A service architecture for context awareness and reaction provisioning

Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms allowing applications to be aware of their environment and enabling them to adjust their behavior to the current context. In order to keep track of the relevant context information, a flexible service mechanism should be available for the client applications. In this paper we present a service architecture to provide context-awareness capabilities to users and client applications. Moreover, the service is able to react depending on the user's preferences and context. The conditions for the reaction and the reaction itself are defined in rules the users submit to the service by means of a convenient rule language

Épocas de plantio e doses de nitrogênio e potássio na produtividade e armazenamento da cebola Nitrogen and potassium levels on the onion yield and storage with different planting times

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de épocas de plantio e doses de nitrogênio e potássio sobre a produtividade e armazenamento de cebola, cultivar Texas Grano 502 PRR. Foram conduzidos dois experimentos de março a novembro de 2001, e de agosto de 2001 a março de 2002. O delineamento experimental foi de blocos ao acaso, em parcelas subdivididas com fatorial 4x3. Nas parcelas ficaram as épocas de plantio (março e agosto) e nas subparcelas o fatorial compreendendo quatro doses de N (0, 60, 120 e 180 kg ha-1) e três doses de K2O (0, 90 e 180 kg ha-1), com três repetições. O plantio de março apresentou maior produtividade comercial (66,5 Mg ha-1) comparativamente ao de agosto (41,4 Mg ha-1). Na ausência da adubação potássica e na dose de 90 kg ha-1 de K2O, verificaram-se incrementos lineares na produtividade comercial de acordo com a adubação nitrogenada, enquanto na dose 180 kg ha-1 de K2O, a adubação nitrogenada apresentou comportamento quadrático, com ponto de mínima produtividade na dose de 23,5 kg ha-1 de N. Quanto à produtividade não-comercial, o plantio de março alcançou 6,0 Mg ha-1, enquanto o de agosto alcançou 5,4 Mg ha-1. Observaram-se efeitos significativos de N e K e da interação para perda de massa de bulbos aos 40 e 80 dias após cura.<br>The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of different planting times and nitrogen and potassium levels on onion yield and postharvest storage, cultivar Texas Grano 502 PRR. Two trials were carried out from March to November 2001 and from August 2001 to March 2002, in Brazilian Northeast. A randomized complete block design with split-plot in a 4x3 factorial scheme was used. The plots consisted of planting dates (March and August) and the subplots of the factorial involving four levels of nitrogen (0, 60, 120 and 180 kg ha-1) and three levels of potassium (0, 90 and 180 kg ha-1 K2O) with three replications. The March planting showed higher commercial yield (66.5 Mg ha-1) than August plating (41.4 Mg ha-1). In the absence of the potassium fertilization and at the level of 90 kg ha-1 of K2O, linear increments were observed in the commercial yield according to nitrogen fertilization, while at 180 kg ha-1 of K2O, the nitrogen fertilization showed quadratic behavior, with point of minimum yield at 23.5 kg ha-1. Regarding non-commercial yield (culls), the March planting obtained 6.0 Mg ha-1 and August 5.4 Mg ha-1. Significant effects of N, K and of the interaction were observed for bulb mass loss at 40 and 80 days after cure