Broadening the Scope…

Broadening the Scope of Nanopublications

In this paper, we present an approach for extending the existing concept of nanopublications — tiny entities of scientific results in RDF representation — to broaden their application range. The proposed extension uses English sentences to represent informal and underspecified scientific claims. These sentences follow a syntactic and semantic scheme that we call AIDA (Atomic, Independent, Decla...

Broadening the Scope of Recognition Memory

Within the literature of psychological and decision sciences, there is a critical difference in the way recognition is defined and studied experimentally. To address this difference, the current experiment examines and attempts to disentangle the influence of two recognition judgment sources (from within an experiment and from an individual’s prior life experiences) upon two different recogniti...

Broadening the scope of nursing practice.

n engl j med 364;3 nejm.org january 20, 2011 193 phase of reform must slow the growth of health care costs and improve value through payment reforms, including bundling of payments and payments for episodes of care. Some savings will derive from implementation of innovative models of care, such as accountable care organizations, medical homes, transitional care, and community-based care. We bel...

Broadening the scope of physician supply projections.

Broadening the Scope of Cultural Neuroscience

Chiao, Cheon, Pornpattananangkul, Mrazek, and Blizinsky offer a comprehensive review of cultural neuroscience research. For such a young field, cultural neuroscience has made great strides in the effort to understand the neural and genetic mechanisms underlying cultural differences in psychology. Here, we pose a set of questions that, if addressed in the future, may help develop the field. Firs...