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The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

Principles Governing AMA Web Sites

THE INTERNET HAS PERMITTED physicians, other health care professionals, patients, and other consumers to quickly access medical information in unprecedented volume. Such access has the potential to speed the transformation of the patient-physician relationship from that of physician authority ministering advice and treatment (with sometimes questionable patient understanding and adherence to re...

Esfinge at CLEF 2007: First Steps in a Multiple Question and Multiple Answer Approach

Use of the Web brought 32% (8/25) increase in performance Experiments Coping with five kinds of anaphoric expressions (see paper) Invoking PALAVRAS, a broad-coverage parser for Portuguese [Bick 2000] Dealing with sentence arguments (object, subject, etc.) as candidates Shallow reference resolution algorithm: 71% accuracy in general (over 122 questions) Producing several questions from the origi...

Expressando Atributos Não-Funcionais em Workflows Científicos

In this paper we present OSC, a scientific workflow specification language based on software architecture principles. In contrast with other approaches, OSC employs connectors as first-class constructs. In this way, we leverage reusability and compositionality in the workflow modeling process, specially in the configuration of mechanisms that manage non-functional attributes. Resumo. Este artig...