Aspect mining aims at identifying, analysing, and refactoring crosscutting concerns throughout a legacy system for the purpose of improving software modularisation. This paper presents our investigation into raising the benefits of aspect mining to high-level domain-specific models. A key contribution is the capability to identify crosscutting concerns early in development, which will assist in...

Middleware provides distributed objects with a software infrastructure that offers a set of well-known distribution transparencies. These transparencies enable the rapid introduction of applications for heterogeneous, distributed systems. However, to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) system-specific QoS mechanisms need to be controlled. Accessing the low-level mechanisms directly by a...

This paper describes a composite evolution approach which integrates the evolution of the various types of entities in an object-oriented database into one model. The approach provides maintainers with a coherent and comprehensible view of the system and at the same time maintains change histories at a fine granularity. Links among meta-objects are implemented using dynamic relationships which ...

Background: Every year four million babies die in the first month of life and a quarter of these take place in India. A package of essential newborn care practices exists, which has a proven impact on reducing mortality, and can be implemented in low resource settings. However, childbirth and the neonatal period are culturally important times, during which there is strong adherence to tradition...

in order to evaluate the effect of different sources and rates of nitrogen the growth and biomass production of purslane, a randomized complete block design was conducted with three replications at the agricultural research farm of shahrekord university in 2012. fertilization treatments were consisted of control (no n amendment), 30 and 90 kg n ha-1in the form of urea fertilizer, 30 and 90 kg n...

A novel laser-switch has been developed that unites a vertical link structure and a fuse in a vertical arrangement. The structure has been designed and fabricated in a standard three-level metal CMOS process and has been successfully verified. The area of the proposed linking and cutting structure is 20% lower compared to a combination of conventional laser-link and fuse, and the processing tim...

Nordh, N.-E. 2005 Long term changes in stand structure and biomass production in short rotation willow coppice. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-6919-8. Short rotation willow coppice (SRWC) is a recently commercialised agricultural crop in Sweden, producing biomass for energy. The expected lifespan of a SRWC plantation is more than 20 years, or at least 5 harvests. Consequentl...

The MIRUP (Modified Integer Round-Up Property) leads to an upper bound for the gap between the optimal value of the integer problem and that of the corresponding continuous relaxation rounded up. This property is known to hold for many instances of the one-dimensional cutting stock problem but there are not known so far any results with respect to the two-dimensional case. In this paper we inve...

introduction:today, the growing amount of paper consumption and consequently deforestation and environmental destruction have imposed financial burden on different countries around the world. this study aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitude, and performance of yazd health volunteers on cutting down the consumption of paper. methods: this descriptive-cross sectional study was condu...

Estimation and modeling of soft tissue deformation during cutting is important for developing a reality based haptic interaction model for surgical training and simulation. In this paper, we are interested in understanding the effect of parameter changes, such as the cutting speed and the angle of cutting, to develop a predictive model that is self consistent with the experimental observations....