You Can Check out Any Time You like, but Can You Really Leave?

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1-800-226-6113 Since the events of 9/11, including the anthrax mailings, how many of you ended up receiving all kinds of “specimens” for possible anthrax cultures, ranging from shoe powder to flour to small bits of styrofoam? That day our world forever changed, as did our laboratories. Now, we worry about recognizing agents of bioterrorism among all of those various culture specimens, and micro...

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'You Can Run, but You Cannot Hide': Tracking Objects that leave the Field-of-View

In the past, there has been significant research on tracking objects based on features that characterize objects. However, once the features to detect the object are not available from the position of a tracker, it is not clear how to track the object. Our goal in this paper is to track an object even though the object leaves the field-of-view. In this paper, we firstly describe the problems re...

Constraint Acquisition - You Can Chase but You Cannot Find

We identify established tableaux techniques as an invaluable tool for semantic knowledge acquisition in the design process of relational databases. Sample databases allow users and designers to judge, justify, convey and test their understanding of the semantics of the future database. In the case of integrity constraints such sample data can provide considerable assistance for deciding whether...

Activity Server: You can run but you can't hide

The activity server is a software utility that provides high-level information on what a user or a number of users are doing by combining data inputs from various sources. These sources are: 1) thejinger server, 2) the phone server, and 3) the location server. The finger server provides information on users' activities or lack thereof on hosts within a local network; the phone server abstracts ...