mo...

An efficient implementation of large graph processing algorithms on distributed-memory machines requires a balanced partitioning of the graph across the machines. In a previous paper we presented an algorithm, named Workload Partitioning and Scheduling (WPS), that uses domainspecific knowledge to guide a sampling procedure in large implicitly-defined graphs. WPS’s sampling procedure is used for...

Mathematics is one of the most objective, logical, and practical academic disciplines. Yet, in addition to cognitive skills, mathematical problem solving also involves affective factors. In the current study, we first investigated effects of mathematics anxiety (MA) and mathematical metacognition on word problem solving (WPS). We tested 224 children (116 boys, M = 10.15 years old, SD = 0.56) wi...

Hydrologic regionalization deals with the investigation of homogeneity in watersheds and provides a classification of watersheds for regional analysis. The classification thus obtained can be used as a basis for mapping data from gauged to ungauged sites and can improve extreme event prediction. This paper proposes a wavelet power spectrum (WPS) coupled with the self-organizing map method for c...

Tracking data has become a valuable resource for establishing speed profiles for road networks, i.e., travel-time maps. While methods to derive travel time maps from GPS tracking data sources, such as floating car data (FCD), are available, the critical aspect in this process is to obtain amounts of data that fully cover all geographic areas of interest. In this work, we introduce Wireless Posi...

eScience is an umbrella concept which covers internet technologies, such as web service orchestration that involves manipulation and processing of high volumes of data, using simple and efficient methodologies. This concept is normally associated with bioinformatics, but nothing prevents the use of an identical approach for geoinfomatics and OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) web services like WP...

Lactobacillus casei is a Gram positive lactic acid bacterium used in dairy fermentations and present in the normal human gut microbiota. Certain strains are recognized as probiotics with beneficial effects on human and animal health. L. casei BL23 is a potential probiotic strain endowed with anti-inflammatory properties and a model strain widely used in genetic, physiological and biochemical st...

We sketch the main software components developed in the project RichWPS, which aims to support end users (no IT experts) to make better use of distributed geodata processing through the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS). These services include a service orchestration solution (modelling GUI and orchestration engine), several supporting modules and services (like a semantics-enabled service regis...

This review focuses on the enhanced functional characteristics of enzymatic hydrolysates of whey proteins (WPHs) in food applications compared to intact whey proteins (WPs). WPs are applied in foods as whey protein concentrates (WPCs), whey protein isolates (WPIs), and WPHs. WPs are byproducts of cheese production, used in a wide range of food applications due to their nutritional validity, fun...