With the advances in multimedia databases and the popularization of the Internet, it is now possible to access large multimedia data repositories distributed throughout the world. One of the challenging problems in such an access is how the information in the respective databases can be summarized to enable an intelligent selection of relevant database sites based on visual queries. This paper ...

power of attorney is a voidable contract, and article 678 of civil law involves: power of attorney is being terminated, because of client's dethrone or lawyer's resignation. according to jurisprudential texts, the lawyer is trustee and will not be responsible unless in case of abuse or wastage. the important question is that: whether lawyer can resign without considering client's...

if the agent, who has the right to appoint a proxy, exercises his right and appoints another person for pursuing the subject of agency, the appointed person is not the agent of the appointer; rather, he is regarded as the indirect agent of the client. therefore, if the object of agency is conclusion of a transaction contract and the indirect proxy concludes it, that [contract] belongs to the cl...

Component software, distribution, and the use of clusters of workstations are all key trends in today's technology. Little attention has been paid, however, to the network bandwidth required for data intensive applications. In the context of databases, much work has been done in parallelization strategies for monolithic architectures with dedicated, specialized networks or over disk arrays. We ...