Recent reports from the Department of Health (2008), the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2011) and the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People (2012) have been highly critical regarding the care that some patients have experienced. They have highlighted that fundamental aspects of care are missing resulting in a lack of high quality individualised nursing care, which is in co...

When estimating the value of Arabic numerals like ‘‘3,’’ ‘‘33,’’ and ‘‘333,’’ is each symbol treated holistically and associated with a different mental magnitude along a common scale (Dehaene, 1989), or is there unique scaling for units, decades, hundreds, and so on (McCloskey, 1992)? In this opinion piece, we argue that the evidence is more consistent with the holistic, single-scaling account...

We illustrate the works toward implementing an Entity Centric Semantic Search Engine (ECSSE). ECSSE leverages the Sindice Semantic Web Index to find and combine together semantically structured data published on the web. With respect to previous Semantic Web Data integrators, ECSSE, uses an holistic approach in which large scale semantic web indexing, logic reasoning, data aggregation heuristic...