We present a new code generator, called O’Jacaré.net, to inter-operate between C# and Objective Caml through their object models. O’Jacaré.net defines a basic IDL (Interface Definition Language) that describes classes and interfaces in order to communicate between Objective Caml and C#. O’Jacaré.net generates all needed wrapper classes and takes advantage of static type checking in both worlds....

Mutations in the apolipoprotein (apo) B, E (LDL) receptor gene and in the apolipoprotein B-100 gene are the cause of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and of familial defective apo B-100 (FDB), respectively. Whether these abnormalities lead to altered production or uptake of very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) or intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL) has not been established previously. There...

In financial markets, participants locally optimize their profit which can result in a globally unstable state leading to a catastrophic change. The largest crash in the past decades is the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers which was followed by a trust-based crisis between banks due to high-risk trading in complex products. We introduce information dissipation length (IDL) as a leading indicator o...

We describe a new method, useful to clinical laboratories, for assessing intermediate density (IDL) or beta-very-low-density (beta-VLDL) lipoprotein cholesterol. The technique involves selective precipitation properties of the qualitative Wieland and Seidel post-electrophoretic method that immobilizes IDL and beta-VLDL in the beta-zone of an agarose slide (Clin Chem 1973;19:1139-41). In our met...

We present a new code generator, called O’Jacaré.net, to inter-operate between C# and Objective Caml through their object models. O’Jacaré.net defines a basic IDL (Interface Definition Language) that describes classes and interfaces in order to communicate between Objective Caml and C#. O’Jacaré.net generates all needed wrapper classes and takes advantage of static type checking in both worlds....

Insertion/deletion (IDL) mismatches in DNA are lesions consisting of extra bases on one strand. Here, the binding of p53 and its 14 kDa C-terminal domain to DNAs containing one or three 3-cytosine IDL mismatches was examined. Electron microscopy showed that both p53 forms bound predominantly as tetramers at the lesions while single-stranded binding proteins did not bind. Gel retardation assays ...

The Interface Description Language (IDL) is a notation for describing the characteristics of data structures passed among collections of cooperating processes in a programming environment. In this paper we discuss a mapping from IDL to C data structures and macro definitions that supports the full language and is type safe and runtime efficient, but is not particularly compile-time efficient no...

Most distributed applications require mechanisms for the synchronization of cooperating components. In a CORBA application this functionality is currently hidden in the methods of the server objects. This complicates design, validation and maintenance of distributed applications. To improve this situation we propose guards and concurrency annotations for the CORBA IDL. Our approach allows the e...

NeXus is a joint effort of both the synchrotron and neutron scattering community to develop a common data exchange format based on HDF. In order to simplify access to NeXus files a NeXus-API is provided. This NeXus-API has been restructured and expanded to cover both HDF versions 4 and 5. Only small changes to the API were necessary in order to accomplish this. A foundation was laid to extend t...