This paper presents an application programming interface (API) for users to select and activate multime-dia services in a multivendor environment. This API hides the complexities and details of handling these complex services from the application developers. An abstract model has been deened that accommodates an extensive set of services involving communication and end-systems. The paper deenes...

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a public health concern in Latin America and South America that when not correctly treated can lead to patient death. In this study, the influence of melanin produced by Paracoccidioides spp. on the effects of treatment with antimicrobial photodynamic inhibition (aPI) and antifungal drugs was evaluated. aPI was performed using toluidine blue (TBO) as a photosensi...

Performance is an extra-functional property of software systems which is often critical for achieving sufficient scalability or efficient resource utilisation. As many applications are built using application programmer interfaces (APIs) of execution platforms and external components, the performance of the used API implementations has a strong impact on the performance of the application itsel...

Applications that use the Solaris threads application programming interface (API), e.g. thr_create(), mutex_lock(), cond_signal(), etc. [1], are generally non-portable. Thus to port an application that uses Solaris threads to another platform will require some degree of work. Solaris now supports the POSIX threads API as well as the Solaris threads API. Therefore to make a Solaris threaded appl...

This paper presents an approach to identifying a domain word POS(Part of Speech) and idiom code identifiers written in Java programming language. To detect them, we extracted common identifiers from 14 Java API documents, and applied diverse filters. In addition, NLP (Natural Language Parser) has been used to detect common mistakes in the Java API documents. As a result, this paper identified 8...

Augmented multitouch interaction provides a better user experience, but requires the integration of other input sources, e.g., a digital pen, each featuring an own API. Our approach to a multitouch table is realized as a service-oriented architecture combining these different aspects under the hood of a common API. Their use make our table work with a variety of input devices and offer the oppo...

The current public health approach to avian influenza focuses on control and management after an outbreak has already occurred. While control methods have numerous benefits and have played a large role in containing outbreaks, although not until some days, weeks, and/or months following the initial infection(s), this approach does have its limitations. Not only is a focus on control following a...