Colombian Government Publications

MMWR publications during the lapse in government funding

Preserving State Government Web Publications - First-Year Experiences

Government information publishing on the web encounters differing expectations concerning the permanence of documents. Presumptions of informality in web authoring and publishing widely persist. But, terms like "government documents" convey, at least to the layman, an expectation of formality, official content, and permanence. If permanent, searchable archives of electronic documents are to be ...

Automatic Subject Heading Assignment for Online Government Publications Using A Semi-supervised Machine Learning Approach

As the dramatic expansion of online publications continues, state libraries urgently need effective tools to organize and archive the huge number of government documents published online. Automatic text categorization techniques can be applied to classify documents approximately, given a sufficient number of labeled training examples. However, obtaining training labels is very expensive, requir...

Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications Meet the Web

The world of scientific publications has been largely oblivious to the advent of the Web and to advances in ICT. Scientific knowledge dissemination is still based on the traditional notion of “paper” publication and on peer review as quality assessment method. The current approach encourages authors to write many (possibly incremental) papers to get more “tokens of credit”, generating often unn...

Nutrition in Colombian pregnant women.

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status of pregnant women in Colombia and the associations between gestational BMI and sociodemographic and gestational characteristics. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. A secondary analysis was made of data from the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey of Colombia. SETTING Bogotá, Colombia. SUBJECTS Pregnant adolescents aged 13-19 y...