The application development in wireless sensor network (WSN) is complicated due to the diverse software and hardware platforms. One way to solve this problem is to apply the embedded Java virtual machine (EJVM) on the WSN nodes. With the EJVM, the users can program the applications by the popular and high-level abstract Java language. However, several challenges exist for applying the EJVM on t...

Um sistema de gerência de bancos de dados heterogêneos (SGBDH) precisa ter a capacidade de integrar novos tipos de sistemas, novas plataformas de hardware e software, novas formas de comunicação sem que seja necessário reestruturar seu projeto e implementação existentes. Sistemas de bancos de dados heterogêneos (SBDHs) têm sido apontados como uma das soluções mais viáveis para a integração de s...

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.

Abstract This paper aims at re-evaluating the significance of Peripatetic features in Severus’ exegesis Timaeus through a comparison between doxography PM and fragment his treatise on soul quoted by Eusebius. Indeed, until now, scholarly literature has been inclined to consider Severus as plain anti-Aristotelian pro-Stoic Platonist. However recent edition Porphyrian lost On Principles Matter al...

The Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital's legacy of patient care, teaching, and research in the neurosciences extends over a period of 50 years. The department's founder was Dr. David Reynolds. The subsequent chairman, Dr. Hubert Rosomoff, formed a solid foundation that helped put the department on the map. Drs. Barth Green and Roberto Heros, ...

The objective was to compare the formation of the acrosome in the testicular lobes of the species Antiteuchus tripterus F. and Platycarenus umbractulatus F., belonging to the subfamily Discocephalinae, and Euschistus heros F., Mormidea quinqueluteum L., Oebalus sp. and Thyanta perditor F., belonging to the Pentatominae (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). It was found that, in general, the behavior of ...