Deep-sea ecosystems are reservoirs of biodiversity that largely unexplored, but their exploration and biodiscovery becoming a reality thanks to biotechnological advances (e.g., omics technologies) integration in an expanding network marine infrastructures for the seas, such as cabled observatories. While still its infancy, application environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding approaches is revolut...

Recently, Africa has witnessed an upsurge in its infrastructure endowments mostly attributed to developments the ICT sector. At same time, while CO2 emission is reducing other regions such as Europe, rather witnessing upsurge. The objective of this study evaluate: (i) effects infrastructures on and (ii) how trade openness governance contribute mitigating these effects. results from system GMM m...

Security infrastructures are increasingly used in the health care and welfare sector, particularly for providing security, like confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, nonrepudiation, and auditing. Especially within the health care sector, there is a need for different kinds of certificates, namely public-key certificates and attribute certificates. This necessity is caused by the huge range ...

Large-scale computing systems are attractive for networked applications by providing scalable infrastructures. To launch distributed data-intensive computing applications in such infrastructures, communication cost, for example to transfer data files to compute nodes, can be a critical challenge due to point-topoint bandwidth scarcity. One way to improve communication performance is to employ p...

Thanks to the revolutions in information technology, human "-omics" research, and intricate medical device development, academic health centers (AHCs) now have an unparalleled potential to become translational engines that both generate basic science advances and then translate them into human studies and, ultimately, into improved health care. However, AHC infrastructures have traditionally be...

Information infrastructures have gained significant momentum in today’s information economy. They are defined as shared, open and evolving socio-technical systems providing distinct IT capabilities. The Cassandra EU project aims to enhance visibility of the international flow of goods over sea with an electronic data pipeline as an information infrastructure. This paper presents data sharing is...

Xcell Journal Third Quarter 2011 Traditional telecom networks are fundamentally configured to transport voice, such as phone service. Internet services piggyback on this legacy platform. Currently, designers are creating the next-generation network (NGN) to transport data, voice and video simultaneously, providing transparency and scalability while minimizing total operational cost. The NGN is ...

Monitoring services are an essential component of large-scale computing infrastructures due to providing information which can be used by humans as well as applications to closely follow the progress of computations, to evaluate the performance of ongoing computing, etc. However, the users are usually left alone with performance measurements as to the interpreting and detecting of execution fla...