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Integrating cross-enterprise systems: an innovative framework for the introduction of enterprise application integration

Integration is a significant parameter that influences the success of ebusiness applications and supports organisations to achieve competitive advantage. Traditional approaches to interorganisational integration such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) have proved insufficient and complex. Recently, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) has emerged to address enterprise and cross enterprise integration in a more flexible and maintainable way. Application integration supports organisations to unify their applications and business processes by incorporating functionality from disparate applications. The introduction of EAI requires companies invest considerable sums of money on their IT infrastructure. Thus, there is an increasing need to support organisational decision-making for application integration adoption. However, normative literature is limited regarding EAI adoption and therefore there is a need for further research and contribution in this area. In addressing this relative in literature need, this paper, proposes a model for the adoption of application integration. The model suggests that various factors such as benefits, barriers, costs, external pressures and others influence the adoption of EAI. The proposed model is tested through a case study and it can be used by organisations when considering the adoption of EAI. It can also be used by researchers to better analyse and explain the adoption of application integration.
Fruit Fly Research and Development in PNG

Many cultivated and natural fruits play an important role both in food security and in meeting nutritional requirements in households throughout PNG. Fruit fly species of the family Tephritidae account for significant preharvest and postharvest food losses, and a reduction of these losses will improve food availability at household levels. The Papua New Guinea Fruit Fly Project (PNGFFP) has confirmed over 200 species of fruit fly. Species of economic importance are melon fly ( Bactrocera cucurbitae) , banana fruit fly ( B. musae ) mango fly ( B. frauenfeldi) , Asian papaya fruit fly ( B. papayae) , B. bryoniae , B. moluccensis , B. stringifinis , B. atrisetosa, B. decipiens, B. neohumeralis, B. trivialis and B. umbrosa . The destructive exotic species B. papayae was first sighted in the border provinces in 1992, has spread eastwards and is established on the mainland, the highlands and in Central Province. The host range, percentage losses and seasonal abundance have been determined for some of these important species. Fruit bagging and protein bait trails have achieved effective control, reducing damage from up to 98% to 0%.
Improvement of a TCP incast avoidance method using a fine-grained kernel timer

When a standard TCP implementation using the minimum retransmission timeout (RTOmin) of 200 ms is used in distributed file systems in data centers, a well-known throughput degradation called TCP Incast occurs, because 200 ms is too large as an RTOmin in data centers. In order to avoid TCP Incast, a TCP implementation using a much smaller RTOmin attained by a fine-grained kernel timer is proposed. However, throughput still decreases in the implementation when the number of servers in distributed file systems is large. In this paper, we propose an improvement method introducing a new TCP option which enables a client to request servers to retransmit packets in a better timing. Numerical examples obtained by extensive simulation runs show the effectiveness of the improved method.
High-Voltage Rotating Machines: A New Technique for Remote Partial Discharge Monitoring of the Stator Insulation Condition

In this article, a new technique is presented for the remote online partial discharge (OLPD) monitoring of the stator insulation condition of in-service, high-voltage (HV) rotating machines with a focus on the Ex/ATEX HV motors used in the petrochemical industry. The technique applies wideband, ferrite-based high-frequency current transformer (HFCT) sensors and high-resolution measurement technology. This remote PD monitoring technique has significant advantages when monitoring motors located in Ex/ATEX hazardous gas zones in oil and gas and petrochemical facilities.
An Efficient Forward Recovery Checkpointing Scheme in Dissimilar Redundancy Computer System

Roll-Forward Checkpointing Schemes (RFCS) [1,2, 3, 4] are developed in order to avoid rollback in the presence of independent faults and increase the possibility that a task completes within a tight deadline. But the assumption of RFCS does not exist in most time. Run the same software on the same hardware may result in correlated faults. Another question is these RFCS schemes may lose useful build-in self detection information results in performance degradation. In this paper, we propose a Twice Dissimilar Redundancy Computer based Roll-Forward Recovery scheme (TDCS) that can avoid the correlated faults and realize fault-tolerance, without extra process. At last we use a novel technique based on a Markov Reward Model , to reveal our TDCS performance is quite better than the RFCS in average completion time when build-in self detection coverage be high. KeywordsRoll-forward checkpointing schemes;TDCS; build-in self detection ;Markov Reward Model
Varustellut häkit munantuotannossa

