Daffodil is a digital library system targeted at strategic support of advanced users during the information search process. It provides user-customizable “stratagems” for exploring and managing digital library objects with meta data annotations over a federation of heterogeneous digital libraries. Bingo! is a focused crawler that learns how to gather thematically relevant documents from the Web...

Daffodil is a digital library system targeting at strategic support during the information search process. For the user, mainly high-level search functions, so-called stratagems, implement this strategic support, which provide functionality beyond today’s digital libraries. Through the tight integration of stratagems and with the federation of heterogeneous digital libraries, Daffodil reaches a...

Spoken-word recognition in a nonnative language is particularly difficult where it depends on discrimination between confusable phonemes. Four experiments here examine whether this difficulty is in part due to phantom competition from "near-words" in speech. Dutch listeners confuse English /æ/ and /ε/, which could lead to the sequence daf being interpreted as deaf, or lemp being interpreted as ...

We have investigated the photophysics of aggregated lutein/violaxanthin in daffodil chromoplasts.

the effects of postharvest application of cobalt chloride were investigated on vase life of rose stood individually in vials and the other ones placing daffodil flowers in a vase with a rose flower.  therefore, roses were treated with: cocl 2 (100, 200, 300 mg l -1 , respectively) or distilled water (control). the results showed that the decreased vase life of rose flowers, after daffodil was p...

We used a PCR-based subtractive procedure to isolate genes that increased in abundance in the perianth of incipiently senescent daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus L. ‘Dutch Master’) flowers. Using RNA gel blot analysis we confirmed that 18 of the transcripts were senescence-associated. A number of these have homologs in previously-studied senescing floral and leaf tissue systems (cysteine prot...

This demo will present the logging facilities to capture the user context within the Daffodil framework during a live search in computer science data sources. We propose to use the Daffodil system as an experimental framework for the evaluation and research of interactive IR. The system already provides a rich set of working services and available information sources. These services and sources...

Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kühn) Filipjev is a serious pest of commercial daffodil (Narcissus sp.) in northern California. The control measures practiced by growers in recent years are postharvest treatment of planting bulbs for 3 hours in a 1% solution of formalin at 44 C combined with preplant soil fumigation with 1,3-dicbloropropene and (or) at-planting applications of phorate. In field trials, se...

The implications of the recent recommendations of the Law Commission regarding the use of admissibility tests have the potential to be far reaching for forensic disciplines that rely on the expertise of highly qualified expert witnesses. These disciplines will need a concomitant body of peer-reviewed experiments that provides a basis for the interpretations of such evidence presented in court. ...