Aufgrund der hohen Inflation werden zurzeit viele Arbeitnehmer bei ihren Chefs mit Forderung nach einer Gehaltserhöhung vorstellig - teils sogar Konkurrenz-Angeboten. Wie sollten Arbeitgeber darauf reagieren

During 2000-2001, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Ocean Modeling and Prediction Division of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), constructed tidal gages at the East Pearl River at CSX Railroad near Claiborne, Mississippi, at the Rigolets at CSX Railroad near Rigolets, Louisiana, and at the Chef Menteur Pass at CSX Railroad at Chef Menteur, Louisiana, to co...

This paper gives a description of the portal user interface under development for the UK National Grid Service (NGS) by the Grid Technology Group at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The first release of the NGS Portal was based on CHEF, the CompreHensive collaborativE Framework originally developed at the University of Michigan. A set of Grid-related tools has been successfully deployed to provide t...

As the sector of SaaS is being evolved, the need of portability and effective orchestration of Cloud-enabled applications over virtualised infrastructures is more apparent. In this paper we present a proof-of-concept project which deals with the deployment and orchestration of Cloud applications through the 1st published version of the TOSCA specification. In our work we investigate the state o...

CHEF/18 is a diploid Chinese hamster cell line of embryonic origin, which is fibroblastic in structure, but behaves like a mesenchymal stem cell line in its ability to differentiate into adipocytes, myoblasts, and chondrocytes. With these cells, adipocyte formation has been divided experimentally into two stages: (i) determination of pre-adipocytes, which have lost the ability to form other cel...

When grown in the presence of serum with added insulin, Chinese hamster embryonic fibroblasts (CHEF/18) cells can be induced to become preadipocytes that are committed to the adipocyte pathway of terminal differentiation (Sager, R., and P. Kovac, 1982, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 79:480-484). We found that commitment to the adipocyte pathway, as well as terminal differentiation to form mature a...