JOPA is a Java OWL persistence framework aimed at efficient programmatic access to OWL2 ontologies and RDF graphs in Java. The system is based on integrity constraints [1] in OWL that JOPA uses to ...

Polyploidy, having multiple copies of the entire set of chromosomes, underpins major innovations in both animals and plants and fuels biodiversity. Yet, why some polyploid lineages are successful ...

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The government's proposed changes in the Budget to inheritance tax relief for farms could have major consequences for some farm families. Intense lobbying efforts are now underway to limit the impact ...

It is a methodology of hiding the implementation of internal details and only showcasing the funtionalities to the users. In Java, the 100 percent abstraction is achieved by interfaces and abstract ...

This library limits itself to config files. If you want to load config from a database or something, you would need to write some custom code. The library has nice support for merging configurations ...

Composition, on the other hand, is the technique of building complex objects by combining simpler objects, rather than inheriting from a base class. In this article, we will discuss why composition is ...

Most software applications require persistence programming of some kind—but what exactly is it, and more importantly, are we doing it right? A few years ago, my team was working on a commercial Java ...

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