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Making the Difference in Semantic Web Service Composition

Automation of Web service composition is one of the most interesting challenges facing the Semantic Web today. In this paper we propose a mean of performing automated Web service composition by exploiting semantic matchmaking between Web service parameters (i.e., outputs and inputs) to enable their connection and interaction. The key idea is that the matchmaking enables, at run time, finding semantic compatibilities among independently defined Web service descriptions. To this end, our approach extends existing methods in order to explain misconnections between Web services. From this we generate Web service compositions that realize the goal, satisfying and optimizing the semantic connections between Web services. Moreover a process of relaxing the hard constraints is introduced in case the composition process failed. Our system is implemented and interacting with Web services dedicated on a Telecom scenario. The preliminary evaluation results showed high efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach.
PaDDMAS: parallel and distributed data mining application suite

Discovering complex associations, anomalies and patterns in distributed data sets is gaining popularity in a range of scientific, medical and business applications. Various algorithms are employed to perform data analysis within a domain, and range from statistical to machine learning and AI based techniques. Several issues need to be addressed however to scale such approaches to large data sets, particularly when these are applied to data distributed at various sites. As new analysis techniques are identified, the core tool set must enable easy integration of such analytical components. Similarly, results from an analysis engines must be sharable, to enable storage, visualisation or further analysis of results. We describe the architecture of PaDDMAS, a component based system for developing distributed data mining applications. PaDDMAS provides a tool set for combining pre-developed or custom components using a dataflow approach, with components performing analysis, data extraction or data management and translation. Each component is wrapped as a Java/CORBA object, and has an interface defined in XML. Components can be serial or parallel objects, and may be binary or contain a more complex internal structure. We demonstrate a prototype using a neural network analysis algorithm.
Improving the product development process of injection molded parts by utilization of additively manufactured molding tools

of master's thesis Author Johnny Boxström Title of thesis Improving the product development process of injection molded parts by utilization of additively manufactured molding tools Degree programme Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering Major/minor Machine Design/Mechatronics Code of professorship K3001 Thesis supervisor Professor Jouni Partanen Thesis advisor(s) Thomas Held, M.Sc. (Tech.) Date 14.8. 2017 Number of pages 89 Language English
Accommodative Behavior of Eyes Wearing Aspheric Single Vision Contact Lenses.

SIGNIFICANCE Wearing aspheric contact lenses adds significant amounts of negative spherical aberration (SA). Also, when accommodated and converged to near targets, pupil size shrinks and SA shift from positive to more negative direction. Interestingly, in this study, pupil miosis was fully or partially able to compensate for the additional accommodation-induced negative SA. PURPOSE The present study aims to examine the accommodative response characteristics of young eyes fit with aspheric single vision contact lenses (SVCLs) that add significant negative SA to the eye responding to a wide range of accommodation stimuli. METHODS Using a Shack-Hartmann aberrometer, the accommodation behavior in eight young adult eyes (mean age and spherical equivalent is 27.25 ± 2.05 years and -1.75 ± 1.80D, respectively) was measured while subjects fixated binocularly and monocularly 20/40 letter E, which were moved from 2 m to 20 cm (0.5 to 5D) in 0.25D steps. Using natural pupils, refractive state was defined using three standard criteria: the dioptric power that (1) minimized the root mean square error (minRMS), (2) best-fit paraxial, and (3) provided the peak image quality (peak IQ). RESULTS Wearing aspheric lenses with negative SA shifts the mean SA of the unaccommodated eyes from +0.05 μm (eyes only) to -0.029 μm (eyes + SVCL) and increases the negative SA for the eye + lens when accommodating from -0.029 to -0.07 μm for natural pupils. Aberration changes with accommodation were attenuated by the accommodative pupil miosis, which reduced binocular viewing pupil diameters from 3.9 to 3.3 mm. This alteration of the typical SA levels by the aspheric SVCL did not prevent accurate accommodation (mean ± standard deviation accommodative lag under binocular viewing were -0.08 ± 0.12D, -0.38 ± 0.12D, and -0.26 ± 0.08D for paraxial, minRMS, and peak IQ, respectively). CONCLUSIONS These data clearly show that aspheric contact lenses designed to correct some or all of the unaccommodated eye's positive SA do not interfere with accommodation.
THE EFFECT OF COLOUR OUTPUT OF INTENSIFYING DEVICES ON ACUITY IN PIGMENTARY RETINAL DEGENERATION

