ADVERTISEMENTS USING SEXUALITY: PETA POSTERS

PETA Regulatory Testing , PETA

The following comments are submitted on behalf of the more than 1.4 million members and supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in response to the nominations of substances to NTP for study in 2007 (March 29, 2007; Federal Register 72(60):14816-14818). PETA and PCRM are committed to using the best available sc...

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Annotating Accommodation Advertisements Using CERNO

There has been great interest in applying Semantic Web technologies to the tourism sector ever since Tim Berners-Lee introduced his vision. Unfortunately, there is a major obstacle in realizing such applications: tourist (or other) information on the Web has to be semantically annotated, and this happens to be a very timeand resource-consuming process. In this work we present the application of...

Peta-Scale Computing

In a few short years, computers capable of over one Petaflops performance will become a reality. The most likely approach for first successfully reaching this performance level will involve several thousands of parallel processing elements. What are the key considerations for building such systems? What are the software requirements and demands? How will applications scale? How reliable are the...

Discussed posters

In the last decade many advances have been made in understanding how HIV-1 interacts with macrophages (MØ) and dendritic cells (DC). Based on the notion that HIV-2 is a more attenuate model of infection, we proposed to explore the mechanisms of HIV-2 interaction with MØ and DCs. With this aim, we studied the efficiency of cis-infection of MØ and DCs. A cohort of 7 HIV-1 and 7 HIV-2 primary isol...