According to the Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) honey is included in 147 prescriptions in external applications. Also according to the Smith papyrus (1700 BC) it was used in wound healing: “Thou shouldst bind [the wound] with fresh meat the first day [and] treat afterwards with grease, honey [and] lint

Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initialization and poor convergence to boundary concavities, however, have limited their utility. This paper presents a new

, and to prefer debt to equity if external financing is required. Extensions and applications of the model are discussed.

is automatic and unsupervised in both training and application: senses are induced from a corpus without labeled training insta,nces or other external knowledge sources. The paper demonstrates good performance of context-group discrimination for a sample of natural and artificial ambiguous words

Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast internal memory and slower external memory (such as disks) can be a major performance bottleneck. In this paper, we

This special issue is devoted to the synchronous approach to reactive and real-time programming. This introductory paper presents and discusses the application fields and the principles of synchronous programming. The major concern of the synchronous approach is to base synchronous programming

Abstract This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel first defines a safety policy and makes it public. Then, using this policy, an application can provide binaries

Background Bone cancer pain presents a clinical challenge with limitations of current treatments. Many patients seek ad-ditional therapies that may relieve pain. Many external appli-cations of traditional Chinese medicines (EAs-TCMs) have been evaluated in clinical trials, but fewer are known about

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly being used for designing and building large-scale net-worked and distributed systems. These systems are realized by dynamically composing a variety of network-available services. SOAMANET [15] provides a tool-suite for evaluation of such systems that involve large-scale SOAs on dynamic network platforms, such as Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). For mission critical

Abstract. We describe an approach for integrating non-automotive ap-plications into in-car-entertainment systems while taking account of man-ifold personalization capabilities within a mobile environment. Adaptive user interfaces are generated for external applications using well-known interaction