Patterns of healthcare use in a sample of young adults entering the US Navy (N=1137) were examined in a longitudinal survey study. Baseline data provided information about healthcare use as a civilian, whereas follow-up data were used to examine changes in patterns of use over time following entry into the Military Health System (MHS). Entrance into the MHS was marked by increased use of preven...

Data.geohive.ie aims to provide an authoritative service for serving Ireland’s national geospatial data as Linked Data. The service currently provides information on Irish administrative boundaries and the boundaries used for the Irish 2011 census. The service is designed to support two use cases: serving boundary data of geographic features at various level of detail and capturing the evolutio...

We describe a model of document citation that learns to identify hubs and authorities in a set of linked documents such as pages retrieved from the world wide web or papers retrieved from a research paper archive Un like the popular HITS algorithm which re lies on dubious statistical assumptions our model provides probabilistic estimates that have clear semantics We also nd that in general the ...

Explosion in the number of ‘relevant’ sites (on any topic) on the Web creates a need to identify additional measures, such as quality or reliability, to rank content on the Web. Recent research has used the term authoritative to represent a broader notion of the goodness of a web page. An authoritative page is one that is both relevant and reliable, in the spirit of an “authority” on a subject....

This short paper provides an overview of our activities in establishing the AirSensEUR open software/hardware multi-sensor platform for measuring ambient air quality. Particular emphasis is put on the experiences and lessons learned in the implementation of our platform from the point of view of interoperable data management. Following an overview of the context, architecture and results, we fo...

We examine the use of authorship information in information retrieval for closed communities by extracting expert rankings for queries. We demonstrate that these rankings can be used to re-rank baseline search results and improve performance significantly. We also perform experiments in which we base expertise ratings only on first authors or on all except the final authors, and find that these...

WTi he questions "What is authoritative knowledge in the obstetric setting?"; "Who possesses the information on which action is based?"; and, more importantly, "Who should make the decisions in the birth place?" are the topic of this remarkable series of articles. It is commonly accepted that, as a practicing obstetrician in the United States, I am an authority in the realm of birth. I have tra...

In this article the authors discuss the challenges of performing reasoning on large scale RDF datasets from the Web. Using ter-Horst’s pD* fragment of OWL as a base, the authors compose a rulebased framework for application to web data: they argue their decisions using observations of undesirable examples taken directly from the Web. The authors further temper their OWL fragment through conside...

Recent research on conservative Protestantism suggests that religion has reemerged as an important predictor of childrearing attitudes and practices. This research has focused on the distinctive approach toward discipline among conservative Protestant parents. No study, however, has explored the links between conservative Protestantism and positive parental emotion work (physical and verbal exp...