Abstract Developments in phosphor technology have resulted in the possibility of producing intensifying devices with a variety of output colours. The present pilot study investigates the effect of phosphor colour on acuity performance in subjects suffering from pigmentary degeneration of the retina. The results of this study combined with previous data on dark adaptation and colour are used to provide recommendations regarding the most suitable intensifier output colour for such subjects.
In the light of the metabolic memory theory, should not all aged people with dysglycemia be treated?

Dysglycemia has been coined to define the prediabetic state. It defines high glucose levels below the diabetes "cut-offs. " The negative effects of dysglycemia, leading to cardiovascular complications, are amplified during aging. Despite this knowledge, treatment of dysglycemia in old subjects is usually overlooked by clinical practice. This article deals with a new theory regarding an intensive therapeutic approach targeting aged people. This hypothesis arises from the recent theory of metabolic memory, which defines early imprinting due to hyperglycemia in cells of the vasculature and of target organs, favoring the development of vascular complications. In addition, metabolic memory determines a durable effect of hypoglycemic treatment that is much longer than the period of therapy. This new evidence could allow us to hypothesize that a treatment of dysglycemia in aged people could remodel their glucose "trajectory" during aging toward a more optimal one, leading to successful aging.
What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language

The chapter defines mimetic schemas as dynamic, concrete and preverbal representations, involving the body image, which are accessible to consciousness, and pre-reflectively shared in a community. Mimetic schemas derive from a uniquely human capacity for bodily mimesis (Donald 1991; Zlatev, Persson and Gardenfors 2005) and are argued to play a key role in language acquisition, language evolution and the linking of phenomenal experience and shared meaning. In this sense they are suggested to provide a "grounding" of language which is more adequate than that of image schemas. By comparing the two concepts along six different dimensions: representation, accessibility to consciousness, level of abstractness, dynamicity, sensory modality and (inter) subjectivity the term "image schema" is shown to be highly polysemous, which is problematic for a concept that purports to be foundational within Cognitive Linguistics. (Less)
Design of a Networked Monitoring System for Home Automation

This paper presents the design and implementation of a networked monitoring system for home automation. The proposed system architecture organizes the deployed sensor nodes to form a multihop mesh network in the home environment. Multiple communication interfaces are designed to enable local and remote user interactions through Internet or Bluetooth. This system offers a complete, flexible and reusable solution for various home monitoring and control applications.
Similarity Search for Scientific Workflows

With the increasing popularity of scientific workflows, public repositories are gaining importance as a means to share, find, and reuse such workflows. As the sizes of these repositories grow, methods to compare the scientific workflows stored in them become a necessity, for instance, to allow duplicate detection or similarity search. Scientific workflows are complex objects, and their comparison entails a number of distinct steps from comparing atomic elements to comparison of the workflows as a whole. Various studies have implemented methods for scientific workflow comparison and came up with often contradicting conclusions upon which algorithms work best. Comparing these results is cumbersome, as the original studies mixed different approaches for different steps and used different evaluation data and metrics. We contribute to the field (i) by disecting each previous approach into an explicitly defined and comparable set of subtasks, (ii) by comparing in isolation different approaches taken at each step of scientific workflow comparison, reporting on an number of unexpected findings, (iii) by investigating how these can best be combined into aggregated measures, and (iv) by making available a gold standard of over 2000 similarity ratings contributed by 15 workflow experts on a corpus of almost 1500 workflows and re-implementations of all methods we evaluated.
Looking Ahead to Select Tutorial Actions: A Decision-Theoretic Approach

