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PurposeNet: A Knowledge Base Organized around Purpose

We show how purpose can be used as a central guiding principle for organizing knowledge about artifacts. It allows the actions in which the artifact participates to be related naturally to other objects. Similarly, the structure or parts of the artifact can also be related to the actions. A knowledgebase called PurposeNet has been built using these principles. A comparison with other knowledeba...

AKI is around the world but public recognition is lacking.

The interest in AKI by nephrologists and critical care physicians, from pathogenesis to therapy, has never been higher. Numerous epidemiologic, clinical, and basic science studies have zeroed in on what is today a leading cause of hospital morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, this is not true for translational studies that would provide progress in the ability to affect the incidence and cou...

Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for nextgeneration ecology and beyond

We present a case for using Global Community Innovation Platforms (GCIPs), an approach to improve innovation and knowledge exchange in international scientific communities through a common and open online infrastructure. We highlight the value of GCIPs by focusing on recent efforts targeting the ecological sciences, where GCIPs are of high relevance given the urgent need for interdisciplinary, ...

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