Mashup applications combine pieces of functionality from several existing websites to provide new integrated functionality. Existing mashup tools typically address only some aspects of the problem and use a variety of sometimes overlapping and sometimes complementary approaches that make it difficult to compare them. In this ‘work in progress’ paper, we present a first draft of one reference ar...

In the past, Concept Exploration was the first step in defining the properties of a ship. Of the many ships studied during Concept Exploration, one was to be further developed and refined by the government during preliminary and contract design. Following award of the detail design and construction contract, a shipyard would complete the design and construct the ship. With the advent of Acquisi...

I report on two studies of tau neutrino mass recently carried out using data collected with the CLEO II detector at the CESR ee collider. First I present the results of an analysis of 473 decays of the type ! 5 and ! 3 2 , from which a 95% CL upper limit on m of 30 MeV is obtained. Results are also presented from a preliminary analysis of the decay ! 3 , using a sample of 29; 000 reconstructed ...

Rotating RAdio Transients are a new class of neutron stars discovered through the emission of radio bursts. Eleven sources are known up to now, but population studies predict these objects to be more numerous than the normal radio pulsar population. Multiwavelength observations of these peculiar objects are in progress to disentangle their spectral energy distribution, and then study in detail ...

The biology and mating behaviour of the spectacularly large and brightly coloured Neotropical longhorn beetle Schwarzerion holochlorum Bates 1872 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is largely unknown. For the first time I report and photographically document violent male-male competitions for females involving frequent amputations of competitors’ legs and antennae.

The objective of this long term study will be to determine factors that may influence the IT audit process and develop a model that can be used to improve process quality. Using focus groups of internal auditors at one large, health care products and services company we identify factors rated as critical by one or more of these groups and develop a first draft of a quality model. This model cou...

A string cosmology scenario (“pre-big-bang”) postulates that the evolution of the Universe starts from a state of very small curvature and coupling, undergoes a long phase of dilaton-driven kinetic inflation and at some later time joins smoothly standard radiation dominated cosmological evolution, thus giving rise to a singularity free inflationary cosmology. I report on recent progress in unde...

  Cartilage hair hypoplasia (CHH), is a rare cause of metaphyseal chondrodysplasia and short stature. Other features included hair abnormality, immunodeficiency, anemia, gastrointestinal disorders (Hirschsprung disease, celiac, …) and increased risk of cancer. The disease is an autosomal recessive disorder and previously has not been reported in Iran. We report a 9-year-old boy diagnosed as car...

A 55 years old male farmer was referred to the Medical Mycology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University with an ulcerative lesion on his left index finger and nodular lesions along the lymphatic of the left hand.  The Patient explained that he had been injured by a wire entanglement,in the site of lesion, about one year before.  Direct microscopic examination of the biopsy materi...

During year 2008–11, some infected leaves of eucalypt trees (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.) having blight and spot symptoms were collected in Golestan province (N Iran). The necrotic spots were appeared on both surfaces of the leaves and were circular to irregular, single to confluent, medium brown to light brown with red brown margin (Fig. 1A & B). In some cases, young leaves have been sever...