Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
ally related entity types, or classes, into higher level, more abstract types, as part of a hierarchical classi®cation scheme. graphy, generalization retains the notion of abstrac...
Background: Ultrasound scanning uses the medical imaging format, DICOM, for electronically storing the images and data associated with a particular scan. Large health care facilit...
Will Stott, Andy Ryan, Ian J. Jacobs, Usha Menon, ...
Background: Mitochondria are sub-cellular organelles that have a central role in energy production and in other metabolic pathways of all eukaryotic respiring cells. In the last f...
Domenico Catalano, Flavio Licciulli, Antonio Turi,...