BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has caused a therapeutic problem. VanA and VanB resistant types are the predominant phenotypes among vancomycin resistant enetrococci. Transposon 1546 (Tn1546) harboring the vanA gene cluster, plays an important role in the horizontal transfer of vanA gene. In this study, we examined the phenotypic and genotypic div...

Empirical studies indicate that analogy consists of two main processes: retrieval and mapping. While current theories and models of analogy have revealed much about the mainly structural constraints that govern the mapping process, the similarities that underpin the correspondences between individual representational elements and drive retrieval are understood in less detail. In existing models...

This paper presents a flexible method to enrich and populate an existing OWL ontology from XML data. Basic mapping rules are defined in order to specify the conversion rules on properties. Advanced mapping rules are defined on XML schemas and OWL XML schema elements in order to define rules for the population process. In addition, this flexible method allows users to reuse rules for other conve...

To access a unified way to different information sources while hiding the user autonomy, heterogeneity, distribution and evolution of these sources, the authors thought to integrate its different sources of information, one of the existing integration approaches is mediation or virtual approach. The integration in mediation approach is done with a schema, called schema mediation, and a set of m...

The mineral concentrations in cereals are important for human health, especially for individuals who consume a cereal subsistence diet. A number of elements, such as zinc, are required within the diet, while some elements are toxic to humans, for example arsenic. In this study we carry out genome-wide association (GWA) mapping of grain concentrations of arsenic, copper, molybdenum and zinc in b...

Model-based interface development environments typically involve the manipulation and the organization of multiple component models in order to develop one or many user interfaces corresponding to the models. In this context, the mapping problem poses the challenge of defining the elements of these models and to link them into an appropriate way that reflects design options. The task-dialog and...

Hydrothermal processes in the Earth’s crust can result in ore deposits characterized by high concentrations of metals with fractal or multifractal properties. This paper shows that stream sediments in the neighborhoods of ore deposits also can have singular properties for ore-mineral and associated toxic trace elements. We propose a new local singularity mapping method for assembling element co...

We give elementary applications of quasi-homomorphisms to growth problems in groups. A particular case concerns the number of torsion elements required to factorise a given element in the mapping class group of a surface.

Ontology mapping seeks to find semantic correspondences between similar elements of different ontologies. Ontology mapping is critical to achieve semantic interoperability in the WWW. Due to the fact that ubiquitous constraints (e.g., hierarchical restrictions in RDFS) caused by the characteristics of ontologies and their representations exist in ontologies, constraints satisfaction has become ...

Schema mappings are fundamental notions in data exchange and integration for relating source and target schemas. Visual mapping languages provide graphical means to visually describe such transformations. There is a plethora of tools and languages available however all use different notions and visualizations and are hardly extensible. In this paper we propose a new universal layer for schema m...