IBEX will build an image of the outer boundary of the solar system from impacts on the spacecraft by high-speed particles called energetic neutral atoms.

Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands, exchange objects and kiss each other goodbye.

No matter how hard he tries, President Bush can't keep his name out of this year's presidential campaign.

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Shared resources, such as the Internet, have created a highly interconnected cyber-infrastructure. Critical infrastructures in domains such as medical, power, telecommunications, and finance are highly dependent on information systems. These two factors have exposed our critical infrastructures to malicious attacks

The Neural Simulation Language (NSL), developed by Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Michael Arbib, and Amanda Alexander, provides a simulation environment for modular brain modeling. NSL is an object-oriented language offering object-oriented protocols applicable to all levels of neural simulation. One of NSL's

It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it's clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability

This paper examines the relevance for the emerging markets of the construct of family business, in terms of three parameters - pre-dominance of the family in business, engagement of the family dominantly in the business, and identification of the family

What has been the quality of jobs generated by Punjab's urban unorganised establishments in an era of globalisation?" is the central question addressed in this paper. It is argued that the unorganised establishments' growth, under the conditions of exogenous technology,

The purpose of this study is to underline some of the distinctive practices of the hospitality industry in China. Particularly, we have interviewed several industry experts in luxury hotel properties in China and the USA and have compared their human

This study tries to examine the impact of economic reforms initiated in 1991 on the growth and adjustment process of organised manufacturing sector of India by analysing the trends in value added, labour and capital and also trends in partial

As service-based enterprises expand beyond their domestic markets to countries in transition, additional challenges are presented in terms of internationalising existing practices. This study, based on both qualitative and quantitative research, examines how a foreign and domestic retailer, operating in

Romania joined the European Union (EU) on January 1, 2007 with promises of great economic gains for all Romanians. This research comprised from 462 Romania respondents shows that in the short run, there are groups who do not see benefits.

Publish/Subscribe infrastructures have gained significant traction recently with several specifications such as the Java Message Service (JMS), WS-Eventing and WS-Notification. In this paper we present a scheme for the secure organisation and discovery of topics in distributed publish/subscribe systems. The

A vibroacoustic analysis toolkit for launch vehicle telemetry was refactored as a service architecture using Globus Toolkit 4.0. We grid-enabled two tools in the analysis flow, managing their remote execution workflow from a desktop client. We examine the performance of

We propose a method for wide-area message-passing systems to perform broadcasts and reductions efficiently using latency and bandwidth-aware spanning trees constructed at run-time. These trees are updated when processes join or leave a computation, allowing effective execution to continue. We

The Network and Distributed Systems Group within the University of Franche-Comte's computer research lab (LIFC) gained solid expertise on medical e-diagnosis in the area of remote collaboration through continued research and findings. TeNeCi (Cooperative Teleneurology) is a European remote diagnosis

An attribute-based authorisation infrastructure developed for the Open Science Grid (OSG) is presented. The infrastructure integrates existing identity-mapping and group-membership services using concepts prototyped in the PRIMA system. Authorisation scenarios for requests to compute and data resources are detailed. A