The integration of marine and land based spatial information will support sustainable management and development of the coastal zone. Therefore, the development of a seamless platform covering the land and marine environments would facilitate more efficient and effective decision-making capabilities for any jurisdiction with land-marine interface. This paper discusses the potential for developi...

We studied the possible effects on serum carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) determination by a CDTect (Pharmacia) method of serum isolation in four different types of blood-collection tubes, namely: (1) glass tubes (glass Vacutainer tubes with no additive); (2) S-Monovette Neutral tubes (plastic tubes with no additive); (3) S-Monovette Serum tubes (plastic tubes with kaolin-coated plastic...

We introduce a metacomponent based architecture for network computing. Bond is an infrastructure for building domains associated with groups with common interests. In this paper we present the basic elements of the Bond architecture then we discuss the execution model, security and scheduling on a computer grid with au"tonomous nodes.

Human learners explore the world, they wonder, they get curios, they ignore, they get excited and ... sometimes bored. In the talk I will first define some key characteristics of mobile seamless learning support. Making use of sensor technology, ambient displays and augmented reality the current understanding of mobile learning will be broadened towards a vision of embedded and ubiquitous learn...

Widespread and affordable broadband access opens up opportunities for delivery of new streaming services. However, what is expected to fundamentally change the way that people use the network is the ability to produce, and seamlessly deliver and share their own multimedia content. SEA consortium is confident that in a few years everyone will be multimedia content producer, mediator and consumer...

Material properties and geometry are two important design parameters which their effects should be considered in a crashworthiness analysis. In this paper, the axial impact of metallic and hybrid energy absorbing thin-walled tubes with poly-gonal cross-section is simulated using LS-DYNA software. The combined effects of changing the geometry and material properties on the mass specific energ...

the importance of the use of activated charcoal tubes for sampling gases and vapors is very well-known. for producing these tubes in the country, their production started in the laboratory of the department of occupation al health using activated charcoal, polyurethane foam and glass wool and consequently two types of foamed and foamless tubes were produced. to investigate the quality of the ra...

including basic and performance. For example, section 4.1 shows spectral response characteristics of typical photocathodes and also gives the definition of photocathode sensitivity and its measurement procedure. Section 4.2 explains dynode types, structures and typical characteristics. Section 4.3 describes various performance characteristics such as time response, operating stability, sensitiv...

JCB • VOLUME 168 • NUMBER 3 • 2005 348 Saving varicella from suicide aricella zoster virus (VZV) causes both varicella (chickenpox) and zoster (shingles). VZV spreads throughout the body, but it does so slowly, and virus only emerges extracellularly in the skin where it can spread to other hosts. That behavior is now explained by Zhenglun Zhu (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), Jason Chen, An...

An e cient method for computing local auto-correlations leads to a new method for local adaptive prediction or prediction error filtering of multi-dimensional images. Using a conjugate-gradient method for least-squares optimization, we compute a di↵erent prediction filter for each sample in an image. These adaptive prediction filters preserve locally coherent signals, while attenuating random