Most high-availability (HA) solutions currently used are based on the pre-configuration done by human administrators. If the configuration between machines participating in the HA cluster can be automated, services clustered can be provided more efficiently. For realizing this concept, the server agent and service description server (SDS) are designed and implemented in this paper. The server a...

Grandparents constitute an important source of childcare to many parents. Focusing on the Belgian context, this paper improves our understanding decision-making by investigating how formal availability and grandparents affect arrangements. By means multinomial regression models we simultaneously model uptake informal Combining linked microdata from censuses with contextual data at level municip...

Transfusion of blood and its components/derivatives is a life saving medical intervention. However, this life saving procedure depends mainly on the availability of sufficient blood and its components in national health sector. Therefore the overall safety of transfusion medicines including the safety of blood and its available components and the appropriate use of these components would dir...

dianchi lake is one of the most three seriously eutrophic lakes in china. in the present study, the phosphorus (p) and nitrogen (n) fractions in 37 surface sediments samples collected in the dianchi lake were investigated. the total phophorus (tp) in sediments was divided into two parts: inorganic p (ip) and residual p (res-p). the results showed that the total phosphorus content in surface se...

since lean concept has appeared many works have been done on decreasing or even eliminating of wastes such as extra inventory. although these studies have not taken into account expected availability seriously. so in this paper, a multiple objective decision making (modm) model has been developed by viewpoint of these subjects. they are decreasing wastes and increasing system availability. wast...

By the time Machine Translation Summit X is held in September 2005, our group will have released an open-source machine translation toolbox as part of a large government-funded project involving four universities and three linguistic technology companies from Spain. The machine translation toolbox, which will most likely be released under a GPL-like license includes (a) the open-source engine i...

Data availability is one of the most important properties of peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems. Availability analysis model and data placement are two key design choices. Users in P2P storage system are both providers and customers. This characteristic determines that the availability analysis must be user-centric, and thereby enhance the quality of service and decrease the system cost. The po...

The homologue of Slimb (HOS) F-box protein is a receptor of the Skp1-Cullin1-F-box protein (SCF(HOS)) E3 ubiquitin ligase, which mediates ubiquitination and degradation of beta-catenin and the inhibitor of NFkappaB, IkappaB. We found that HOS itself is an unstable protein that undergoes ubiquitination and degradation in a 26 S proteasome-dependent manner. A HOS mutant lacking the F-box that is ...

Complexation of dietary phytate with cations is a major cause of reduced bioavailability of Zn and possibly Cu in pig diets. We conducted 2 studies with 2 treatments in young growing pigs (8 to 40 kg) to estimate potential contributions of phytase to availability and supply of Zn and Cu, respectively. Each treatment comprised 10 pens with 8 pigs each as experimental units. In Exp. 1, 500 phytas...