Death is Served

Din din! The (Semantic) Turkey is served!

From its first introduction in this same conference, the original prototype of the Semantic Bookmarking tool Semantic Turkey has undergone a deep and extensive revision process, breaking the boundaries of its original intents and going more and more towards an extensible platform for Knowledge Management and Acquisition based on Semantic Web technologies. Following its recent official release, ...

Health Information Websites: Is the Health Consumer Being Well-Served?

Increasingly health consumers are looking to the Internet for health and medical information. In response to this government and government agencies are establishing websites to provide consumers with better access to health information. Health consumers however, face numerous problems searching health information websites including poor quality information, difficulty in finding relevant infor...

What Function Is Served By MHC Upregulation in Neural Cells?

Locally Served Network Computers

NCs are the natural evolution of PCs, ubiquitous computers everywhere. The current vision of NCs requires two improbable developments: (1) inexpensive high-bandwidth WAN links to the Internet, and (2) inexpensive centralized servers. The large NC bandwidth requirements will force each home or office to have a local server LAN attached to the NCs. These servers will be much less expensive to pur...

Gallstones: Best Served Hot

BACKGROUND Acute episodes of gallstone-related diseases have traditionally been managed conservatively. In the event of gallstones obstructing the common bile duct, patients had endoscopic extraction of calculi with interval cholecystectomy after 4 weeks to 6 weeks when acute inflammatory changes have subsided. This placed the patient at risk of recurrent cholecystitis, pancreatitis, or other c...