This paper describes a new tuple space web service for coordination and communication in distributed web applications. This web service is based on the Linda programming model. Linda is a coordination language for parallel and distributed processing, providing a communication mechanism based on a logically shared memory space. The original Linda model has been extended through the provision of ...

Water-pipe smoking (WPS) is a common practice in the Middle East and is now gaining popularity in Europe and the United States. However, there is a limited number of studies on the respiratory effects of WPS. More specifically, the underlying pulmonary pathophysiological mechanisms related to WPS exposure are not understood. Presently, we assessed the respiratory effects of nose-only exposure t...

This paper discusses the use of a Tuple Space Web Service for the construction of parallel processing applications in the field of bioinformatics. This system is based on Linda, which is a coordination language for parallel and distributed processing. The use of a coordination language greatly simplifies the parallelization of bioinformatics applications. Since this system is conceived as a web...

Current Natural Language Processing tools provide shallow semantics for textual data. These kind of knowledge could be used in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we describe F-EXT-WS, a Portuguese Language Processing Service that is now available at the Web. The first version of this service provides Part-of-Speech Tagging, Noun Phrase Chunking and Named Entity Recognition. All these tools were b...

There is a global increase in the popularity of water-pipe tobacco smoking including in Europe and North America. Nevertheless, little is known about the male reproductive effects of water-pipe smoke (WPS), especially after long-term exposure. Here, we assessed effects of WPS exposure (30 min/day) in male mice for 6 months. Control mice were exposed to air-only for the same period of time. Twen...

Service-oriented architecture facilitates the running time of interactions by using business integration on the networks. Currently, web services are considered as the best option to provide Internet services. Due to an increasing number of Web users and the complexity of users’ queries, simple and atomic services are not able to meet the needs of users; and to provide complex services, it requ...

There is been a continuous effort by the software developers to reduce cost and time to deliver the software and this has led to the advancements in service oriented paradigm. Organizations across all spectra have already deployed their main operations to the Web, which has brought about a fast growth of various Web services. This has dramatically increased the need to build a fundamental infra...

Recovering resources from water purification sludge (WPS) have been gradually stipulated in environmental protection laws and regulations in many nations. Hence, reusing the WPS is becoming an important topic, and recovering alum from WPS is one of the many practical alternatives. Most previous research efforts have been conducted on studying the amphoteric characteristic of aluminum hydroxide ...