Reviewing Existing Knowledge Prior to Conducting Animal Studies

Reviewing existing knowledge prior to conducting animal studies.

Highly polarised viewpoints about animal experimentation have often prevented agreement. However, important common ground between advocates and opponents was demonstrated within a discussion forum hosted at www.research-methodology.org.uk in July-August 2008, by the independent charity, SABRE Research UK. Agreement existed that many animal studies have methodological flaws - such as inappropria...

Conducting feasibility studies for knowledge based systems

This paper describes how to carry out a feasibility study for a potential knowledge based system application. It discusses factors to be considered under three headings: the business case, the technical feasibility, and stakeholder issues. It concludes with a case study of a feasibility study for a KBS to guide surgeons in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid conditions. q 2004 Elsevier B.V. All ...

Divine detailed prior knowledge to creatures in transcendent philosophy

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Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Extracting Prior Knowledge from Data Distribution to Migrate from Blind to Semi-Supervised Clustering

Although many studies have been conducted to improve the clustering efficiency, most of the state-of-art schemes suffer from the lack of robustness and stability. This paper is aimed at proposing an efficient approach to elicit prior knowledge in terms of must-link and cannot-link from the estimated distribution of raw data in order to convert a blind clustering problem into a semi-supervised o...