Recent research has shown that secondary organic aerosols (SOA) are major contributors to ultrafine particle growth to climatically relevant sizes, increasing global cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations within the continental boundary layer (BL). However, there are three recent developments regarding the condensation of SOA that lead to uncertainties in the contribution of SOA to part...

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are an important software development approach for many service-oriented architectures (SOAs). They promise to model the various SOA concerns in a suitable way for the various technical and non-technical stakeholders of a SOA. However, so far the research on SOA DSLs concentrates on novel technical contributions, and not much evidence or counter-evidence for the...

Service oriented computing is a new software engineering paradigm that represents a shift in software engineering and raises the abstraction level by grouping common business process functionality and exposing it as a service. SOA allows a rapid and low-cost application development through service composition. Existing widely used methodologies designed to support objectoriented development suc...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become a widespread architecture and integration means in companies, due to increased use and maturing of standards, technologies, tools and platforms. Platforms are certainly more mature than some other non-technical aspects of SOA. Adoption of SOA principles in system design results in certain benefits. In order to achieve balance between long-term goal...

Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) forms a major fraction of organic aerosols in the atmosphere. Knowledge of SOA properties that affect their dynamics in the atmosphere is needed for improving climate models. By combining experimental and modeling techniques, we investigated the factors controlling SOA evaporation under different humidity conditions. Our experiments support the conclusion of par...

The organic fraction of secondary particles, commonly known as secondary organic aerosols (SOA), constitutes a significant part of fine aerosols. The formation of SOA is subject to complicated coupling among gas-phase chemical reactions, aqueous -phase, aerosol-phase, and meteorological processes. To correctly predict total particle concentrations in the atmosphere it is necessary to understand...

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) constitutes a major fraction of submicrometer atmospheric particulate matter. Quantitative simulation of SOA within air-quality and climate models--and its resulting impacts--depends on the translation of SOA formation observed in laboratory chambers into robust parameterizations. Worldwide data have been accumulating indicating that model predictions of SOA are ...

In today’s increasingly competitive and technology-driven business environment, ability to quickly adapt its business processes in response to both internal and external changes is a must for any organization. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), along with its programming models, is one strategic option to accomplish this. SOA enables an organization’s business to drive its information systems...

Business intelligence (BI) architecture based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept enables enterprises to deploy agile and reliable BI applications. However, the key factors for implementing a SOA-based BI architecture from technical perspectives have not yet been systematically investigated. Most of the prior studies focus on organisational and managerial perspectives rather than tec...

The concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has had a significant impact not only on software engineering but on the analysis of an organization’s business layer as well. It contributes to developing information systems that are compatible with the needs of agile organizations. This fact brings us to investigate the new approach of Business-IT Alignment (BITA) by utilizing SOA features. ...