Do we ever really stop to think about what our birthday means? A birthday is a celebration created especially for us. It can be a once-a-year reflection on the true celebrations in our lives: our accomplishments, the hurdles we have conquered, and the tears we have cried. A birthday can be a chance to spend time with those who feel blessed because we were born; the people we choose to stand bes...

Pollen analyses of sediments from Holes 1019C, 1019E, 1020C, and 1020D as well as piston Core EW9504-17 provide continuous, chronostratigraphically controlled proxy vegetation and climate data for coastal northwest North America for the last ~500 k.y. Systematic changes in the representation of the diagnostic components of northern California plant assemblages clearly show orbital-scale variati...

Traditional database Systems provide efficient transaction oriented processing of structured data. However, usually, processing of textual data in a database system has either no or only limited support. For example, while it may be possible to build index structures over textual data, in practice, the resulting bottlenecks make this impracticable. The reason for these bottlenecks are pseudo co...

Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware came of age in 1993., -they surpassed the online transaction processing performance of proprietary solutions. There are lingering doubts about downsizing batch transaction processing applications. The doubts center on the ability of micro...

16 AT A BLACK TIE PARTY at the Four Season’s in Manhattan last November 2005, the literary, social and business elite of New York gathered to mark the annual Kenyon Review award for literary distinction. The propinquity of New York wealth and philanthropy, with the glitterati of the publishing and literary world made for a special frisson. The atmosphere was further excited by the presence of M...

The season of the Nobel awards and the ensuing ceremonials is upon us. As the current laureates prepare to graciously stand in line before the crowned heads of Sweden and Norway, it’s an appropriate moment to reflect on what the prize has come to mean, and whether it still serves a useful purpose in today’s world. Although the Nobel Prizes are held in high esteem by the general public the world...

s 1945, 39, 2991(5). Figure 7. Carl Djerassi, learning how to drive a tractor in Tarkio, Missouri, 1941. Photo courtesy C. Djerassi. . Angewandte And Finally 3014 www.angewandte.org 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3012 – 3023 “And then, as I just had thrown it in there, and it fumed furiously and red fumes of who knows what, nitrous oxide of vario...

This fourth quarter of the year is the annual Nobel Prize season. The prize winners will be announced in the second week of October, and the prizes will be awarded on 10 December at a royal banquet in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden (except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is handed out in Oslo, Norway). These prizes are considered the gold standard of human achievement, and engineers have lon...

Northern leaf blight (NLB), caused by Exserohilum turcicum (Pass.) K. J. Leonard & E. G. Suggs), is a prevalent disease of sweet corn (Zea mays L.) in the United States. Fungicides are used routinely to prevent severe epidemics of NLB on nearly 20,000 ha of supersweet (sh2) hybrids grown each spring in southern and central Florida. Epidemics of NLB on sweet corn grown in the midwestern United S...

In [1] wurden von pro et con bereits erste Ansätze der Migration von COBOL nach Java dargestellt. Nach dem erfolgreichen Abschluss des Projektes SOAMIG1 sollen in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse im Bereich der COBOLMigration vorgestellt werden. Neben einem Überblick über das entstandene Werkzeug CoJaC (COBOL to Java Converter) sollen dabei die Migration der Schnittstellen eines COBOL-Programms un...