Introduction Suppose you are determined to “prove” that green apples cause cancer. An Optional Stopping strategy (OS) is where you keep looking sampling experimental data until the observed correlation between eating green applies and cancer is significantly different from 0 (where “significantly” means that the null hypothesis is rejected by standard statistical tests). That is, you follow a r...

Data as a Service (DaaS) builds on service-oriented technologies to enable fast access to data resources on the Web. However, this paradigm raises several new privacy concerns that traditional privacy models do not handle. In addition, DaaS composition may reveal privacysensitive information. In this paper, we propose a formal privacy model in order to extend DaaS descriptions with privacy capa...

According to a 1991-1992 survey of program directors of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs in the United States, the overall percentage of programs providing any training in first-trimester (70%) or second-trimester abortion (66%) has changed very little since 1985. However, the proportion of programs providing routine training in first-trimester abortion decreased from 23% in 1985 to...

Web Processing Services (WPS) expose processing functionality using Web Service technology. The WPS specification describes the interfaces to publish geospatial processes on the Web. It includes a platform-neutral and several platform-specific versions of its interfaces. Some of the platform-specific interfaces are mandatory and others are optional. In this paper, we present a method to support...

We propose to use variability techniques from the realm of product lines to help make service specifications more flexible. Feature diagrams provide a high-level model of the essential and optional aspects of services in combination with detailed models of service’s semantics based on visual contracts specified by graph transformation rules. In this way we hope to provide a precise, yet flexibl...

Service-learning is an experience-based approach to education and learning that has a set of diverse learning outcomes. Because of the uniqueness of its pedagogical approach and breadth of potential learning outcomes, management and business scholars have recognized its value. Much theory and supporting research has been generated on the effect of service-learning on college and university stud...

Recent SLA theory development, supported by related developments in cognitive psychology, has made the study of SL speech production, hitherto neglected, a promising area of work. Recent developments in L1 production studies have provided a gradually strengthening foundation for investigations of L2 production with both use and acquisitional concerns. This article briefly sketches the current f...

This document is one of a set of documents that together describe all aspects of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). IPP is an application-level protocol that can be used for distributed printing on the Internet. There are multiple parts to IPP, but the primary architectural components are the Model, the Protocol, and an interface to Directory Services. This document provides a statement of t...