Special Issue – Agriculture Ontology

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Special issue on ontology and linked data matching

Semantic web technologies break down many of the barriers to leveraging the large amount of data and information that has been collected or created. The use of unique identifiers, transport protocols like HTTP, and uniform data description languages like RDF go a considerable way towards providing seamless access to this data. Consequently, the semantic web has grown with the continual creation...

Biomedical Ontology in Action Biomedical Ontology in Action Contributions to This Special Issue

Biomedical ontology is now an important element of biomedical research [1], healthcare [2] and public health [3], especially when it comes to integrating datasets in support of translational research [4]. Broadly defined, biomedical ontologies include the thesauri, terminologies, classifications and other coding systems used in biomedicine, in addition to those resources concerned with the iden...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

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It is with great pleasure that I introduce this specia l i s sue of Aging Successfully that focuses on Preventive Gerontology. Aging successfully is dependent on the individual himself or herself. While health professionals can act as a guide through life’s journey, it is only through one’s own efforts that the best outcomes can be assured. This issue provides tools that all of us can use to ag...