Bovine ocular infections compromise animal health and result in significant economic losses. Mycoplasma bovoculi is an etiological agent of conjunctivitis. Presented here is the 760,240-bp complete genome sequence of the M. bovoculi type strain M165/69(T). An analysis of the deduced proteome provides insights into the adherence and antigenic variation mechanisms of the strain.

Schema evolution is the process of applying changes to a schema in a consistent way and propagating these changes to the instances while the database is in operation. However, when a database is shared by many users, updates to the database schema are always difficult. To overcome this problem, in this paper we propose a version mechanism for schema evolution in ODMG databases that preserves ol...

Schema matching is the problem of finding relationships among concepts across heterogeneous data sources (heterogeneous in format and in structure). Starting from the “hidden meaning” associated to schema labels (i.e. class/attribute names) it is possible to discover relationships among the elements of different schemata. Lexical annotation (i.e. annotation w.r.t. a thesaurus/lexical resource) ...

Modern information systems may exploit numerous XML formats for communication. Each message may have its own XML format for data representation which causes problems with integration and evolution of their schemas. Manual integration and management of evolution of the XML formats may be very hard. We tackled this problem in our previous work, however, for simplicity reasons, we omitted the poss...

In the studies of dynamics of pathogens and their interactions with a host immune system, an important role is played by the structure of antigenic variants associated with a pathogen. Using the example of a model of antigenic variation in malaria, we show how many of the observed dynamical regimes can be explained in terms of the symmetry of interactions between different antigenic variants. T...

Punctuated antigenic change is believed to be a key element in the evolution of influenza A; clusters of antigenically similar strains predominate worldwide for several years until an antigenically distant mutant emerges and instigates a selective sweep. It is thought that a region of East-Southeast Asia with year-round transmission acts as a source of antigenic diversity for influenza A and se...

There exists a current trend in database technology to make databases more extensible and exible, or even to generate databases for speci c customer needs. So far, schema management and especially schema evolution have been excluded from this trend. In this paper, we propose a new approach to schema management and topics centered around it, like schema consistency and schema evolution. This app...

Parents experience stress that manifests itself as a negative reaction to the situation when demands of being parent exceed expectations oneself parent. Stress level in parents children with disabilities is significantly higher than standard families. Schema therapy an effective psychological intervention for managing this stress. The paper reviews foreign and Russian publications on schema spe...

Over the years, many XML schema matching systems have been developed. A benchmark for assessing the capabilities of schema matching systems and providing uniform conditions and the same testbed for all schema matching prototypes, has become indispensable as the matching systems grow in complexity. However, developing a benchmark for the schema matching problem is very challenging, given the wid...