This short paper aims at demonstrating the integration of workflow specifications with conceptual models for Web application design. In particular, the authors propose a visual editor of business process diagrams (according to the BPMN [Business Process Management Notation]notation), which seamlessly integrates into the commercial CASE tool called WebRatio, which allows...
Oct 08, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Researchers have announced the discovery of the first complete skeleton of a giant pliosaurus. The predator, which the researchers from the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum have dubbed &q Oct 08, 2006 (The Australian...
WASHINGTON AP -- Using advanced computer technology and a laser scanner to document every dimple, bump and scratch, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution are building the most anatomically correct skeleton yet of a large dinosaur with the help of two Oklahoma companies.
EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen was also in a nostalgic mood during last week's annual Team Summit with satellite dealers in Denver. He greeted the dealers' standing ovation with a quip that he wasn't running for political offi EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie...
INTRODUCTION The development, growth, and remodeling of skeletal structures is a highly regulated process beginning with mesenchymal stem cells condensations in the early embryo and finishing with the homeostatic skeleton of the adult. It is widely accepted that both genetic and epigenetic factors determine the final shape and...
SIR GERRY (3.15) can put a smile back on the faces of trainer James Fanshawe and owner Gerry Galligan by winning today's Diadem Stakes at Ascot. Fanshawe, the self-styled Skeleton Man, has been worrying even more than usual about the form of his horses for much...
SIR GERRY (3.15) can put a smile back on the faces of trainer James Fanshawe and owner Gerry Galligan by winning today's Diadem Stakes at Ascot. Fanshawe, the self-styled Skeleton Man, has been worrying even more than usual about the form of his horses for much...
Museum of Science, Boston to open new exhibit, Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff November 15, 2008 Anonymous donor provides extremely rare and mostly complete, 65-million-year-old dinosaur fossil to Museum on long-term loan BOSTON -- The Museum of Science, Boston today announced that it will unveil an extremely...
When power plants and automobiles pump out C[O.sub.2], most of it goes straight into the atmosphere. But about one-third is absorbed by the planet's oceans. The oceans' daily absorption of some 22 million tons of C[O.sub.2] is steadily changing the chemistry of seawater and causing the oceans to...
Dirt, City and Fear Collide at Hybrid Motocross Competition ATLANTA, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- As night falls on Saturday, November 1st, a sinister glow will emerge from the abandoned Pullman Train Depot as Red Bull Metallicross invades for a hybrid motocross competition in Atlanta, GA. Within the...
IZAGRE, Spain AFP — In a patch of land near this northern village, the forgotten remains of Republican victims of Spain's 1936-39 civil war dead are reappearing, reviving painful memories for older residents. Armed with brushes and trowels, a team of volunteer archeologists carefully extract skeletons that lie...
DAMIEN Hirst is one of the richest artists who ever lived - and it's all thanks to the son of an IRA War of Independence hero. Controversial Hirst, worth an estimated pounds 400m, made his fortune from pickled cows and sharks. But...
THE art world is a funny old place. Not only does a collection of bizarre stuffed zebras, pickled sharks in jars and carvings of half- angels and skeletons fetch a record breaking EUR140 million but the man behind the sale is the son of a female Easter Rising fighter! ...
DAMIEN Hirst is one of the richest artists who ever lived - and it's all thanks to the son of an old IRA War of Independence hero. Controversial Hirst, worth an estimated pounds 500m, made his fortune from pickled cows and sharks. ...
'I am 58 and recently learned I have osteoporosis in my hip. After using Fosamax for many years, I decided to do weightlifting and the treadmill. Please address how to keep strong bones." -- Marilyn Pedro, Fremont In contrast to the root of...
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Archaeologists have found two groups of complete Neolithic human remains in peninsular Malaysia and on Borneo island that may better explain prehistoric human life, reports said Friday. Archaeologists say the remains are more than 3,000 years old and were found within two months of...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mantis shrimp have oddball vision. Turns out, they can see a type of light no other animal has been known to detect. Light waves are made of vibrating particles called photons. Mantis shrimp see a special type of polarized light (light waves with the...
I am a trial attorney in Laredo, Texas, so I usually don't have time to read books, much less write e-mails on books. I do, however, love your magazine and make time to read it. I was happy to see your article by Jessica Teisch on Chris Bohjalian, but you...
The extensive remains of a 120-million-year-old dinosaur have been found by palaeontologists near the remote village of Morella in eastern Spain, which they say could belong to a hitherto undiscovered species. The parts of the sauropod dinosaur are virtually intact, and the scientists hope they will eventually...