Metallothioneins (MTs) are short, cysteine-rich proteins for heavy metal homeostasis and detoxification; they bind a variety of heavy metals and also act as radical scavengers. Transcription of mammalian MT genes is activated by heavy metal load via the metal-responsive transcription factor 1 (MTF-1), an essential zinc finger protein whose elimination in mice leads to embryonic lethality due to...

Drosophila melanogaster MTF-1 (dMTF-1) is a copper-responsive transcriptional activator that mediates resistance to Cu, as well as Zn and Cd. Here, we characterize a novel cysteine-rich domain which is crucial for sensing excess intracellular copper by dMTF-1. Transgenic flies expressing mutant dMTF-1 containing alanine substitutions of two, four or six cysteine residues within the sequence (54...

In the envisioned future Smart Grid, ICT will be incorporated into the power system at all domains in order to improve the operation and management. The incorporation of ICT must be systematic and incremental. One enabler of this is a well-designed and shared information model. IEC61970-301 Common Information Model (CIM) standard exists for the power system. However, it has some drawbacks that ...

The list update problem is studied in a distributed environment where the set of items is partitioned across two processors and in which the cost of accessing an item is a combination of a list searching cost and a communication cost. A natural generalization of the Move-To-Front (MTF) algorithm, called Distributed Move-To-Front (DMTF), is analyzed under two models of information available to t...

Distributed fault management and event notification are essential in Inter-AS Traffic Engineering (TE). In this paper we design and implement distributed fault management for WBEM based inter-AS TE. We designed DMTF Managed Object Format (MOF) based Managed Object (MO) for fault management. Using the Event Model in standard Common Information Model (CIM) in DMTF WBEM we implemented fault indica...

Software distribution is evolving from a physical media approach to one where it is practical and advantageous to leverage the connectivity of networks. Network distribution of software systems provides timeliness and continuity of evolution not possible with physical media distribution methods. To support network-based software distribution, companies and organizations such as Microsoft, Marim...

We describe new extensions to the Core, Application and System Schemas of the Common Information Model (CIM). While previous work on the CIM Application Schema mainly dealt with the distribution, deployment and installation aspects of software, a recent effort within the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is targeted at defining schema extensions capable of dealing with the full lifecycle...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to describe the oral health of elderly people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD). STUDY DESIGN Thirty elderly subjects with AD (mild, moderate, and severe) and 30 without AD (controls) were included in the study. Volunteer-reported oral health data were collected using the General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI). Demographic and oral charact...

The process and problems associated with translating a specific software engineering ontology into a different ontology language are described. The software engineering ontology is the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Common Information Model (CIM). The target ontology language is the W3C OWL DL language. The specific translations are described for various CIM constructs. Difficulties i...

qualifier Abstract: type(boolean = FALSE), alterable(FALSE), scope([object, optional]), descr("http://www.vandermeer.de/mama/doc/q/abstract.html"); This qualifier is derived from [DMTF-CIM]. It indicates that the object is abstract and serves only as base class. An instance of an abstract element cannot be created.