The concept of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is widely used for integrating heterogeneous applications and systems via message-based communication. Typically, EAI servers provide a huge set of specific inbound and outbound adapters used for interacting with the external systems and for converting proprietary message formats. However, the main problems in currently available products ...

A large-scale functional genomics project was initiated to study the function of chromatin-related genes in maize (Zea mays). Transgenic lines containing short gene segments in inverted repeat orientation designed to reduce expression of target genes by RNA interference (RNAi) were isolated, propagated, and analyzed in a variety of assays. Analysis of the selectable marker expression over multi...

Abtract To assess, in vivo, muscle oxidative efficiency in older people we studied haematic lactate in blood samples obtained from 34 older and 10 young subjects before and after an incremental exercise performed on a treadmill, in order to identify a possible defect as a factor determining motor performance impairment. The exercise protocol consisted of 11 steps of 2 minutes of duration, at a ...

The human brain is a complex network of interconnected brain regions. In adulthood, the brain's network was recently found to be under genetic influence. However, the extent to which genes influence the functional brain network early in development is not yet known. We report on the heritability of functional brain efficiency during early brain development. Using a twin design, young children u...

Brain anatomical networks are sparse, complex, and have economical small-world properties. We investigated the efficiency and cost of human brain functional networks measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a factorial design: two groups of healthy old (N = 11; mean age = 66.5 years) and healthy young (N = 15; mean age = 24.7 years) volunteers were each scanned twice in a ...

Our brain is a complex network in which information is continuously processed and transported between spatially distributed but functionally linked regions. Recent studies have shown that the functional connections of the brain network are organized in a highly efficient small-world manner, indicating a high level of local neighborhood clustering, together with the existence of more long-distan...

Functional languages offer considerable benefit to the programmer/researcher. Simple syntax, ease of programming, and availability make functional languages a desirable choice. There are many tools available to the researcher when developing client-server applications. But how do these environments compare? This paper will consider a functional language, Scheme, and compare its capabilities to ...

Flexibility becomes a major concern for the development of multimedia and mobile communication systems, as well as classical high-performance and low-energy consumption constraints. The use of general-purpose processors solves flexibility problems but fails to cope with the increasing demand for energy efficiency. This paper presents the DART architecture based on the functionallevel reconfigur...

Previous studies have shown the functional neural circuitry differences before and after an explicitly learned motor sequence task, but have not assessed these changes during the process of motor skill learning. Functional magnetic resonance imaging activity was measured while participants (n=13) were asked to tap their fingers to visually presented sequences in blocks that were either the same...