Web Services are interfaces to a collection of operations that are network-accessible through standardized XML messaging, and whose features are described using standard XML-based languages. Semantic Web Services (SWS) describe semantically the internal structure and the functional/nonfunctional capabilities of the services, facilitating the design and evaluation of SWSs based on that semantic ...

Although it is now well established that a variety of ocular and systemic diseases, including diabetes, are harmful to the SWS cone pathway, causing a decrease in SW sensitivity,"the site(s) of the loss is not well known. The loss in SW sensitivity in diabetes has been variously attributed to changes in the lens, loss of SWS cone receptors due to their greater vulnerability to insult, the reduc...

Abstract Introduction Sleep disturbance from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) impairs overnight memory processing. This may be mediated by changes to slow wave (SWS) as less activity (SWA) is associated with worse spatial and declarative memory. We developed a within-subjects model of SWS-specific CPAP-withdrawal create 3 polysomnologically (PSG)-verified conditions 1) stable-SWS on CPAP, 2) SWS-f...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyze differences between Roma and non-Roma sex workers (SWs) according to their HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. In this study 91 Roma and 100 non-Roma SWs were included. They offered sex services at Belgrade hot spots during the period 2006-2007. Roma SW were significantly younger and with lower education and they were significantly more often without re...

Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) occurs sporadically with a frequency of approximately 1 in 50,000. SWS is a mesodermal phakomatosis. Klippel-Trenaunay Weber syndrome (KTWS) is another very rare phakomatosis. Overlap between SWS & KTWS is very rarely encountered. We report a 19 months old boy with features of both SWS and KTWS. The reported case had seizures, port wine haemangioma of the right side ...

BACKGROUND In addition to the cost and complexity of processing multiple signal channels, manual sleep staging is also tedious, time consuming, and error-prone. The aim of this paper is to propose an automatic slow wave sleep (SWS) detection method that uses only one channel of the electroencephalography (EEG) signal. NEW METHOD The proposed approach distinguishes itself from previous automat...

Recognition memory performance reflects two distinct memory processes: a conscious process of recollection, which allows remembering specific details of a previous event, and familiarity, which emerges in the absence of any conscious information about the context in which the event occurred. Slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep are differentially involved in the consolidatio...

Semantic Web Services (SWS) are Web Service (WS) descriptions augmented with semantic information. SWS enable intelligent reasoning and automation in areas such as service discovery, composition, mediation, ranking and invocation. This paper applies SWS to a previous protocol adapter which, operating within clearly defined constraints, maps SOAP Web Services to RESTful HTTP format. However, in ...

We stdy the spectral reflectivity of conical-, cylindricaland parabolic-shaped silicon nitride (Si3N4) sub-wavelength structures (SWS). A multilayer rigorous coupled-wave approach is adopted to estimate the reflection properties of Si3N4 SWS. Optimal shapes of SWS in terms of effective reflectance are analyzed over a range of wavelength. The results of our study show that a 3.15% effective refl...

Delta power, a measure of EEG activity in the 1-4 Hz range, in slow-wave sleep (SWS) is in a quantitative and predictive relationship with prior wakefulness. Thus, sleep loss evokes a proportional increase in delta power, and excess sleep a decrease. Therefore, delta power is thought to reflect SWS need and its underlying homeostatically regulated recovery process. The neurophysiological substr...