Cloud computing technology is recently gaining widespread popularity among business owners and consumers/users for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. This technology offers users on-demand access to shared resources, services, and applications with the Internet access by eliminating the need for tedious installation procedures. Security and privacy issues in cloud computing is o...

BACKGROUND To expand on the range of products which can be obtained from lignocellulosic biomass, the lignin component should be utilized as feedstock for value-added chemicals such as substituted aromatics, instead of being incinerated for heat and energy. Enzymes could provide an effective means for lignin depolymerization into products of interest. In this study, soil bacteria were isolated ...

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. PREFACE This thesis is thought to be reflective of the transformation, mistily rendered in the citation on the previous page, which has taken place in me since I have handed in my Ph.D. thesis in the spring of 1996. If this transformation, no...

We propose to use cloud computing for solving constraint programing problems in parallel. We used the Embarrassingly Parallel Search (EPS) method in conjunction with Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft. EPS decomposes the problem in many distinct subproblems which are then solved independently by workers. EPS has three advantages: it is an effi...

Overview In cloud-infrastructure, cloud service providers (e.g. Amazon Web Service, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure) are not allowed to access the content of customer virtual machines. In consequence, it is hard for the providers to protect their infrastructure from malware infections. As the virtual machines are usually created from a limited set of standard images and likely share many vulnerabili...

Geoprocessing functions are important for discovering hidden and useful geospatial information, and are widely used in Earth science modeling and applications. The growth of the Web has resulted in the Web-based sharing of large volumes of distributed geospatial data and computational resources. Processing heterogeneous and distributed data into information requires a powerful, scalable, and in...

For example, a standard definition video of 100GB+ costs roughly $252 per year to store and transmit via a cloud service such as Windows Azure. The cost could run into hundreds of thousands of dollars when hours of videos or thousands of uncompressed images in terabytes are stored. The transmission cost and time of such uncompressed data is additional overhead, since it requires gigabytes of ba...

Cloud computing services have emerged as a cost-effective alternative for cluster systems as the number of genomes and required computation power to analyze them increased in recent years. Here we introduce the Microsoft Azure platform with detailed execution steps and a cost comparison with Amazon Web Services.

The proteolytic activity of trypsin releases the dye Remazol Brilliant Blue from its high molecular weight substrate, the skin powder (Hide Powder Azure, Sigma), with an increase in absorbance at 595 nm. Active alpha(2)- macroglobulin (80 mug/ml) totally inhibits the proteolytic activity of trypsin (14 mug/ml) by trapping this protease. But after a 20 min incubation of alpha(2)-macroglobulin at...