We propose and evaluate a decision-theoretic approach for selecting tutorial actions by looking ahead to anticipate their effects on the student and other aspects of the tutorial state. The approach uses a dynamic decision network to consider the tutor's uncertain beliefs and objectives in adapting to and managing the changing tutorial state. Prototype action selection engines for diverse domains ? calculus and elementary reading ? illustrate the approach. These applications employ a rich model of the tutorial state, including attributes such as the studenti¾s knowledge, focus of attention, affective state, and next action(s), along with task progress and the discourse state. For this study, neither of our action selection engines had been integrated into a complete ITS, so we used simulated students to evaluate their capabilities to select rational tutorial actions that emulate the behaviors of human tutors. We also evaluated their capability to select tutorial actions quickly enough for real-world tutoring applications.
Series of Five Cases of Papulaspora equi Keratomycosis

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe a case series of Papulaspora equi keratomycosis, with clinical and laboratory characteristics of an organism that has not been reported from scrapings of corneal ulcers from humans. Methods: This is a retrospective chart review of 5 patients whose diagnostic corneal scrapings had grown P. equi on culture between 2008 and 2013. The clinical presentation, diagnostic tests, management, and the outcome of the ulcers are described. Results: All patients showed characteristic features of fungal corneal ulcers on clinical examination. Only 2 of the 5 patients reported having a history of injury to their eyes. One patient showed surface pigmentation that could mimic a dematiaceous ulcer. All the patients responded to topical antifungal treatment with 5% natamycin or prepared 2% ketoconazole drops. Conclusions: Corneal ulcers may be caused by rare organisms, as in our series of patients who had P. equi keratomycosis, a hitherto unreported human pathogen. All the patients responded to treatment with conventional topical antifungal medications.
Language-based Games

We introduce language-based games, a generalization of psychological games [6] that can also capture referencedependent preferences [7]. The idea is to extend the domain of the utility function to situations, maximal consistent sets in some language. The role of the underlying language in this framework is thus particularly critical. Of special interest are languages that can express only coarse beliefs [9]. Despite the expressive power of the approach, we show that it can describe games in a simple, natural way. Nash equilibrium and rationalizability are generalized to this setting; Nash equilibrium is shown not to exist in general, while the existence of rationalizable strategies is proved under mild conditions.
Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys: Foams and Microwires

Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys exhibit martensite transformation (MT) and mag- netic transition and thus may be actuated by thermal and magnetic fields. The work ing frequency of these alloys may be higher than conventional shape memory alloys, such as Ni-Ti, because the magnetic field may operate at higher frequency. This chap ter focuses on some fundamental topics of these multifunctional materials, including the composition-structure relationship, the synthesis of the foams and microwires, the martensite transformation and magnetic transition characters, the properties (magnetic- field-induced strain (MFIS), magnetocaloric effects (MCEs), shape memory effects, and superelastic effects), and applications. The improvement of the magnetic-field-induced strain due to the reduced constraint of twin boundary motion caused by grain boundar ies in polycrystalline Ni-Mn-Ga foams and the size effects of the superelasticity and mag - netocaloric properties in Ni-Mn-X (X = In, Sn, Sb) microwires are detailed and addressed.
Testing a system-on-a-chip with embedded microprocessor

In this paper, we describe the test methodology for embedded cores based system-on-a-chip (SoC) which contains a microprocessor core. First the microprocessor core is tested for correctness of all the instructions and then the computation power of the microprocessor core is used to test the on-chip memories and other cores, A small Iddq test set is also used to detect physical defects. The design features to facilitate Iddq testing are described.
Enzyme activities and microbial biomass in agricultural soils fumigated with methyl bromide alternatives

