and availability requirements entails enormous costs. Many organizations have begun to consider implementing such systems using reusable component repositories, with the expectation that ♦ commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components or components designed for reuse can significantly lower development costs and shorten development cycles; and ♦ using them will ultimately lead to software systems ...

We examine computer games in order to develop concepts of the relative roles of knowledge and search. The paper concentra tes on the relat ion between knowledge appl ied at leaf nodes of a search and the depth of the search that is being conduc ted . Each knowledge of an advantage has a project ion abil ity (t ime to conver t to a more permanent advantage) associated with it. The best programs ...

T h e association of a n e m i a w i t h cancer has been repor ted for m a n y d i f ferent types of an imals . I t has been repea ted ly observed tha t the later stages of mal igr a n t g r o w t h s are charac te r ized by a severe a n d progressive depress ion in the b lood h e m o g l o b i n level. T h i s has been f o u n d to be t rue of m a n y d i f ferent types a nd [ocations of cance...

This paper motivates the use of Dynamic Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (DMFCC) feature and combination of DMFCC and MFCC features for robust language and text-independent speaker identification. MFCC feature, modeled on the human auditory system has been the widely used feature for speaker recognition because of its less vulnerability to noise perturbation and little session variability. Bu...

Blood-Brain Barrier Within Transplanted Brain Tissue? J. M. Rosenstein (1) reported the absence to suggest of a blood-brain barrier (BBB) to blooddiffer morpl borne tracer and endogenous proteins withdothelia. TI in fetal rat parietal cortex transplanted to the example, v fourth cerebral ventricle or cerebral cortex of bodies) ider adult rats. The author concluded that transendothelia a plants ...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph and u, v ~ V. Then, u strongly dominates v and v weakly dominates u if (i) uv ~ E and (ii) deg u >/deg v. A set D c V is a strong-dominating set (sd-set) of G if every vertex in V D is strongly dominated by at least one vertex in D. Similarly, a weak-dominating set (wd-set) is defined. The strong (weak) domination number 7s (7w) of G is the minimum cardinality of an sd...

Bread for all is the Swiss Protestant Churches' development agency. It supports 400 development projects and programmes in 57 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It also participates in development policy activities aimed at achieving more equitable international socioeconomic structures, protecting "Creation" and building peace. i I. Executive Summary Climate change affects poor peopl...