TECTONIC GRASS ROOTS

Grass-roots Class Alignment

Current ontology alignment practices adopt a centralized approach: the alignment task is carried out by a domain expert, possibly with the help of some ontology alignment tools. In a Peer-to-Peer environment, each end-user (peer) may explicitly or implicitly generate ontology alignments for their own purposes during its own use of the semantic data. This kind of end-user-generated ontology alig...

Grass-roots Semantic Web Tools

One of the biggest challenges of the Semantic Web is to make its tools usable by ordinary users for grass-roots production and integration of semantic information. This paper introduces the ongoing research on this issue in our research group at the Information Sciences Institute. 1. RESEARCH OVERVIEW Despite years of intense work and research on the Semantic Web, it has not become a reality. O...

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The Grass Roots of Synapse Suppression

actual trigger for DSI appears to be a rise in postsynaptic calcium, since it is prevented when calcium chelators, such as EGTA or BAPTA, are present postJohanna M. Montgomery and Daniel V. Madison* Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University School of Medicine synaptically (Llano et al., 1991; Pitler and Alger, 1994). Stanford, California 94305 Following induction, DSI ...

Tax Earmarking and Grass-roots Accountability

We ask whether tax earmarking can foster accountability in public provision of goods and services when consumers can privately monitor provision. We show that earmarking can raise the stakes that consumers have in monitoring public provision independently of how taxes are earmarked, because it introduces a more direct linkage between monitoring and taxes paid.