The goal of this project is to develop solutions to enhance interoperability between bioinformatics applications. Most existing applications adopt different data formats, forcing biologists into tedious translation work. We propose to use of Nexus as an intermediate representation language. We develop a complete grammar for Nexus and we adopt this grammar to build a parser. The construction hea...

The Wells 6.0 magnitude earthquake of February 21, 2008, occurred on a previously unrecognized northeast-striking southeast-dipping fault situated beneath Town Creek Flat, a few miles north of Wells, Nevada. Focal depth of the earthquake was 5 miles (8 km). Bedrock geology in the surrounding ranges did not indicate the existence of the fault prior to the earthquake, and no surface rupture has b...

The recent development of microarray technology provided unprecedented opportunities to understand the genetic basis of aging. So far, many microarray studies have addressed aging-related expression patterns in multiple organisms and under different conditions. The number of relevant studies continues to increase rapidly. However, efficient exploitation of these vast data is frustrated by the l...

Competition is of interest to both policy makers and managers. A nation’s competitiveness is of utmost importance to policymakers especially in terms of attracting investments. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a report by the World Economic Forum which presents the position of each nation in terms of its Global Competitiveness Rank and a score. The score is derived at by analyzing severa...

To better understand intrinsic brain connections in major depression, we used a neuroimaging technique that measures resting state functional connectivity using functional MRI (fMRI). Three different brain networks--the cognitive control network, default mode network, and affective network--were investigated. Compared with controls, in depressed subjects each of these three networks had increas...

BACKGROUND The paper reports on the importance of the interpersonal nexus within qualitative research processes, from a recent research project on patient experiences of shoulder surgery. Our aim is to reveal the importance of qualitative research processes and specifically the role of the interpersonal nexus in generating quality data. Literature related to the importance of human interactions...

In this paper, we present a performance evaluation of a wide-area cluster system based on a rewallenabled Globus metacomputing toolkit. In order to establish communication links beyond the rewall, we have designed and implemented a resource manager called RMF (Resource Manager beyond the Firewall) and the Nexus Proxy, which relays TCP communication links beyond the rewall. In order to extend th...

Developing country policy makers worry about national competitiveness and closely watch indices ranking international competitive performance. This paper analyzes from the development economics perspective if competitiveness is a legitimate policy concern, and if the leading indices deserve the attention they get. It assesses the best known index, from the World Economic Forum, and finds grave ...

In this paper, the potential of World Economic Forum (WEF) model to analyze tourism competitiveness is studied. The study aims WEF model’s validity, reliability and dimensionality. It attempts determine for studying destinations’ in an integrated context. Finally, using model, Portugal’s analyzed benchmarking methodology used Rasch mathematical a that has been effectively demonstrated social sc...