Toluene and other aromatics have long been viewed as the dominant anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol (SOA) precursors, but the SOA mass yields from toluene reported in previous studies vary widely. Experiments conducted in the Carnegie Mellon University environmental chamber to study SOA formation from the photooxidation of toluene show significantly larger SOA production than parameteriza...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a system paradigm that structures business functions as loosely coupled services to enable business agility. SOA requires significant up-front investments, and in return, promises a vast array of benefits. Unfortunately, in contrast to the costs of the investment, monetary benefits associated with SOA are more difficult to measure. For one reason, benefits...

Despite the fact that the role of learning is recognised in empirical and theoretical work on sense of agency (SoA), the nature of this learning has, rather surprisingly, received little attention. In the present study we consider the contribution of associative mechanisms to SoA. SoA can be measured quantitatively as a temporal linkage between voluntary actions and their external effects. Usin...

We empirically analyze impact of SOA adoption on performance benefits of information sharing in supply chain using a cross sectional dataset of large US firms. We show that complexity and transparency of information sharing process significantly impact supply chain performance. Information sharing complexity has a negative effect while transparency has a positive effect. We also demonstrate tha...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are having a widespread use in enterprise computing applications, being Web services the most common implementation. The use of SOA has also been proposed for embedded systems, although very little could be found in the literature on the use of SOA for SafetyCritical Embedded Systems. This paper discusses the use of SOA for the development of this class of sy...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) changes the way of conducting business by opening their services to the larger business world over the networks. However, the “open” and “interoperable” properties of SOA make privacy a sensitive security issue. In SOA, service providers (SPs) limit permission of access to specific authorized Access Requestors (ARs). SPs need to verify ARs’ identity informati...

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles are generated by reacting d-limonene vapor and ozone in a Teflon reaction chamber. The reaction is carried out in either dry or humid air in darkness. The resulting SOA particles are collected on glass fiber filters, and their photochemical properties are probed using a combination of UV photodissociation action spectroscopy and absorption spectroscopy ...

Lately many researchers are focused on differences and similarities between Software Product Lines (SPL) and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). An interesting research topic is how to apply the SPL good practices to the SOA building. So the authors introduce the concept of Business Process Line (BPL) in order to transfer the SPL peculiarities first to the business processes and then to the S...

To obtain business benefits resulting from the implementation of an SOA approach is not sufficient managing technical features. A strategy aligned to business should be considered as a basis for activities of implementation, validation, development and services management. A business case, a reference model and an architecture of the organization should be established. This paper proposes SOA g...

Organic aerosols are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and play a central role in climate, air quality, and public health. The aerosol size distribution is key in determining its optical properties and cloud condensation nucleus activity. The dominant portion of organic aerosol is formed through gas-phase oxidation of volatile organic compounds, so-called secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). Typical e...