Tiivistelmä Asetus kanojen pidolle asetettavista eläinsuojeluvaatimuksista (10/EEO/2000) kieltää varustelemattomien häkkien käytön munivien kanojen pitopaikkana vuoden 2012 alusta. Tämän jälkeen kanoja voidaan pitää joko lattiakanaloissa tai varustelluissa eli ns. virikehäkeissä. Varustelluissa häkeissä tilaa on enemmän kuin perinteisessä häkissä ja kanojen käytössä on munintapesä, pehkua ja orsia. Munantuotantoa ja kanojen hyvinvointia sekä käyttäytymistä varustelluissa häkeissä on tutkittu paljon mm. Ruotsissa ja Iso-Britanniassa. Kanojen ruokintaa ja ravinnontarvetta tässä uudessa tuotantoympäristössä sen sijaan on selvitetty varsin vähän. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää rehun valkuaispitoisuuden ja kanojen pitopaikan vaikutuksia munantuotantoon ja –laatuun. Kokeessa käytettiin 1088 LSL-kanaa, jotka sijoitettiin joko varusteltuihin tai perinteisiin varustelemattomiin häkkeihin. Koerehut suunniteltiin niin, että valkuais-energiasuhteeksi tuli joko 13 (rehun matala valkuaispitoisuus) tai 17 (rehun korkea valkuaispitoisuus). Koe alkoi kanojen ollessa 21 viikon ikäisiä ja kesti 52 viikon ajan. Häkkityypin ja rehun valkuaispitoisuuden välillä ei havaittu yhdysvaikutuksia tuotantotai rehunkulutustuloksissa. Varustelluissa häkeissä pidetyt kanat kuluttivat vähemmän rehua ja munivat vähemmän munia kuin perinteisissä häkeissä pidetyt kanat (P<0,05). Rehumuuntosuhteessa ei häkkityyppien välillä ollut tilastollisesti merkitsevää eroa. Varustelluissa häkeissä pidettyjen kanojen munissa oli heikommat kuoret kuin perinteisissä häkeissä pidettyjen kanojen munissa 35 ja 54 viikon iässä tehdyissä munankuoren murtolujuusmittauksissa (P<0,05). Viimeisessä mittauksessa ei häkkityyppien välillä havaittu eroja. Samansuuntaiset tulokset saatiin munien ominaispainomittauksissa, joissa perinteisissä häkeissä pidettyjen kanojen munien ominaispainot olivat suuremmat kuin varustelluissa häkeissä pidettyjen kanojen munien ominaispainot (P<0,01). Ensimmäisen ruokintavaiheen aikana (21–41 viikon iässä) matalan valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneet kanat kuluttivat enemmän rehua kuin korkean valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneet kanat (P<0,05). Matalan valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneet kanat munivat keskimäärin pienempiä munia kuin korkean valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneet kanat (P<0,001). Rehun valkuaispitoisuus ei vaikuttanut munintaprosenttiin. Rehun korkea valkuaispitoisuus heikensi munanvalkuaisen laatua verrattuna matalan valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneiden kanojen muniin (P<0,05). Kokeen tulosten perusteella rehun valkuaispitoisuuden vaikutukset ovat samanlaiset varustelluissa kuin perinteisissä häkeissä. Varustelluissa häkeissä havaittu alhaisempi munintaprosentti saattaa johtua pienemmästä rehunkulutuksesta ja energian saannista. Matalan valkuaispitoisuuden rehua saaneiden kanojen munanpainoa ja rehumuuntosuhdetta rajoittavana tekijänä oli todennäköisesti liian alhainen päivittäinen lysiinin saanti.
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Guidelines on the irritable bowel syndrome: mechanisms and practical management

Background: IBS affects 5–11% of the population of most countries. Prevalence peaks in the third and fourth decades, with a female predominance. Aim: To provide a guide for the assessment and management of adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Methods: Members of the Clinical Services Committee of The British Society of Gastroenterology were allocated particular areas to produce review documents. Literature searching included systematic searches using electronic databases such as Pubmed, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases and extensive personal reference databases. Results: Patients can usefully be classified by predominant bowel habit. Few investigations are needed except when diarrhoea is a prominent feature. Alarm features may warrant further investigation. Adverse psychological features and somatisation are often present. Ascertaining the patients’ concerns and explaining symptoms in simple terms improves outcome. IBS is a heterogeneous condition with a range of treatments, each of which benefits a small proportion of patients. Treatment of associated anxiety and depression often improves bowel and other symptoms. Randomised placebo controlled trials show benefit as follows: cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic interpersonal therapy improve coping; hypnotherapy benefits global symptoms in otherwise refractory patients; antispasmodics and tricyclic antidepressants improve pain; ispaghula improves pain and bowel habit; 5-HT3 antagonists improve global symptoms, diarrhoea, and pain but may rarely cause unexplained colitis; 5-HT4 agonists improve global symptoms, constipation, and bloating; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors improve global symptoms. Conclusions: Better ways of identifying which patients will respond to specific treatments are urgently needed.
Real-Time Geo-awareness – Sensor Data Integration for Environmental Monitoring in the City

