Research questions in biodiversity are as diverse and heterogeneous as data are. Most metadata standards are mainly data-focused and pay little attention to the search perspective. In this work, we introduce a method to analyze the actual information need of biodiversity scholars based on two individual studies: (1) a series of workshops with domain experts and (2) an analysis of research and s...

Developing content extraction methods for Humanities domains raises a number of challenges, from the abundance of non-standard entity types to their complexity to the scarcity of data. Close collaboration with Humanities scholars is essential to address these challenges. We discuss an annotation schema for Archaeological texts developed in collaboration with domain experts. Its development requ...

With the increasing demands on software functions, the software systems are becoming larger and more difficult to be managed. The damages caused by system failures are more serious, so the software trustworthiness has become a focus that the international experts and scholars pay close attention to. In the paper, the intension of software trustworthiness has been discussed, and an evaluation me...

In 2007, a leading article was published by Stevan Hobfoll and a team of international experts. The authors synthesized available scientific evidence and distinguished five essential principles of psychosocial care to people confronted with disaster, tragedy, and loss. Care givers should promote: (1) a sense of safety, (2) calming, (3) self- and community efficacy, (4) social connectedness, and...

Growing recognition that the acute health care delivery system contributes proportionally less to health when compared with environment and behavior has focused scholars and public health experts on the need to address nonmedical determinants of health. This paper outlines some steps that the U.S. government can take to address these factors and describes some of the challenges involved. Action...

This poster reports on the first eighteen months of the Mellon-funded two-year Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project [1], a partnership of Cornell University Library, Stanford University Libraries, and the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. The goal of the project is to use Linked Open Data to leverage the intellectual value that librarians and other domain experts and scholars add to informati...

Issues in Ecology is designed to report, in language understandable by non-scientists, the consensus of a panel of scientific experts on issues relevant to the environment. Issues in Ecology was initially supported by the Pew Scholars in Conservation Biology program and is currently supported by the Ecological Society of America. It is published at irregular intervals, as reports are completed....

Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? edited by Benjamin M. Friedman (MIT, 369 pp., $40). Forty years ago, most experts on inequality believed poverty itself was the cause of poverty--the result of discrimination and lack of money. The solution was, therefore, to compensate for discrimination through affirmative action and to transfer money to the poor through welfare pro...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of medicine. The principles derived from core Islamic teachings provide a comprehensive moral, ethical, and legal framework for the practice of medicine. The issue of brain death has significant impact on the procurement of organs from cadavers. It is a major subject of debate and interest to bioscientists, legal experts, religious scholars, and t...