Pre-plant fumigation of agricultural soils with a combination of methyl bromide (MeBr) and chloropicrin (CP) to control nematodes, soil-borne pathogens and weeds has been a common practice in strawberry ( Fragaria X ananassa Duchesne) production since the 1960s. MeBr will be phased out by 2005, but little is known about the impacts of alternative fumigants on soil microbial processes. We investigated the response of microbial biomass and enzyme activities in soils fumigated over two years with MeBr + CP and the alternatives propargyl bromide (PrBr), InLine, Midas and CP. Results were compared to control soils, which were not fumigated for the last 4 to 5 years for Watsonville and Oxnard, respectively, but had a 10 year history of MeBr + CP fumigation (history soils). Soil samples (0-15cm) were taken from two sites in the coastal areas of California, USA, in Watsonville and Oxnard, at peak strawberry production after two years of repeated application. In addition to the soil enzymes, the activities of purified reference enzymes of β -glucosidase, acid phosphatase and arylsulfatase were assayed before and after fumigation with MeBr + CP and alternative biocides. At the Oxnard site, microbial respiration significantly decreased in soils fumigated with MeBr + CP ( P = 0.036), while microbial biomass C and N showed no response to fumigation at both sites. These results may indicate that fumigation promotes the growth of resistant species or that soil microorganisms had phosphatase, β -glucosidase and arylsulfatase, respectively. Mean enzyme protein concentrations in fumigated agricultural soils were 2.93, 0.105, and 2.95 mg protein kg -1 soil for acid phosphatase, β -glucosidase and arylsulfatase, respectively, all lower than in control soils. Organic matter turnover and nutrient cycling, and thus, the long-term productivity of agricultural soils seem unaffected in soils repeatedly fumigated with PrBr, InLine, Midas and CP. was no difference in microbial biomass and activities between the treatments studied, with the exception of lower acid phosphatase and arylsulfatase activities in fumigated soils. These results indicate that there are short- and long-term differences in the response of various microbial and enzymatic processes to MeBr + CP and alternative fumigants and thus, of the various functions of the soil biota in
DROPS: OS support for distributed multimedia applications

The characterising new requirement for distributed multimedia applications is the coexistence of dynamic real-time and non-real-time applications on hosts and networks. While some networks (e.g., ATM) in principle have the capability to reserve bandwidth on shared links, host systems usually do not. DROPS (Dresden Real-time OPerating System) is being built to remedy that situation by providing resource managers that allow the reservation of resources in advance and enforce that reservations. It allows the coexistence of timesharing applications (with no reservations) and real-time applications (with reservations). By outlining the principle architecture, some design decisions, and first results, the paper demonstrates how these objectives can be met using straightforward OS technology. It argues that middleware for diverse platforms cannot meet these objectives efficiently without proper core operating system support.
Exponentially Weighted Simultaneous Estimation of Several Quantiles

(cid:3) Abstract — In this paper we propose new method for simultaneous generating multiple quantiles corresponding to given probability levels from data streams and massive data sets. This method provides a basis for development of single-pass low-storage quantile estimation algorithms, which differ in complexity, storage requirement and accuracy. We demonstrate that such algorithms may perform well even for heavy-tailed data.
The Sarcomeric Z-Disc and Z-Discopathies

The sarcomeric Z-disc defines the lateral borders of the sarcomere and has primarily been seen as a structure important for mechanical stability. This view has changed dramatically within the last one or two decades. A multitude of novel Z-disc proteins and their interacting partners have been identified, which has led to the identification of additional functions and which have now been assigned to this structure. This includes its importance for intracellular signalling, for mechanosensation and mechanotransduction in particular, an emerging importance for protein turnover and autophagy, as well as its molecular links to the t-tubular system and the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Moreover, the discovery of mutations in a wide variety of Z-disc proteins, which lead to perturbations of several of the above-mentioned systems, gives rise to a diverse group of diseases which can be termed Z-discopathies. This paper provides a brief overview of these novel aspects as well as points to future research directions.
Neuronal Plasticity and Multisensory Integration in Filial Imprinting

