Salīm Barakāt’s Intermediary Existence: His Poem Maḥmūd Darwīsh

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...

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Intermediary Influence

Ronald Coase and others writing in his wake typically assume that institutional arrangements evolve to minimize transaction costs. This Article draws attention to a powerful, market-based force that operates contrary to that core assumption: “intermediary influence.” The claim builds on three observations: (1) many transaction costs now take the form of fees paid to specialized intermediaries, ...