La Dolce Italia

Decline of la dolce vita

grasses in New Zealand suggests that some adapted to low grazing pressure as a result of no major herbivores with a distinctive habit — the shedding of old leaves by abscission. The feature of leaf shedding occurs in only about three per cent of the world’s estimated 11,000 grass species, writes Alexandre Antonelli at the University of Zurich and colleagues in Switzerland and New Zealand in the...

La Dolce Vita: A Molecular Feast in Plant–Pathogen Interactions

very different extracellular and intracellular lifestyles. Thus, it was astounding that all of these R genes encode United Kingdom a limited set of products with related structural features. The cloning of R genes continues apace and has recently been augmented by isolation of other key signal transPlants are sessile organisms and lack a circulating, so-duction components. Additionally, the las...

DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Geoscience Ontologies with DOLCE

Conceptual representations are being developed within many geoscience domains to aid semantic-enabled scientific computing, e.g. geology, geophysics, hydrology, marine science, planetary science. These representations often make different ontological assumptions, causing their integration to be impeded. This is particularly problematic for science issues that involve crossdomain knowledge, such...

Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE

In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive way; the reader should refer to the project deliverable for a detailed axiomatization. A comparison with WordNet's top-level taxonomy of nouns is also provided, which shows how DOLCE, used in additi...

Foundational Choices in DOLCE