Environmental monitoring faces a variety of complex technical and socio-political challenges, particularly in the urban context. Data sources may be available, but mostly not combinable because of lacking interoperability and deficient coordination due to monolithic and closed data infrastructures. In this work we present the real-time geo-awareness approach that seeks to tackle these challenges with an open sensing infrastructure for monitoring applications. Our system makes extensive use of open (geospatial) standards throughout the entire process chain – from sensor data integration to analysis, and finally visualisation. Then, we show how the methodology can influence the city and its inhabitants by 'making the abstract real', in other words how pervasive environmental monitoring systems change urban social interactions, and which issues are related to establishing such systems.
A Variational inference method for Switching Linear Dynamic Systems

This paper aims to present a structured variational inference algorithm for switching linear dynamical systems (SLDSs) which was initially introduced by Pavlovic and Rehg [14]. Starting with the need for the variational approach, we proceed to the derivation of the generic (model-independent) variational update formulas which are obtained under the mean field assumption. This leads us to the derivation of an approximate variational inference algorithm for an SLDS. The details of deriving the SLDS-specific variational update equations are presented.
Proteomic and functional characterisation of platelet microparticle size classes

Summary Activated platelets release large lipid-protein complexes termed microparticles. These platelet microparticles (PMP) are composed of vesicular fragments of the plasma membrane and α-granules. PMP facilitate coagulation, promote platelet and leukocyte adhesion to the subendothelial matrix, support angiogenesis and stimulate vascular smooth muscle proliferation. Objectives: PMP were separated into 4 size classes to facilitate identification of active protein and lipid components. PMP were obtained from activated human platelets and separated into 4 size classes by gel filtration chromatography. Proteins were identified using 2-dimensional, liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Functional effects on platelets were determined using the PFA-100→ and on endothelial cells by measuring transendothelial cell electrical resistance. PMP size classes differed significantly in their contents of plasma membrane receptors and adhesion molecules, chemokines, growth factors and protease inhibitors. The two smallest size classes (3 and 4) inhibited collagen/adenosine-diphosphate-mediated platelet thrombus formation, while fractions 2 and 4 stimulated barrier formation by endothelial cells. Heat denaturation blocked the effect of fraction 4 on endothelial cell function, but not fraction 2 implying that the active component in fraction 4 is a protein and in fraction 2 is a heat-stable protein or lipid but not sphingosine-1-phosphate. Proteomic and functional analysis of PMP size fractions has shown that PMP can be separated into different size classes that differ in protein components, protein/lipid ratio, and functional effects on platelets and endothelial cells. This analysis will facilitate identification of active components in the PMP and clarify their involvement in diseases such as atherosclerosis and cancer.
Effect of supplementary zinc on orthodontic tooth movement in a rat model

ABSTRACT Introduction: Osteoclasts and osteoblasts are responsible for regulating bone homeostasis during which the trace element zinc has been shown to exert a cumulative effect on bone mass by stimulating osteoblastic bone formation and inhibiting osteoclastic bone resorption. Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of zinc (Zn) on orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) in a rat model. Material and Methods: A total of 44 male Wistar rats were divided into four groups of 11 animals each and received 0, 1.5, 20 and 50 ppm Zn in distilled water for 60 days. In the last 21 days of the study, nickel-titanium closed coil springs were ligated between maxillary right incisors and first molars of all rats, and tooth movement was measured at the end of this period. Histological analysis of hematoxylin/eosin slides was performed to assess root resorption lacunae, osteoclast number and periodontal ligament (PDL) width. Results: Mean OTM was calculated as 51.8, 49.1, 35.5 and 45 µm in the 0, 1.5, 20 and 50 ppm zinc-receiving groups, respectively. There were no significant differences in neither OTM nor histological parameters among the study groups (p > 0.05). Conclusion: According to the results obtained in the current investigation, increase in supplementary zinc up to 50 ppm does not affect the rate of OTM neither bone and root resorption in rats.
TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR CONSTRUCTION SIMULATION

