In this paper, we study the important issue of verifying service-level agreement (SLA) with an untrusted cloud and present an SLA verification framework that utilizes a third-party auditor (TPA). A cloud provides users with elastic computing and storage resources in a pay-as-you-go way. An SLA between the cloud and a user is a contract that specifies the computing resources and performances tha...

The swine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) or swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) complex is one of the most gene-dense regions in the swine genome. It consists of three major gene clusters, the SLA class I, class III and class II regions, that span approximately 1.1, 0.7 and 0.5Mb, respectively, making the swine MHC the smallest among mammalian MHC so far examined and the only one known to spa...

The telecom market is evolving towards services. The arrival of next generation networks with a new generation of service and market deregulation have led to the emergence of many new service providers for whom Service Level Agreement (SLA) management is a key differentiator. Service provider differentiation will depend largely on the reliability of their SLA management and monitoring, and the ...

The possible influence of the pig major histocompatibility complex on reproductive traits is reviewed. Among the parameters investigated, significant associations were observed between SLA and genital tract development in males. Several SLA haplotypes affected either positively or negatively the development of testes, the epididymes and the Cowper's glands, whereas the influence of these haplot...

Scattered look-ahead (SLA) pipelining is a new IIR filter structure that can achieve very high throughput, regardless of multiplier latency. However, the numerical properties of SLA have been largely unexplored. In this paper we analyze the finite word-length (FWL) performance of SLA filters under fixed-point arithmetic. To support this analysis, two new state variable descriptions (SVD) are in...

A systematic nomenclature for the genes and alleles of the swine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is essential to the development and communication of research in swine immunology. The Swine Leukocyte Antigen (SLA) Nomenclature Committee of the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) has reviewed all of the DNA-sequence information for MHC class II genes, available in GenBank/EMB...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for supporting of SLA-aware Grid jobs, the SLA mapping module holds an important position and the capability of the mapping module depends on the runtime of the mapping algorithm. With the previously proposed mapping algorithms, the mapping module may develop into the b...

In the scope of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are used to specify the conditions that have to be fulfilled by both service provider and consumer. These stakeholders need checking whether the executions of the services fulfill the conditions or not, so the evaluation is an important and not trivial task within the testing process. This paper describes the ...

Prognostic evaluation is important for the management of patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). Although some autoantibodies have been associated with disease activity and outcomes, the implication of antibodies to soluble liver antigen (anti-SLA) remains controversial. To conduct a meta-analysis of observational studies which addressed differences in clinical characteristics by anti-SLA sta...