Legacy PSTN applications cause confusion: Disclaimers are no substitute for actual service

'Nosodes' are no substitute for vaccines.

A growing antivaccine movement in Canada and elsewhere is hearing more about an unproven homeopathic therapy, 'nosodes', as an alternative to routine vaccines. The present statement defines nosodes and describes limitations for their use in children. There is scant evidence in the medical literature for either the efficacy or safety of nosodes, which have not been well studied for the preventio...

Check boxes are no substitute for narrative documentation.

Service-enabling Legacy Applications for the GENIE Project

We present work done within the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system model (GENIE) project to take the original, complex, tightly-coupled Fortran earth modeling application that has been developed by the GENIE team and enable it for execution within a component-based execution environment. Further we have aimed to show that by representing the application as a set of high-level Java Web Service...

Voice Service Interworking for PSTN and IP Networks 1

In recent years, the Internet has proven its ability to carry real-time data, including voice. Today, a small amount of voice traffic has already been diverted from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to the Internet. If it expands, this phenomenon can completely change the rules of the game for telecommunications. This paper presents an overview of the main technical problems to be ad...

Voice Service Interworking for PSTN and IP Networks