A recent update on how solid state NMR has aided the interpretation and understanding of host–guest interactions in field supramolecular assemblies is provided.

Allowing applications to survive hardware failure is an expensive undertaking, which generally involves reengineering software to include complicated recovery logic as well as deploying special-purpose hardware; this represents a severe barrier to improving the dependability of large or legacy applications. We describe the construction of a general and transparent high availability service that...

A rigorous language for discussing the issue of configuration management is currently lacking. To this end, we develop a simple state-machine model of configuration management. Observed behaviors comprise the state of a host and configuration processes accomplish state transitions. Using this language, we show that for one host in isolation and for some configuration processes, reproducibility ...

A mathematical model of the spatio-temporal dynamics of a two host, two parasitoid system is presented. There is a coupling of the four species through parasitism of both hosts by one of the parasitoids. The model comprises a system of four reaction-diffusion equations. The underlying system of ordinary differential equations, modelling the host-parasitoid population dynamics, has a unique posi...

Thousands of bacterial phylotypes colonise the human body and the host response to this bacterial challenge greatly influences our state of health or disease. The concept of infectogenomics highlights the importance of host genetic factors in determining the composition of human microbial biofilms and the response to this microbial challenge. We hereby introduce the term 'genetic dysbiosis' to ...