Many organisms sample their environment through multiple sensory systems and the integration of multisensory information enhances learning. However, the mechanisms underlying multisensory memory formation and their similarity to unisensory mechanisms remain unclear. Filial imprinting is one example in which experience is multisensory, and the mechanisms of unisensory neuronal plasticity are well established. We investigated the storage of audiovisual information through experience by comparing the activity of neurons in the intermediate and medial mesopallium of imprinted and naïve domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) in response to an audiovisual imprinting stimulus and novel object and their auditory and visual components. We find that imprinting enhanced the mean response magnitude of neurons to unisensory but not multisensory stimuli. Furthermore, imprinting enhanced responses to incongruent audiovisual stimuli comprised of mismatched auditory and visual components. Our results suggest that the effects of imprinting on the unisensory and multisensory responsiveness of IMM neurons differ and that IMM neurons may function to detect unexpected deviations from the audiovisual imprinting stimulus.
Identification of Loci and Functional Characterization of Trichothecene Biosynthesis Genes in Filamentous Fungi of the Genus Trichoderma

ABSTRACT Trichothecenes are mycotoxins produced by Trichoderma, Fusarium, and at least four other genera in the fungal order Hypocreales. Fusarium has a trichothecene biosynthetic gene (TRI) cluster that encodes transport and regulatory proteins as well as most enzymes required for the formation of the mycotoxins. However, little is known about trichothecene biosynthesis in the other genera. Here, we identify and characterize TRI gene orthologues (tri) in Trichoderma arundinaceum and Trichoderma brevicompactum. Our results indicate that both Trichoderma species have a tri cluster that consists of orthologues of seven genes present in the Fusarium TRI cluster. Organization of genes in the cluster is the same in the two Trichoderma species but differs from the organization in Fusarium. Sequence and functional analysis revealed that the gene (tri5) responsible for the first committed step in trichothecene biosynthesis is located outside the cluster in both Trichoderma species rather than inside the cluster as it is in Fusarium. Heterologous expression analysis revealed that two T. arundinaceum cluster genes (tri4 and tri11) differ in function from their Fusarium orthologues. The Tatri4-encoded enzyme catalyzes only three of the four oxygenation reactions catalyzed by the orthologous enzyme in Fusarium. The Tatri11-encoded enzyme catalyzes a completely different reaction (trichothecene C-4 hydroxylation) than the Fusarium orthologue (trichothecene C-15 hydroxylation). The results of this study indicate that although some characteristics of the tri/TRI cluster have been conserved during evolution of Trichoderma and Fusarium, the cluster has undergone marked changes, including gene loss and/or gain, gene rearrangement, and divergence of gene function.
Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait

Training in action video games can increase the speed of perceptual processing. However, it is unknown whether video-game training can lead to broad-based changes in higher-level competencies such as cognitive flexibility, a core and neurally distributed component of cognition. To determine whether video gaming can enhance cognitive flexibility and, if so, why these changes occur, the current study compares two versions of a real-time strategy (RTS) game. Using a meta-analytic Bayes factor approach, we found that the gaming condition that emphasized maintenance and rapid switching between multiple information and action sources led to a large increase in cognitive flexibility as measured by a wide array of non-video gaming tasks. Theoretically, the results suggest that the distributed brain networks supporting cognitive flexibility can be tuned by engrossing video game experience that stresses maintenance and rapid manipulation of multiple information sources. Practically, these results suggest avenues for increasing cognitive function.
Bounded error parameter estimation: a sequential analytic center approach

In this paper, a sequential analytic-center approach for bounded error parameter estimation is proposed. The analytic center minimizes the "average" output error and allows an easy-to-compute sequential algorithm. With little computational effort two ellipsoids centered at the analytic center can be obtained as well: One inscribes and the other outscribes the so-called membership set. Finally, a sequential algorithm is presented along with its convergence proof. The complexity of this algorithm in terms of the maximum number of Newton iterations is shown to be linear in the number of observed data points.