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Ethnobotany of the wild Mexican Cucurbitaceae

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This paper presents the results of a survey on the ethnobotany of the wild Mexican Cucurbitaceae. The sources of information were fieldwork in different regions of Mexico, as well as herbarium specimens and bibliographic references. A total of 34 wild spe

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Protection and administration of XML data sources

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EXtensible Markup Language (XML) security has become a relevant research topic due to the widespread use of XML as the language for information interchange and document definition over the Web. In this context, developing an access control mechanism in te

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The puzzle of absolute pitch

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Absolute pitch - the ability to name or produce a note of particular pitch in the absence of a reference note - is generally considered to be extremely rare. However, it has been found that native speakers of two different tone languages - Mandarin and Vi

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Invisible racism - The language and ontology of 'White Trash'

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This article examines the uses of the term 'White Trash', as a descriptor for identifiable sectors in the United States and Australia. Through consideration of those sectors' history, status and culture, questions of race are addressed with a view to d

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Devolved manufacturing

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Recent changes in the product creation process have shown reductions in design and manufacturing time and costs due to the introduction of new manufacturing philosophies, and computer based methods. Major improvements have also been found in the distribut

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Modeling workflow processes with colored Petri nets

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The definition and maintenance of workflow processes have become important tasks for enterprises as workflow management systems (WFMS) are systematically applied to critical business processes. In order to simplify the management and usage of workflow pro

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Fairness in shared invocation servicing

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Invocation servicing is an important aspect of many concurrent programming languages. Some invocation handling mechanisms allow for multiway servicing by multiple processes. This paper addresses fairness with respect to choosing which invocation to servic

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SIR: inter-program concurrency support for SR programs

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This paper presents synchronizing interoperable resources (SIR). SIR extends to multi-program environments the concurrent communication mechanisms in the SR concurrent programming language. This paper discusses design and implementation issues including i