Chinese census: First head-count begins next week

Applied ontology: The next decade begins

In 2005, IOS Press published the first issue of Applied Ontology. At the time, we argued that, at the core of the journal, there was “a desire to understand the nature of reality and how people construe their world”. We declared that ontology was both “fundamental to human thought” and “to translating our thoughts into computational artifacts” (Guarino & Musen, 2005). With an editorial board of...

World's First Class C Web Census: The First Step in a Complete Census of the Web

Our research goal is to measure the exact size of the World Wide Web (i.e., a census). The measure we are interested in is the number of publicly accessible web servers on port 80. We present the results from an initial survey of 3.5% of all addressable IP addresses. This is the largest survey of the Web performed to date. We then present results from the world’s first census of all Class C IP ...

Performance of transect and point count underwater visual census methods

A simulation approach was used to study bias and variability of density estimates of fish using the transect and point count underwater visual census methods. Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of fish density, sampling effort, and the speed of fish in relation to the observer. Fish density and sampling effort did not significantly bias estimates of fish density using eithe...

Trial of steroids for treating head injury begins.

A First-Monday-Week Firecracker!

This Term the Supreme Court is jumping right into its work. The day after “First Monday,” the justices are confronting one of the most consequential and long-delayed questions in constitutional jurisprudence: when does “political gerrymandering” violate the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution? Political gerrymandering is manipulation of state-legislative or congressional districts ...