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Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL

The Web Ontology Language OWL provides a modelling paradigm that is especially well suited for developing models of large, structurally complex domains such as those found in Health Care and the Life Sciences. OWL's declarative nature combined with powerful reasoning tools has effectively supported the development of very large and...

Tags: OWL, Java, Object-oriented, University Of Manchester, Semantic Web, Internet

White papers 2008-08-08

e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives

Potential users of e-science software often have strong technical skills, ranging from the use of scripting languages to the development of substantial pieces of software used by other members of their communities. This paper reflects on the experience of designing and developing software with a technically expert end user, and...

Tags: Software, University Of Manchester, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-06-03

A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?

This might soon be possible according to researchers at the University of Manchester. They've designed a near-infrared diode laser sensor able to record levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane directly from your car's exhaust. Their device could be one day incorporated into onboard diagnostic systems and be permanently...

Tags: Diode, Researcher, Exhaust, Pollution, Dashboard, Laser, Diode Laser Sensor, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-09

A boxer who packs a real punch

Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton retained yesterday his IBO Light Welterweight boxing title by beating Jose Luis Castillo in four rounds in Las Vegas. Is this because he really hits his opponent very hard? According to engineers from the University of Manchester, the answer is a definitive yes. They showed that...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Leisure, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-06-24

Combining AJAX and WSRF for Web-Browser Based Grid Clients

This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of combining Asynchronous Javascript And XML AJAX and the REpresentational State Transfer REST architectural style with the Web Service Resource Framework WSRF standard. Accessing WS-Resources according to WSRF in a manner compatible with the REST principles, using a Web browser, makes it possible to provide...

Tags: Web Service, Client, Distributed Computing, Web Browser, University Of Manchester, Cloud Computing, AJAX, Network Technology, Web Browsers, Web Services, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-11-01

A Platform for the Development of Semantic Web Portals

A Semantic Web portal is a Web application that offers information and services related to a specific domain, and that has been developed with Semantic Web technology. For the time being, the main difference with respect to a traditional Web portal is based on technological aspects: traditional Web portals are...

Tags: University Of Manchester, Semantic Web Portal, Semantic Web, Portals, Web Technology, RDF, Internet

White papers 2006-07-14

Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions

Semantic annotations of web services can facilitate the discovery of services, as well as their composition into workflows. At present, however, the practical utility of such annotations is limited by the small number of service annotations available for general use. Resources for manual annotation are scarce, and therefore some means...

Tags: Web, Annotation, Web Service, University Of Manchester, Process Improvement, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-05-22

Additional Resources

Researchers use ordinary camera flash to create graphene

The production of graphene has just become a whole lot easier. Northwestern University scientists have demonstrated that graphite oxide can be converted instantly to graphene by exposing the material to a pulse of light from an ordinary camera flash. Laura J. Cote, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, and Jiaxing Huang...

Tags: Northwestern University, Camera, Graphene, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...

Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Students report late lecturers via text messaging

Students at Manchester Metropolitan University in the north of England now have an opportunity to report lecturers who are more than ten minutes late in class. It seems to be a constant issue which student unions are trying to address with late lecturers not being able to teach the entire...

Tags: Union, Student, Text Messaging, Time Management, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Citizen journalism captures 11 students arrested in counter-terror raids

Counter-terror police and intelligence service officers have arrested 11 students in Manchester, UK; one British national and ten Pakistani born nationals here in the UK on student visas, and a 41 year old man*. Raids on the central library at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Student, U.K., Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Should universities forget email and use Facebook instead?

Neilsen Online has just released a report stating that amongst other things such as search engine usage, social networking is more popular than email. Considering email is one of the main ways students hear about things from the student unions and university, is email becoming a thing of the past?...

Tags: Facebook, Neilsen Online, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-09

2009: what to expect (or at least hope for)

Zack Whittaker is still trying to work out where he lives, after one massive new year party last night. This post was written a few days ago.  Since becoming a student, my eyes have been wide-opened to the world. Through my research, learning, understanding and general mayhem,...

Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, University Student, Internet, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software, Networking

Blog posts 2009-01-01

LHC scientists get death threats

So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...

Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008

In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM

Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008

In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM

Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Cost Effective Firewall Meets Not-for-Profit Organisations Security Requirements

The Paterson Institute for Cancer Research is an internationally renowned research institute of The University of Manchester, which is supported by major core funding from Cancer Research UK. The company had initially installed a Global Technology Associates GTA GB-1000 firewall. However, after 6 years of robust reliability with the GB-1000...

Tags: Network, Global Secure Systems, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

Case studies 2007-12-04

Garments glowing in the dark

Knitting specialists at the University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that could be used to make clothing glow in the dark. These yarns could soon be integrated into clothing worn by cyclists, joggers, outdoor workers and pedestrians. These garments would be safer for users than current clothing...

Tags: Clothing, Yarn, EL, Dias, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-28

COHSE: Dynamic Linking of Web Resources

This paper presents a description of the COHSE collaborative research project between Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. The purpose of this paper is to summarise the project in terms of the work completed and the results achieved. The focus of...

Tags: Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet

White papers 2007-08-01