▪ Abstract The heparan sulfate on the surface of all adherent cells modulates the actions of a
large number of extracellular ligands. Members of both cell surface heparan sulfate …

This review will summarize our current state of knowledge of the structure, biochemical
properties and functions of syndecans, a family of transmembrane heparan sulphate …

There is a tremendous interest in big data by academia, industry and a large user base.
Several commercial and open source providers unleashed a variety of products to support …

In this paper, we examine the issue of mining association rules among items in a large
database of sales transactions. The mining of association rules can be mapped into the …

Recently, the SPARQL query language for RDF has reached the W3C recommendation
status. In response to this emerging standard, the database community is currently exploring …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents the benchmark specifications developed for
XMark, a set of queries and lessons learned while executing the workload specification on a …

We study fundamental aspects related to the efficient processing of the SPARQL query
language for RDF, proposed by the W3C to encode machine-readable information in the …

Syndecans function as membrane receptors for a bewildering array of ligands through their
glycosaminoglycan chains but their precise roles have been hard to pin down. Syndecans …

Weak Consistency: A Generalized Theory and Optimistic Implementations for Distributed
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We report on the fourth in a series of studies on the reliability of application programs in the
face of random input. Over the previous 15 years, we have studied the reliability of UNIX …