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A Service Access Layer, at Your Service

Historically, Internet services provided clients with access to the resources of a particular host. However, today’s services are no longer defined by a single host or confined to a fixed location. Yet, the network architecture continues to impose an unfortunate coupling between hosts and services by binding connections to topology-dependent addresses, rather than topology-independent service n...

USAF Dental Evaluation & Consultation Service Effect of Handpiece Lubricant on Bond Strengths

Residual lubricants retained in the handpiece may be displaced onto the tooth surface. A few studies have examined the effect of contamination from handpiece lubrication oils on enamel and dentin bond strengths, but the results have been equivocal. 1,2 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of dental-handpiece lubricant on dentinal shear bond strength. A lubrication-free handpiece...

At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective

At Your Service: Embedded MT As A Service

A growing trend in Machine Translation (MT) is to view MT as an embedded part of an overall process instead of an end result itself. For the last four years, we have fielded (primarily) Commercial-Off-TheShelf (COTS) MT systems in an operational process. MT has been used to facilitate cross-language information retrieval (IR), topic detection and other, wide-scoped scenarios. These uses caused ...

At your service! Publishing and dissemination of scientific research

An increasing amount of traditional scientific journals are today migrating to the Open Access publishing model. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (QHW) started as such a traditional journal, published by Taylor & Francis with four issues per year but with access to the content only for subscribers. Generally university libraries, at least partly, paid for re...