The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative at the GESIS Social Science Information Centre (GESIS-IZ), which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage ‘cross-concordances’ between controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred...

Colonial birds must derive benefits from living in conspecific groups and with other species. One possible benefit is that they follow previously successful individuals to foraging sites (information center hypothesis). To test for evidence of intraand interspecific information transfer, we assessed the group size and composition of flights of doublecrested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) an...

Background and aims: The Palestinian poison control and drug information center (PCDIC) was established in 2006 to provide up-to-date information regarding medications and help in the early diagnosis and management of poisoning cases. This manuscript summarizes the activities carried out by the PCDIC in the past two years. Methodology: Documented inquires received at the PCDIC were analyzed. Ac...

Please cite this article in press as: Zhang J et al. Enhanced mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanotube buckypaper by in linking. Carbon (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2013.06.047 Jianwei Zhang , Dazhi Jiang *, Hua-Xin Peng , Faxiang Qin b,c a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, People’s Re...

This paper discusses the applicability of a knowledge based system to resource management in the context of information centers. The Information Center Expert (ICE) system has been developed in the MIS Department of the University of Arizona to support the consultation process of information center personnel. The system determines the (software) resource requirements of the end-users and makes ...

It is generally assumed that improved outcomes accompany the use of trust as a governance mechanism in an interfirm relationship. Briefly, trust is a social lubricant that reduces the friction costs of existing trade and/or serves to increase the scope of trade. In contrast to this universalistic view, we posit that the performance of trust-based governance is contingent on the ability of tradi...

NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System, is a project in the Netherlands to build a portal for research information which combines structured research information with information from OAI repositories (publication and other scientific results), websites, and news pages of research institutes. The main goal of NARCIS is to create a central place for searching al...

This paper deals with the semantic representation of user utterances within development of computerized dialogue system intended for city information center. The formalisms for description of natural language are mentioned and verified on user utterances and first dialogue turns within selected domain areas. A parser analyzing the utterance segments according to given rules is presented. Then t...

Finland introduced a personal identification number system in 1964, and since then practically all administrative registers have included this unique identification code. Currently Finland has strict data protection laws, which prohibit the collection of sensitive health and social information. Health data that includes identifiers can be gathered by obtaining informed consent from the patients...

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