Discrete event simulation (DES) has been used in academia to solve complex construction management problems for decades. However, it has not gained widespread adoption within the industry. A considerable effort to increase the acceptance of DES in construction has been carried out. However, it has been heavily focused on implementing DES models, neglecting both a detailed conceptualization of the real system and an understanding of stakeholders’ requirements. Conceptual modeling (CM) is a fundamental step in DES which helps build stakeholders’ trust in the resulting model. We argue, then, that it is vital to develop a CM framework for the construction domain to improve the acceptance of DES in the industry. We propose a domain-specific CM framework for construction application. This framework will be formulated to suit the complex environment of construction projects.
Production of DNA vaccine coding for MCE 4 A gene of Mycobacterium bovis 2

One of the major aims to overcome tuberculosis infection is developing a vaccine that could prevent mycobacterial cells from entering macrophages and hence will be subjected to the immune defense mechanisms. MCE4A protein antigen is one of the secretory antigens that enables Mycobacteria to enter macrophages thus neutralization of such antigen will aid in the restriction of disease development. In the current study the 1200bp full length MCE4A gene was amplified and cloned in gateway entry cloning vector ( pEnter\SD\topo), then homologous recombination with the destination vector ( pDEST 40) was done in order to develop the DNA vaccine. Vaccination of guinea pigs with this DNA vaccine and subsequent challenging with M. bovis revealed comparable results with that of BCG showing that the vaccine could be promising approach to be tested on the cattle. [El-Shazly, M.A. Soliman, Y.A. ; Mahmoud, A.A. ; Khadr, A.M; Elshemey, T.M. ; Abd-Elrahman, A.H. and Nasr, E.A. Production of DNA vaccine coding for MCE4A gene of Mycobacterium bovis. Life Sci J 2014;11(8):867874]. (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 129
Facial expression recognition based on local directional number pattern and ANFIS classifier

In this work, an efficient algorithm for facial expression recognition using a local feature descriptor, Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Local Directional Number Pattern (LDN) and Soft Computing Technique, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) is presented. In the first experiment local binary pattern is computed using the input image.In the second experiment, the face image is subjected to a Kirsch compass mask that gives the directional information of the image and with the help of masked output Local Directional Number Pattern (LDN) code is computed. The obtained LBP and LDN image is divided into several regions and the distribution of the LBP and LDN features are extracted from them. These features are then concatenated into a feature vector, which is used for ANFIS training and classification. The experimental evaluation of the presented method is carried out using Japanese Female Facial Expression Database (JAFFE) and Indian Face Database (IFD). The results obtained from the experiments prove that the presented method successfully recognize the facial expression variations.
How to study cognitive decision algorithms: The case of the priority heuristic

Although the priority heuristic (PH) is conceived as a cognitive-process model, some of its critical process assumptions remain to be tested. The PH makes very strong ordinal and quantitative assumptions about the strictly sequential, non-compensatory use of three cues in choices between lotteries: (1) the difference between worst outcomes, (2) the difference in worst-case probabilities, and (3) the best outcome that can be obtained. These aspects were manipulated orthogonally in the present experiment. No support was found for the PH. Although the main effect of the primary worst-outcome manipulation was significant, it came along with other effects that the PH excludes. A strong effect of the secondary manipulation of worst-outcome probabilities was not confined to small differences in worst-outcomes; it was actually stronger for large worst-outcome differences. Overall winning probabilities that the PH ignores exerted a systematic influence. The overall rate of choices correctly predicted by the PH was close to chance, although high inter-judge agreement reflected systematic responding. These findings raise fundamental questions about the theoretical status of heuristics as fixed modules.
Brands: the Opiate of the Non-Religious Masses?

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Dissipative formulation of initial boundary value problems for Friedrichs’ systems

ABSTRACT In this article we present a dissipative definition of a solution for initial boundary value problems for Friedrichs’ systems posed in the space . We study the information contained in this definition and prove an existence and uniqueness theorem in the non-characteristic case and with constant coefficients. Finally, we compare our choice of boundary condition to previous works, especially on the wave equation and show how to model additional constrained problems in view of initial boundary value problems for viscoplastic equations.