UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Specific leaf area (SLA) is a critical component of the leaf economics spectrum, and many functional leaf traits have been empirically demonstrated to covary with SLA. However, a complete understanding of how change in leaf size influences SLA has not yet emerged. • METHODS To help develop a more complete understanding of the determinants of variability in S...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that there is no difference in the stability and resistance to rotational moments of early loaded sandblasted and acid-etched (SLA) mini-implants and those of machined-surface implants of the same size and shape. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized complete block design was used in 12 skeletally mature male beagle dogs. Ninety-six orthodontic mini-implants were...

The IT (Information Technology) areas demand trustworthy mechanisms to certify generated products quality and delivery to internal or external clients. Although the spread of improvement models related to software process like CMM, ISO15504, ISO-12205, IDEAL, in some cases a major commitment with results is desirable. At this way an approach to establish Service Level Agreements (SLA) can be us...

The major histocompatibility complex in swine (swine leucocyte antigen: SLA) is located on chromosome 7 with the class I and class III regions separated by the centromere from the class II region. The overall molecular organisation of the class I and III regions is well known, but further research is needed to establish that of the class II region. Approximately sixty genes have been characteri...

Effective SLAs are extremely important to assure business continuity, customer satisfaction and trust. The metrics used to measure and manage performance compliance to SLA commitments are the heart of a successful agreement and are a critical long term success factor. Lack of experience in the use and automation of performance metrics causes problems for many organizations as they attempt to fo...

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites by grid schedulers such as Resource brokers. In this work, we present a market-based SLA coordination mechanism. We based our SLA model on a well known contract net protocol. The key advantag...

The titanium implant surface was sandblasted with large grits and acid etched (SLA) to increase the implant surface for osseointegration. The topography of the titanium surface was investigated with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a profilometer. The SLA implant demonstrated uniform small micro pits (1-2 microm in diameter). The values of average roughness (R(a)) and maximum height (R(t)...

Grid technologies have reached a high level of development, however core shortcomings have been identified relating to security, trust, and dependability of the Grid which reduce its appeal to potential commercial adopters. Users require a job execution with a desired priority and quality. In order to stipulate such requirements, Service Level Agreements (SLA) can be negotiated. These are a pow...

in this paper, new features of satellite configuration, such as ip network  based infrastructure and separated signaling and media  are considered to propose a variety of satellite configurations in different orbits. because of their  different altitude in space such as low earth orbit(leo) and geostationary orbit (geo). a test bed used to test call setup delay in a one space link to process th...