Advances in wide area networking is making the goal of achieving a worldwide interoperable database system closer than ever. Because of the large environment , new problems have surfaced that need to be addressed. We distinguish several reasons for a new design approach. Traditional approaches like global integration and federated approaches are better suited to small and medium scale heterogen...

Filtration of the drilling mud is one of it's most important parameters, especially when drilling-in producing formation. Decrease of filtration characteristics allows reducing both solid and liquid phases's penetration zone into the formation. The study of the effect of the weighting-bridging agent's fractional composition on the filtration rate allows selecting of optimal composition of the s...

The main goal of this study is to identify bridging reading strategy -a strategy that a reader uses to make a connection from the current sentence to previous sentences to help understanding the meaning of the text. For a specific target sentence, there are two types of bridging: local and distal. Benchmarks were created to help represent each type of bridging. The two immediate prior sentences...

This study investigates the determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as nonredundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight how firms can enter into these relationships because of the incentives and opportunities for action that are embedded in the existing network structure. Specifically, we propo...

This paper investigates the degradation in diagnosability of bridging faults caused by situations of active feedback and logically unresolvable intermediate values under different fault modeling assumptions. The experimental results show that active feedback may reduce the fault coverage by as much as 7% for stuck-at test sets and realistic bridging fault sets. A test generation method for full...

Health care includes supportive services such as laboratory, radiology and blood transfusion. To manage blood supply centres and hospital blood transfusion services, leadership development is paramount. In 2000, a post-academic Master course for Management of Transfusion Medicine (MMTM) was initiated, focused on restricted economy countries. E-learning has become a common approach in teaching a...

Possibility theory and modal logic are two knowledge representation frameworks that share some common features, such as the duality between possibility and necessity, as well as some obvious di↵erences since possibility theory is graded but is not primarily a logical setting. In the last thirty years there have been a series of attempts, reviewed in this paper, for bridging the two frameworks i...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of an unstable surface on trunk and lower extremity muscle activities during various types of bridging exercises. [Subjects] Thirty healthy female adults voluntarily participated in this study. [Methods] All subjects were asked to perform 3 different bridging exercises (bridging exercise, single leg lift bridging exercise, single ...

A number of redox-active coordination polymers (CPs) or metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) have been successfully synthesized using transition metals and bridging ligands. This article aims to deal with gathering the aforementioned disperse issues regarding the electroactive CPs. It also goes towards illustrating the effects of various factors on the electrochemical behavior of CPs including...

A new digital divide is emerging both within and between nations that is due to inequalities in broadband Internet access. We show using data from the OECD and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that this new digital divide is a global problem that can be observed in both developed and developing countries. To bridge the global broadband divide, organizations and individuals must c...