Several gastropod molluscs produce glues that are interesting because they are dilute gels and yet they produce strong adhesion. Specific glue proteins have been identified that play a central role in this adhesion, possibly by crosslinking other polymers in the gel. This study investigates the role of metals in the action of these glue proteins. Atomic absorption spectrometry showed that glue ...

The generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) framework has been widely used in hydrologic studies. However, the extensive random sampling causes a high computational burden that prohibits the efficient application of GLUE to costly distributed hydrologic models such as the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT). In this study, a multimodal optimization algorithm called isolatedspecia...

In this paper, we show how package templates, a new mechanism for code modularization, may be utilized to create reusable packages for selected design patterns that can be plugged into an existing architecture with a minimum of “glue code”. Exemplified through these implementations we consider some desirable extensions to the previously published version of the mechanism.

More and more software projects are using COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) components. One of the most challenging problems in COTS-based development is to evolve a system to follow changes in the customer requirements. It is therefore important to increase the changeability of the COTS-based system, so that new component can easily replace the problematic COTS components. Aspect-Oriented Progra...

Code pattern is proposed for component based software development (CBSD). A code pattern is used to capture the typical usages of a set of components as well as the interactions between them. Composition operations are defined to synthesize the glue code based on a repository of code patterns. Meta code patterns are patterns for components that share the same functionalities. In this paper, we ...

Metal ions are present in many different biological materials, and are capable of forming strong cross-links in aqueous environments. The relative contribution of different metal-based cross-links was measured in the defensive glue produced by the terrestrial slug Arion subfuscus. This glue contains calcium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, iron and copper. These metals are essential to the integrit...

The Glubran 2 cyanoacrylate glue is a liquid embolic agent used to block blood vessels endovascularly. Typically mixed with an iodized oil (Lipiodol) for visualization under X-ray, it polymerizes when in contact with blood and tissues owing to the presence of ions and proteins. The objective of the study is to determine the influence of plasma proteins in the polymerization reaction. A triggeri...

Domain-specific languages offer a variety of advantages, but their implementation techniques have disadvantages that sometimes prevent their use in practice. Language extension offers a potential solution to some of these problems, but remains essentially unused in practice. It is our contention that the main obstacle to adoption is the lack of any assurance that the compiler composed of multip...

The assembly of components that can handle continuously changing data results in programs that are more interactive. Unfortunately, the code that glues together such components is often difficult to write because it is exposed to many complicated event-handling details. This paper introduces the SuperGlue language where components are assembled by connecting their signals, which declaratively r...