A recent trend in the German Asset Backed Securities (ABS) market is the securitisation of subordinated loans and profit participation agreements (PPAs) granted to medium-sized enterprises (MEs). This paper provides an overview of this growing market and analyses the benefits of such transactions for the portfolio companies as well as originators and potential investors. Simulations of ten rece...

We consider peer-to-peer and distributed networks where a large number of objects (such as users, information and applications) are distributed and dynamically move. In such a distributed network environment, the ability to discover objects that match given query criteria such as a set of keywords is highly desirable. In this paper, we propose a discovery mechanism that is scalable, adaptable a...

Inactivating mutations in the Staphylococcus aureus virulence regulator agr are associated with worse outcomes in bacteremic patients. However, whether agr dysfunction is primarily a cause or a consequence of early bacteremia is unknown. Analysis of 158 paired S. aureus clones from blood and nasal carriage sites in individual patients revealed that recovery of an agr-defective mutant from blood...

Prediction, diagnosis, recovery and recurrence of the breast cancer among the patients are always one of the most important challenges for explorers and scientists. Nowadays by using of the bioinformatics sciences, these challenges can be eliminated by using of the previous information of patients records. In this paper has been used adaptive nero fuzzy inference system and data mining techniqu...

"Intraprofessional Team BUilding" in the September 1987 issue (pp. 576582) was a pertinent and stimulating article ro me. Our Psychosocial Occupational Therapy Department at Christ Hospital and Medical Center consists of seven occu pational therapists (OTRs) and nine occupational therapy assistants (COTAs) who work together on occupational therapy teams. A typical team includes one therapist as...

With the growing complexity of data acquisition and processing methods, there is an increasing demand in understanding which data is outdated and how to have it as fresh as possible. Staleness is one of the key, time-related, data quality characteristics, that represents a degree of synchronization between data originators and information systems possessing the data. However, nowadays there is ...