Another Effort for a Bibliographic Union

The bibliographic advantages of a centralised union catalogue for ILL and resource sharing

This paper examines some of the bibliographic advantages of a union catalogue with a central database over a distributed, or “virtual,” union catalogue. Such advantages may be worth considering when a library network makes a decision about which system model to adopt as the basis of a document delivery service. The nature of these bibliographic advantages is discussed in the context of interlib...

Best Effort Query Answering for Mediators with Union Views

PAUWELS\' OSTEOTOMY FOR FEMORAL NECK NON-:union:

During a period of nine years (1982-1991), Pauwels' osteotomy was performed for 38 cases of femoral neck non-:::union:::. 32 led to consolidation with one osteotomy (84%) and 6 failed (3 needed revision (92%), one died and two were lost to follow-up). The length of follow-up was 2-11 years, the average time of non-:::union::: 12 months (ranging from 4 months to 13 years) and the mean patien...

A New Architecture Based on Artificial Neural Network and PSO Algorithm for Estimating Software Development Effort

Software project management has always faced challenges that have often had a great impact on the outcome of projects in future. For this, Managers of software projects always seek solutions against challenges. The implementation of unguaranteed approaches or mere personal experiences by managers does not necessarily suffice for solving the problems. Therefore, the management area of software p...

Mapping Bibliographic Records with Bibliographic Hash Keys

This poster presents a hash key for bibliographic records called bibkey. It is shown how bibkey can be used to detect duplicates and to map similar bibliographic records among distributed databases.