Web services are gaining more and more attention in the business field and in the academic research. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is the standard messaging format for Web services. The single services are described in Web Services Description Language (WSDL). More recently, the REST architecture specified by Roy T. Fielding has received more attention in creating better Web services. Th...

Using data for 2008-2009, we determine winning strategies for the game in two different formats: 50-over one-day internationals and 20-over games from the Indian Premier League and Twenty20 Internationals. We find that attacking batting and defensive bowling outperform all other strategies in determining the probability of winning in both formats despite the thirty over difference between them....

The spatial distribution of the background events may affect the source detection capability of IBIS at high energies (≥ 200 keV) for both ISGRI and PICsIT layers. The observed background is found to be variable and spatially structured, and in some cases its properties strongly deviate from the expected statistical behaviour. Background correction methods are then necessary to improve the qual...

The Messenger 152 – June 2013 sky-emission fringes and cannot be used for correcting the fringe patterns. There­ fore, fringes are not removed by the standard data­processing techniques (bias subtraction, bad pixel masking, and flat-fielding). Fringe removal requires an extra step, where a description of the fringe pattern is scaled and subtracted from each image. This has traditionally been a ...

Correspondence: Mr James Fielding, Communicable Diseases Section, Department of Human Services, Level 17/120 Spencer Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Telephone: +61 3 9637 4872. Facsimile: +61 3 9637 4477. Email: [email protected] Sporadic outbreaks of measles continue to occur throughout Australia that require considerable expenditure of time and resources to control. We report an outbr...

Sustainability means keeping an existing system operational and maintaining the ability to manufacture and field versions of the system that satisfy the original requirements. Sustainability also includes manufacturing and fielding revised versions of the system that satisfy evolving requirements, which often requires the replacement of technologies used in the original system with newer techno...

Tailored patient information (TPI) systems are computer programs which produce persoualised heath-information material for patients. TPI systems are of growing interest to the natural-language generation (NLG) community; many TPI systems have also been developed in the medical community, usually with mail-merge technology. No matter what technology is used, experience shows that it is not easy ...

1. Introduction and Motivation The International Price Program (IPP) publishes monthly price indexes which measure the average change over time in prices of internationally traded products and services. IPP's sampling methodology supports its published merchandise price indexes by attempting to maintain a minimum number of items over the two year life cycle 1 of each published stratum. Retentio...

Adequate calibration of the NGST science instruments is a critical step in order to achieve the science goals of the mission. This report presents a discussion of some key calibration issues for NGST, with an attempt to produce quantitative—albeit rough—estimates of the quality and frequency of the required observations. In several areas, non-traditional approaches—such as self-calibration, ext...

The dohydra reduction task is specialized for scattered light subtraction, extraction, flat fielding, fiber throughput correction, wavelength calibration, and sky subtraction of Hydra and Nessie fiber spectra. It is a command language script which collects and combines the functions and parameters of many general purpose tasks to provide a single complete data reduction path. The task provides ...