Brownfields to green fields: Realising wider benefits from practical contaminant phytomanagement strategies

EHPnet: Turning Brownfields Green

Turning brownfields green again.

Background: Hot compresses on the right upper abdomen are used as support for patients with liver diseases in Germany. The study was designed to determine, whether they affect hepatic blood flow. Methods: Single dose kinetics of indocyanine green (ICG) were studied in 13 healthy subjects with or without hot compresses on the right upper abdomen over 40 minutes. The time interval between the inv...

Realising the Benefits of Formal Methods

What are the real benefits of formal methods and Why should we care about them? When and Where should we expect to use them, and Who should be involved? I suggest some answers to those questions and describe one approach, Correctness by Construction [1], that has achieved practical success on several real industrial developments. Based on this I propose some challenges for formal methods research.

Realising XML benefits in Life Insurance

XML is impacting the life insurance industry in a big way. A large number of life insurance companies has taken hold at all major life insurance companies. Most companies are in the process of exploring XML usage and the need for a standard vocabulary in order to facilitate communication. The widespread adoption and success of XML in the industry is due to comes from the proliferation of severa...

Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies

Multihoming is increasingly being employed by large enterprises and data centers as a mechanism to extract good performance from their provider connections. Today, multihomed end-networks can employ a variety of commercial route control products to optimize performance over multiple ISP links. However, little is known about the mechanisms employed by such products and their relative trade-offs....