An increasing portion of biomedical research relies on the use of biobanks and databases. Sharing of such resources is essential for optimizing knowledge production. A major obstacle for sharing bioresources is the lack of recognition for the efforts involved in establishing, maintaining and sharing them, due to, in particular, the absence of adequate tools. Increasing demands on biobanks and d...

BACKGROUND The United Nations has called for countries to improve access to mobility devices when needed. The World Health Organization has published guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less-resourced settings. Yet little is known about the extent to which appropriate wheelchairs are available and provided according to international guidelines. This study's purpose was to descr...

In this paper, we describe a new approach to enhance the performance of CORBA-based applications. For that purpose, we improve access to CORBA objects with the help of value types. In this way, only few changes are necessary to speed up existing CORBA applications. Moreover, we discuss several techniques for updating cache objects within the scope of the CORBA event service. Finally, we compare...