The concept of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming increasingly important not only in research, but also in practice. SOA has emerged as a major topic, especially in regards to the banking industry as it is one of the cutting-edge industries concerning service-orientation. SOA implementation in the German banking industry varies, with some still in the adoption phase and others alre...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just another product or technology to be added to the IT environment. Rather, SOA requires significant and often fairly far-reaching changes to truly reap all the benefits of adopting SOA. To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five years Oracle has been worki...

In mice, behavioral acceptance of the bitter compound sucrose octaacetate (SOA) depends on allelic variation of a single gene, Soa. The SW.B6-Soa(b)congenic mouse strain has the genetic background of an "SOA taster" SWR/J strain and an Soa-containing donor chromosome fragment from an "SOA nontaster" C57BL/6J strain. Using microsatellite markers polymorphic between the two parental strains, we d...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for shoulder osteoarthritis (SOA) have been poorly studied. SOA has two anatomical subtypes: primary centred SOA (centred SOA) and rotator cuff-related OA (non-centred SOA). We examined whether cardiometabolic risk factors are preferentially associated with centred than mechanical-induced non-centred SOA. METHODS This 2004-2012 retrospective multicentric study included...

In this study, we apply several recently proposed models to the evolution of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) and organic gases advected from downtown Mexico City at an altitude of ∼3.5 km during three days of aging, in a way that is directly comparable to simulations in regional and global models. We constrain the model with and compare its results to available observations. The model SOA form...