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Requirements for XML Document Database Systems

The shift from SGML to XML has created new demands for managing structured documents. Many XML documents will be transient representations for the purpose of data exchange between different types of applications, but there will also be a need for effective means to manage persistent XML data as a database. This paper explores requirements for an XML database management system. The purpose of the paper is not to suggest a single type of system covering all necessary features. Instead the purpose is to initiate discussion of the requirements arising from document collections, to offer a context in which to evaluate current and future solutions, and to encourage the development of proper models and systems for XML database management.

How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me?

An anonymous reader writes "I am a biomedical researcher interested in having general-purpose, scientific programs developed and released as open source. Interface design and reusability of the code are of primary importance to me. For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem to be the best way to get the job done quickly. While I have some programming experience, I have few connections to the industrial world. So my question to Slashdot readers is: how do I find someone (individual or business) to write high-quality programs? Are there reputable contractors experienced in Cocoa? What sort of rates should I expect, to use as a starting point in negotiations? Would a requirement that programs are released as open source make it more or less difficult to find someone to do the job?"

Samsung Releases New All-Purpose Smartphone for Holiday Season

Samsung OmniaI recently came across an article detailing all the devices made obsolete by the cellphone. The Samsung Omnia confirms the thrust of that article. Available for online pre-order at www.verizonwireless.com beginning tomorrow and in store pickup on December 8, the Samsung Omnia boasts an impressive array of features including full HTML Web browser with touch navigation, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, a 5.0 megapixel camera, MP3 playback, Bluetooth support, text, picture, and video message, and a host of other features.

Portable Antiquities Scheme Is Fit For Purpose Say Funders MLA

The nationwide voluntary scheme that logs and identifies thousands of archaeological finds made by the members of the public in England and Wales has been given the green light for continued funding.

Once More, With Feeling: Copyright Is Not A Welfare System For Musicians

The purpose of copyright is clear: it's to provide an incentive for the creation of new content. As such, it makes absolutely no sense to ever retroactively extend any sort of copyright. The government, backed by citizens, made a deal with content creators: you create content and we give you a monopoly for x number of years -- and clearly that deal was considered fair by the content creators, or they wouldn't have agreed to it and created the content. To go back and change the terms of the deal at a later date is unfair to everyone. It's renegotiating a deal against citizens' best interests. It's as if you bought a car for a price you negotiated, and three years later, the car company comes back to you and says that you need to pay more, because they, alone, decided that they didn't make enough off of you.

Behind The Blog Curtain

The purpose of this blog is to allow me to do what I enjoy doing more than anything else in the world. Let me describe it briefly for you.

Vodafone UK conjures up a Storm with exclusive new touch-screen BlackBerry

exclusively purpose built for Vodafone, will be available to pre-order from today at www.vodafone.co.uk/storm, through Vodafone’s retail stores and by telesales. Customers can also pre-register interest through Vodafone’s retail partner Phones 4U.vf bb_storm_9500.gif

Best Practice for Securing Mobile Handheld Devices

The primary purpose of email in an organization is to relay important information to employees, stakeholders, and associates of the institution. Many institutions do classify how and in what capacity their computer systems are to be used. My employer, NC State University, uses the institution’s website as a means of communicating the acceptable use of email and computers while in the workplace. The website is meant to provide easy access to information should anyone feel uncertain about online activity. One can find all of the rules of conduct within the Computer and Network Use Regulations page. While some companies are stricter than others, it is sometimes acceptable to use workplace email accounts as a means of personal communication. However, because the same accounts are being used to transfer critical information such as documents

The World of Investments - Cultivating Your Personal Investment Skills (i)

Function and Purpose - Role for Uncompromised Oversight The stock market is one of the most important sources for companies to raise money. This allows businesses to go public, or raise additional capital for expansion. The liquidity that an exchange provides affords investors the ability to quickly and easily sell securities.

Optimizing Blogs for Search Engines

What is the purpose of optimizing blogs for search engines? Many bloggers overlook the importance of optimizing blogs for search engines. The point of blogging is usually to gain readers and have others read your opinions on various issues on life. Some bloggers who blog to make money or promote their business main goal is to gain more traffic.

