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Basic Philosophy: an Old Chinese Poem Says

This essay grew from a talk I gave on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Chinese Mathematical Society. I dedicate the lecture to the memory of my teacher S. S. Chern who had passed away half a year before (December 2004). During my graduate studies, I was rather free in picking research topics. I [724] worked on fundamental groups of manifolds with non-positive curvature. But in ...

Life: A Poem

Accidental hypothermia–an update

BACKGROUND This paper provides an up-to-date review of the management and outcome of accidental hypothermia patients with and without cardiac arrest. METHODS The authors reviewed the relevant literature in their specialist field. Summaries were merged, discussed and approved to produce this narrative review. RESULTS The hospital use of minimally-invasive rewarming for non-arrested, otherwis...

POEM: An Ontology Manager Based on Existence Constraints

Whereas building and enriching ontologies are complex and tedious tasks, only few tools propose a complete solution to assist users. This paper presents POEM (Platform for Ontology crEation and Management) which provides a complete environment for ontology building, merge and evolution. POEM’s algorithms are based on existence constraints and Boolean equations that allow to capture the semantic...

A critical care holiday poem.