Social Software (SoS) is a term commonly used to describe a group of web based services that have capability to connect, disseminate information, network or blog. The popular SoS has created environments to attract millions of users and a favorable environment for businesses to exploit the benefit of having access to the users by adopting it as a business support tool. Studies indicate that SoS...

Modular SOS (MSOS) is a variant of conventional Structural Operational Semantics (SOS). Using MSOS, the transition rules for each construct of a programming language can be given definitively, once and for all, and do not need reformulation when further constructs are added to the language. MSOS thus provides an exceptionally high degree of modularity in language descriptions, thereby removing ...

The Constructive System-of-Systems (SoS) Integration Cost Model (COSOSIMO) is designed to estimate the effort associated with the Lead System Integrator (LSI) activities to define the SoS architecture, identify sources to either supply or develop the required SoS component systems, and eventually integrate and test these high level component systems. For the purposes of this cost model, an SoS ...

A scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) imaging system calculates and color codes speed of sound (SOS). We evaluated the SAM results for lymph node imaging and compared these results with those of light microscopy (LM). SAM showed normal structures and localized/diffuse lesions of the lymph node. Our results revealed that as a rule, soft areas such as cystic necrosis presented less SOS while harde...

Sixty-one phenyl 4-(2-oxoimidazolidin-1-yl)benzenesulfonates (PIB-SOs) and 13 of their tetrahydro-2-oxopyrimidin-1(2H)-yl analogues (PPB-SOs) were prepared and biologically evaluated. The antiproliferative activities of PIB-SOs on 16 cancer cell lines are in the nanomolar range and unaffected in cancer cells resistant to colchicine, paclitaxel, and vinblastine or overexpressing the P-glycoprote...

In neonates, quantitative ultrasound has been shown to be predictive of bone breakability and an index of biophysical property of bone. There are no data on bone speed of sound (SOS) in appropriate for gestational age (AGA) twins. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that AGA twins who had normal intrauterine growth have bone SOS similar to that of AGA singletons. We measured ti...

The crucial role of System of Systems (SoS) acquisition, in which multiple distributed systems that can (and do) operate independently assemble in networks and collaborate to achieve unique capabilities [1], has been increasingly recognized by various organizations and communities. The prevalence of SoS in acquisition community is a direct result of the severe acquisition failures in the past, ...

Hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (previously named veno-occlusive disease, SOS/VOD) is a serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Early identification of patients at risk of SOS/VOD may possibly improve the outcome and reduce mortality. Rotation thromboelastometry (ROTEM) is global assay allowing for the precise assessment of both bleeding and thrombotic condi...

Awidely usedmethod for determiningwhether amultivariate polynomial is a sum of squares of polynomials (SOS), called SOS decomposition, is to decide the feasibility of corresponding semi-definite programming (SDP) problem which can be efficiently solved in theory. In practice, although existing SDP solvers can work out some problems of big scale, the efficiency and reliability of such method dec...