GIZMOS & GADGETS: Boob-phone power

Beyond their reproductive purpose and ability to attract, breasts spend most of their time bouncing up and down annoyingly while their owners try to go about their everyday lives. Addrienne So, researcher and writer for Wired magazine, thought bouncing boobs might have another calling: alternative energy.

Shuttle Crew Unpacks Aboard Space Station

The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module attached to the International Space Station, Nov. 17, 2008. (NASA TV)

MetaTrieve Database Search Engine and Query Tool

MetaTrieve was developed for the expressed purpose of finally clearing this bottleneck and providing the many information-seeking users in virtually all departments throughout a company with a tool that allows them to easily and intuitively close the loop between being able to initially discover where data is located and then query the data once located.

Mobile spectrum analyzers suit up for field work

Rohde & Schwarz is presenting two all-purpose instruments for mobile spectrum analysis: the R&S FSH4 and the R&S FSH8. Both analyzers are rugged, handy and lightweight. They also come equipped with a powerful battery pack. The R&S FSH4 and R&S FSH8 cover the frequency range from 9kHz to 3.6GHz or 8GHz. Depending on the options installed, they can also be used as two-port vector network analyzers, as cable and antenna testers or as power meters. This means that they support almost all RF measurement tasks encountered in service, installation and maintenance applications.

Shuttle Astronauts Attach Logistics Module to International Space Station

Astronauts have attached the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station, which holds equipment to expand the living quarters on the space station and carry out other improvements. VOA's Jessica Berman has more.

Russia donates mobile health facilities to Nepal, UN health agency reports

Russia has donated three huge multi-purpose tents for use as field hospitals in flood-ravaged areas of Nepal, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reports as the agency continues to provide relief to flood victims.

Video games join fight against childhood cancer

GMS has launched its Play for a Purpose initiative. It will serve as the proving ground for the company’s vision. The initiative unifies games, gamers and advertisers to make an impact on worthy causes. The goal of the first game in the initiative is to raise US$500,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.

Hacked USB flash drive piques interest, remains ironically forgettable

USB key drives usually only serve one boring purpose: to give users an inexpensive way to download and take information with them on the go. But who said all USB keys have to be so boring? We're starting to see manufacturers get more creative, but whatever happened to the classic practical joke?

Handheld spectrum analyzers meet requirements for field use

Munich, Germany - Rohde & Schwarz is presenting two all-purpose instruments for mobile spectrum analysis: the R&S FSH4 and the R&S FSH8. Both analyzers are rugged, handy and lightweight. They also come equipped with a powerful battery pack. The R&S FSH4 and R&S FSH8 cover the frequency range from 9 kHz to 3.6 GHz or 8 GHz. Depending on the options installed, they can also be used as two-port vector network analyzers, as cable and antenna testers or as power meters. This means that they support almost all RF measurement tasks encountered in service, installation and maintenance applications.

Endeavour astronauts board space shuttle

The Space Shuttle Endeavour with the Leonardo multi-purpose logistics module is visible in the open payload bay of the orbiter in this image from cameras aboard the International Space Station from NASA TV. Picture: Reuters/NASA TV (United States)

NASA space tests 'interplanetary internet' protocol

NASA has announced successful space tests of its new purpose-designed interplanetary communications networking protocol, which it calls Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN). Famed TCP/IP pioneer Vint Cerf was instrumental in the space net's design.

Endeavour astronaut loses tools in space

The Space Station's robotic arm removes the Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module from Endeavour's cargo bay

Canadian and Brazilian synchrotrons sign agreement

Developing innovative, state-of-the-art synchrotron instrumentation is the purpose of an agreement signed today between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and the Brazilian Association of Synchrotron Light Technology (ABTLuS), operator of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS). The agreement was signed at LNLS before Stockwell Day, Canada's Minister of International Trade.

Canadian and Brazilian Synchrotrons Sign Agreement

CAMPINAS, BRAZIL - Developing innovative, state-of-the-art synchrotron instrumentation is the purpose of an agreement signed today between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and the Brazilian Association of Synchrotron Light Technology (ABTLuS), operator of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS). The agreement was signed at LNLS before Stockwell Day, Canada’s Minister of International Trade.

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