BACKGROUND: The aboriginal tribes of India constitute an important segment of the society in the world. Though a large number of genetic studies have been carried out in India, the genetic data of the populations in the state of Orissa are very limited, especially per taining to the indigenous tribal people. Most of the earlier studies were restricted to either a single tribe or a few genetic m...

In-home nomadic user interfaces are expected to enhance the quality of domestic life. They will increase mobility as users will be able to move freely within the home, maintaining the technology-mediated activity regardless of devices’ user interface attributes, and enhance the interaction in terms of efficiency, experience, and sociability, as users will be able to move applications to other, ...

17 18 The prevalence of mycobacterial infection among lactating Fulani cows was investigated in 19 the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Kaduna State of Nigeria. Tuberculin testing 20 using single comparative intradermal tuberculin test (SCITT) showed a 14.6% positive, 4% 21 doubtful and 81.4% negative reactors. Mycobacterial infection was found to be present in the 22 nomadic (constan...

Nomadic computing is a phenomenon in computing and communications that is spreading rapidly. At this stage of its technology, the key problems and the basic understanding of its underlying principles are only beginning to be identified. Analysis and design tools are needed to assist in its development. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the tools and what one might look for in the way of a...

In the increasingly wireless world of data communications; laptops, palmtops and other nomadic computers are appearing that have built-in, wireless access (e.g. cellular, radio, infrared, satellite access) to one or more wireless networks around them. Applications executing on these nomadic computers need to be able to locate services and enter into one or more service-level agreements with ser...

Recent advances in the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) have enabled a new approach to supporting mobile users: location independent naming. In this approach, machines use the same hostname from any internet location, but use an IP address that corresponds to their current location. We describe a protocol that implements location independent naming for...