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concentrations of eight metals namely, cr, mn, fe, co, ni, cu, zn and pb were examined in the surface sediments of discharge channels of six industries in lagos using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.these channels drain into the isolo canal which empties into the lagos lagoon and eventually into the atlantic ocean. this study was conducted to detect any contamination levels within the sediment...

Distributed generation (DG) sources are becoming more prominent in distribution systems due to the incremental demands for electrical energy. Locations and capacities of DG sources have great impacts on the system losses in a distribution network. This paper presents a study aimed for optimally determining the size and location of distributed generation units in distribution systems with differ...

Maintaining coherence between the independent views of multiple participants at distributed locations is essential in an Embedded Simulation environment. Currently, the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol maintains coherence by broadcasting the entity state streams from each simulation station. In this dissertation, a novel alternative to DIS that replaces the transmitting sources...

The Internet provides dramatic new opportunities for gathering information from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous information sources. However, this distributed environment poses difficult technical problems for the information-seeking client, including finding the information sources relevant to an interest, formulating questions in the terms that the sources understand, interpreting the re...

The Neurobase project has for objective to establish the conditions allowing the federation through Internet of information sources in neuroimaging, where sources are distributed in different experimental sites, hospitals or research centers in cognitive neurosciences and contain data and image processing methods. This project consists in the definition of a computer architecture allowing the a...

Intelligent search for distributed information sources using heterogeneous neural networks Book Chapter How to cite: Yang, Hui and Zhang, Minjie (2003). Intelligent search for distributed information sources using heterogeneous neural networks. In: Zhou, Xiaofang; Zhang, Yanchun and Orlowska, Maria E. eds. Web Technologies and Applications, 5th Asian-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2003). Lecture...

As the semantic web expands, ontological data becomes distributed over a large network of data sources on the Web. Consequently, evaluating queries that aim to tap into this distributed semantic database necessitates the ability to consult multiple data sources efficiently. In this paper, we propose methods and heuristics to efficiently query distributed ontological data based on a series of pr...

AbstrAct: Users of distributed systems often detect performance problems of different types and sources which can sometimes be difficult to trace down to a specific cause due to the complex structure of distributed systems. However, determining the source of the performance problem is highly critical in finding an efficient solution. Managing data fragments on different nodes is one of the majo...