We have introduced an idea called World Wide Meet (WWM) to support horizontal interaction ability for the netizens who are surfing on the webs [4]. With WWM support, users browsing the same web page can be notified automatically when anyone joins or leaves the page. Each page of a web is just like a virtual room and the netizens in the same room can interact with each other. In this paper we pr...

Application users are becoming more mobile, expecting instant connectivity using a diverse range of heterogeneous devices. Despite the supposed ‘write once run anywhere’ promise of languages such as Java, developers must contend with a variety of API’s such as J2EE, J2SE and J2ME. Application and Internet service providers are faced with increasing costs as developers look to thin client soluti...

M. PLUM Mathematisches Institut I, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [Received on 10 December 2002; revised on 12 January 2004] It is well known that routine methods of computing the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator often lead to spurious eigenvalues in a gap between two parts of the essential spectrum. We provide a geometrical explanation for a numerical me...

The potential of using compact discs as high throughput screening platforms for DNA microarraying is discussed and applied to discriminate genetic variations of Plum pox virus.

The composition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted with aqueous phenol from a virulent English plum isolate of Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum varied according to the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) in the culture medium at the time of harvest. When pO2 was low, the organism grew slowly and produced smooth LPS bearing rhamnan sidechains. As pO2 was raised, the rate of growth increased...