The Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 (MSRA) requires that each Fishery Management Plan in the United States “establish a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits . . . at a level such that overfishing does not occur in the fishery . . .” (MSRA, 2006). This requirement, which ref lects an increased emphasis on conservation, is new in the sense ...

Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) have been developed to provide a way for agents to communicate with each other supporting cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems. In the past few years many ACLs have been proposed for Multi-Agent Systems and new standards are emerging such as the FIPA ACL developed by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents. Despite these efforts, an important issue in t...

Adaptive collaborative learning support (ACLS) may be better than fixed forms of support at increasing learning from collaboration. While much existing adaptive assistance has focused on providing explicit feedback directly to the relevant student, we propose a twodimensional design space which explores alternative methods of adaptive assistance that are implicit, indirect, or both. We investig...

In conventional egress network access control (NAC) based on access control lists (ACLs), modifying the ACLs is a heavy task for administrators. To enable configuration without a large amount of administrators’ effort, we introduce capabilities to egress NAC. In our method, a user can transfer his/her access rights (capabilities) to other persons without asking administrators. To realize our me...

Cryopreserved patellar tendon allografts are often recommended for reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) because living donor fibroblasts are thought to promote repair. Animal studies, however, indicate that ligaments regenerate from recipient rather than donor cells. If applicable to man, these observations suggest that allograft cell viability is unimportant. We therefore used ...

Developers of current agent communication languages (ACLs) have exploited the parallels between agent communication and human communication in developing the syntax and semantics of their languages. In this paper we extend the comparison of agent communication language to natural language by proposing an ACL pragmatics. Just as in natural language, the pragmatics of an ACL is the relationship b...

BACKGROUND Antibodies to endothelial cells (aECs) and to cardiolipin (aCLs) are implicated in autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus vasculitis. Beta2-Glycoprotein 1 (beta2GP1) is a cofactor for aCLs. The present study investigated the possible role of aECs, aCLs, and abeta2GP1 in borderline hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS Seventy-three men with borderline hypertension (BHT) ...

This study examined whether combining lipid emulsion and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) improves survival in an unanesthetized swine model of bupivacaine- and hypoxia-induced cardiovascular collapse. Arterial and venous catheters and a tracheostomy were surgically placed in 26 swine receiving inhalation anesthesia. After a 1-hour recovery period, bupivacaine (5 mg/kg) was administered int...

The Generic Security Services API (GSS-API) provides a naming architecture that supports name-based authorization. GSS-API authenticates two named parties to each other. Names can be stored on access control lists (ACLs) to make authorization decisions. Advances in security mechanisms and the way implementers wish to use GSS-API require this model to be extended for the next version of GSS-API....