Electronic Medical Record (EMR) databases contain a large amount of temporal events such as diagnosis dates for various symptoms. Analyzing disease progression pathways in terms of these observed events can provide important insights into how diseases evolve over time. Moreover, connecting these pathways to the eventual outcomes of the corresponding patients can help clinicians understand how c...

After years of talking about it, valuebased marketing of beef has become a reality. As a result, carcass traits are receiving increased emphasis when breeding decisions are made. There is some debate within the beef industry whether too much emphasis is being placed on the end-product. This question is raised because unit cost of production, reproduction, and early growth are still the factors ...

Interoperable data exchange and reproducibility are increasingly important for modern scientific research. This paper shows how three open source projects work together to realize this: (i) the R project, providing the lingua franca for statistical analysis, (ii) the Open Geospatial Consortium's Sensor Observation Service (SOS), a standardized data warehouse service for storing and retrieving s...