WELCOME to the fi rst issue of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing in 2010. In this issue, I am pleased to publish six research papers, which include two regular submissions and four papers from a Special Section on Transactional Web Services. In this editorial preface, I would like to introduce these papers in the context of the body of knowledge areas of services computing. The theme ...

The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and photoluminescence characteristics of gold and silver micro-flowers were compared to those of gold and silver nanoparticles. The microflower structures were grown under electron beam deposition using an alumina template. Both types of metallic micro-flowers showed systematic arrangements; they formed islands of flowers about 20 μm across, each one comprise...

The international stability is viewed as corollary of the sustainable growth. This has only technology-driven solution, at global village extension, with required appropriateness and shared acceptation. The survey, on such guess, looks at the robot age potential, as supplementary aid in the balanced world deployment that adds to the socio-economic and politico-legal frames. The analysis moves f...

Smartphones have become truly ubiquitous devices and it is hard to imagine our daily life without them. Today’s modern smartphones offer a diverse set of services and rich functionalities, which include gaming, web browsing, emails, GPS navigation, voice search and high definition video. Such rich functionalities attracted a large number of smartphone owners (referred to as users), and as a res...

NanomedicineVol. 16, No. 2 EditorialHydrogel–nanoparticle hybrids for biomedical applications: principles and advantagesNur Shahirah Sulaiman, Nurasyikin Hamzah, Siti Fatimah Zakaria, Fairuz Che Othman & Izzat Fahimuddin Mohamed SuffianNur SulaimanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Kulliyyah Pharmacy, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, MalaysiaSearch more pap...

Research between physical activity and cognitive work in children is still relatively rare inconsistent, even though children's motor development learning are related to positive effects on academic work. This study aims determine the increase mathematical logical intelligence of early childhood through activity. action research. type research was a sequential exploratory design. Data analysis ...

Formation of the kidney requires reciprocal signaling among the ureteric tubules, cap mesenchyme and surrounding stromal mesenchyme to orchestrate complex morphogenetic events. The protocadherin Fat4 influences signaling from stromal to cap mesenchyme cells to influence their differentiation into nephrons. Here we characterize the role of a putative binding partner of Fat4, the protocadherin Dc...

Joseph J. Magadula*, Ester Innocent, Zakaria H. Mbwambo and Modest C. Kapingu Institute of Traditional Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P. O. Box 65001, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania *Corresponding author International Journal of Current Research and Academic Review ISSN: 2347-3215 Volume 2 Number 10 (October-2014) pp. 99-111 www.ijcrar.com Int.J.Curr.Res.Aca.Rev.2014; 2(...

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is the most widely used tool for project management; however, it requires three estimates for the duration of each activity as its input. This is too much uncertain input requirement from the managers, making the critical path (CP) unstable causing major difficulties for the manager. A linear programming formulation of the project network is proposed for determini...

Recent breakthroughs in solid-state photonic quantum technologies enable generating and detecting single photons with near-unity efficiency as required for a range of photonic quantum technologies. The lack of methods to simultaneously generate and control photons within the same chip, however, has formed a main obstacle to achieving efficient multi-qubit gates and to harness the advantages of ...