We present the annotation architecture of the National Corpus of Polish and discuss problems identified in the TEI stand-off annotation system, which, in its current version, is still very much unfinished and untested, due to both technical reasons (lack of tools implementing the TEIdefined XPointer schemes) and certain problems concerning data representation. We concentrate on two features tha...

With the character of low maintenance, cloud computing provides an economical and efficient solution for sharing group resource among cloud users. Unfortunately, sharing data in a multi-owner manner while preserving data and identity privacy from an untrusted cloud is still a challenging issue, due to the frequent change of the membership. In this paper, we propose a secure multiowner data shar...

Background. Dogs are compelling models in which to study obesity since the condition shares many characteristics between humans and dogs. Differences in eating behaviour are recognised to contribute to obesity susceptibility in other species but this has not been systematically studied in dogs. Aim. To develop and validate an owner-reported measure of canine eating behaviour and owner or dog re...

The growing importance of networked workstations as a computing milieu has created a new modality of parallel computing, namely, the possibility of having one workstation \steal cycles" from another. In a typical episode of cycle-stealing, the owner of workstation B allows the owner of workstation A to take control of B's processor whenever it is idle, with the promise of relinquishing control ...

An important feature to which Arbanon families during the Middle Ages paid a special attention on occasion of marriage were dowries, gifts and various privileges, given not only by family members but also wider ring. In Ages, in lands, girl marriage, giving dowry was practiced, usually form real estate or money (perpera, exagia). The practiced noble as well other society strata. Certainly, val...