This paper describes an open-architecture system for the provision of e-services to home residents, consisting of healthcare, safety and security services. The proposed system exploits the open Internet standards and is based on the hub-and-spoke connection model between home users and service providers, through an intermediate entity called service aggregator. Health status of each residential...

IMPORTANCE Currently there are few validated metrics for predicting surgical skill among otolaryngology residency applicants. OBJECTIVE To determine whether manual dexterity aptitude testing in the form of soap carving during otolaryngology residency interviews at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Oakland predicts surgical skill at the time of graduation from otolaryngology residency programs....

Cloisite Na+was used as a solid surfactant (stabilizer) in Pickering emulsion polymerization of styrene-co-butyl acrylate in presence of oil soluble initiator, azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) and water soluble initiator, potassium persulfate (KPS). Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrum approved the corporation of Cloisite Na+ layers within the polymer matrix. Effect of clay content was a...

We evaluated the utility of electronic loggers to measure the effects of a simple intervention designed to influence the rates of hand washing with soap within enclosed toilets and bathrooms in low-income urban households in Kerala, India. 58 households were given three items with embedded electronic loggers for a period of 2-5 days. Two logged soaps tracked hand and body washing in the bathroo...

This paper presents our research on applying our dependability assessment method to an OGSA compliant middleware product. Our initial proof of concept experiment was implemented using a stateless Tomcat web server and Apache SOAP. This research adapts and enhances our existing fault injection software (OGSA-FIT) from the stateless environment of a standard web service to the stateful environmen...

The occurence of polygonal structures is widespread in nature 1]. Extensive investigations on the statistics of two-dimensional networks have been performed for biological tissues 2, 3], clusters of metal grains 4, 5], systems of soap bubbles 6, 7, 8], emulsion lattices 9], gas bubbles in Lang-muir monolayers 10], magnetic froth 11] or convective patterns in hydrody-namics 12, 13, 14]. The stro...

The most straightforward way to improve performance of any system is to define the bottlenecks and think of ways to remove them. Web services are the inseparable part of any web application, as a result enhancing performance of web services will have a great effect on the overall performance of the system. The most widely used communication protocol in the web services model, SOAP, is a simple ...

Food and cleaning products are the most basic living materials. Soap is a agent. The first known record of production soap, belong Sumerians in BC 2500 years. making has been developed survived to present day. olive laurel plants used construction natural soap. Olive daphne typical Mediterranean climate. among be tamed. plant grows naturally not cultured. soap today transferred literature prese...

Web Services offer a way for very different systems to collaborate independent of the the used programming language or the involved operating systems. Their basis is the XML-based SOAP protocol which can be used over any protocol which is able to transport a byte steam. Due to the fact that Web Services do not depend on any operating system and there is no burden of a underlying paradigm, they ...