Activity of group-transported horses was evaluated during onboard rest stops to determine if horses derive meaningful rest. A single-deck semi-trailer separated into three compartments was used for all shipments. In Experiment One, twelve video cameras were used to record behavior of horses during five, 16 to 20 h shipments, with a high (397.44kg/m2), medium (348.48 kg/m2) and low (220.91 kg/m2) density group in each shipment. One-hour rest stops occurred after 8 h of transport and prior to unloading, during which two groups were provided water. Movement of each horse visible on video was quantified by counting the number of times the head crossed the vertical and/or horizontal axes of the body at the withers. Mean number of movements per 5-min interval in each group (n=13) was used to compare effects of density, access to water, and order of stops. The high and low-density watered groups had increased activity during the first 10 min of both rest stops potentially due to maneuvering for access to water. The medium-density watered groups had increased activity during the first 10 min of only the second rest stop. Activity slightly increased in the medium and low-density groups after 55 min possibly indicating adequate rest, but a similar increase did not occur in highdensity groups. In Experiment Two, two shipments, lasting 23 h and 24 h respectively, consisted of three groups of horses loaded at high density (397.32 kg/m2). Ninety-minute rest stops occurred after every 6 h of transport and prior to unloading for a total of three rest stops. Percentage of visible horses "active" was averaged across each 5-min interval of the stop. Activity was highly variable within and between shipments. Activity was high at the beginning of stops one and three of Shipment One. A similar but less dramatic settling occurred at the start of all three rest stops in Shipment Two. Twenty three of thirty-four noted increases in alertness were due to aggression or noises outside the trailer. In both experiments horses remained active during all stops indicating fatigue had not become a major factor in these studies.

Webben är en framgångssaga. Men vilka tekniska egenskaper gör den framgångsrik?Dr. Roy Fielding identifierade dess stora fördelar och vilka arkitektoniskarestriktioner som främjar dessa. REpresentational State Transfer, ellerREST, är en arkitektonisk stil som samlar dessa restriktioner under en akronym.REST kan användas för att ge webbens positiva egenskaper till webbservicessom konsumeras av automatiserade klienter. Uppdraget har varit att implementeraett Application Programming Interface (API) på ett befintligt system föravtalshantering. API:et ska vara RESTful. Vad detta egentligen innebär verkarinte helt solklart. En stor del av arbetet har legat i att studera Fieldings avhandlingoch reda ut begreppen. Det centrala i REST är det enhetliga interfacet, sominnebär att system, oberoende av varandra ska kunna förstå de meddelandensom hanteras. Det utvecklade systemet har utvärderats mot definitionen avREST och systemet saknar den essentiella delen Hypertext As The Engine OfApplication State (HATEOAS). Denna del är också vad som verkar vara denmest missförstådda, eller till och med helt ignorerade delen av REST. HATEOASinnebär att servern genom länkar, dynamiskt serverar klienten med de vägarklienten kan navigera API:et. Detta leder till att ny funktionalitet kan läggas tillutan att skapa inkompatibilitet med klienten. Klienten kan välja att ignorera länkarmed relationer den inte känner igen. För att REST ska vara användbart såmåste klienten förstå relationerna i API:ets länkar och representationen av dessdata. / The World Wide Web is a success. But, what technical properties made it whatit is today? Dr. Roy Fielding identified the web´s great advantages and a set ofarchitectural restrictions to guard the advantages. REpresentational State Transfer,or REST, is an architectural style gathering these restrictions under oneacronym. REST can be used to give the web´s properties to web services to beconsumed by automated clients. The mission has been to implement an ApplicationProgramming Interface (API) on top of a system for contract handling.The API should be RESTful. What RESTful actually means seems unclear. Themajor part of the work has been to study Fieldings dissertation, sorting out thecharacteristics. The central part of REST, is the uniform interface. It allows intermediarynodes to understand the meaning of a message without knowinganything else about the sender. The system developed has been evaluatedagainst Fieldings definition of REST, still the system lacks Hypertext As TheEngine Of Application State (HATEOAS). This part seems to be the mostwidely misunderstood part of REST, often completely ignored. HATEOASgives the server the power of steering the client through the API, by always providinglinks to the available steps. This leads to the ability to add functionalityto the API without breaking the client. The client can just ignore the links that itdoes not know how to handle. For REST to be useful by automated clients, theclient needs to understand the link relations and the data representations of theAPI.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-172).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bob Jones University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-255).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bob Jones University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-255).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-53).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bob Jones University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-255).

Thesis deals with creation of web service which provides information about cultural events. In the beginning of thesis, there is the most relevant theory which mostly focuses on technological part of the theme. The practical part of the thesis is connected with the web service, which shows usage of knowledge gained during creation of theoretical part. There are two additional web applications. One of them is used to create and manage a user of web service and provide him im-portant information. Author calls such web application a Portal. The last one is consumer of the web service.