Caregivers of Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Possible Impacts on Patients’ Mortality and Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support–Defined Morbidity Events Courtenay R. Bruce, JD, MA; Charles G. Minard, PhD; L.A. Wilhelms, BA; Mackenzie Abraham, BA; Javier Amione-Guerra, MD; Linda Pham, MSSW, LCSW; Sherry D. Grogan, MSN, PMH, NP; Barry Trachtenberg, MD; ...

In this paper, we discussed the problems brought by the schema heterogeneity in DLs, especially those problems found in the application of the OAI-PMH protocol. This paper studies the problem from two perspectives, namely the schema and the architecture respectively. A preliminary architecture is provided that integrates the ontology, agent, P2P together to support the schema mapping. And the s...

This paper describes the development of a testbed for formalized categories of collection-item metadata relationships. Because these categories are characterized using logic-based formal languages and are most naturally analyzed by exploring inferences and logical relationships, the testbed is based on contemporary semantic web architecture. We describe the design and development of the testbed...

10 Correspondence: Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, PMH/UHN, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, Division of Signaling Biology, Life Sciences Discovery Centre, Room 9-305, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7. Tel./Fax: 416-581-7437; Email: [email protected] Please note that this article may not be used for commercial purposes. For further information please refer to the copyrig...

Numerous papers have addressed building Union Catalog (UC) technologies, such as metadata schema, data exchange (e.g., OAI-PMH, Z39.50), and resource classification. In contrast to these approaches, in this article, we focus on UC technologies that leverage resource utilization across digital resources. We take the repositories of National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) in Taiwan as the projec...

In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources are made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings challenges to the discoverability and usage of these resources by potential users. A widely-used approach is metadata aggregation, where a central organization takes the role of facilitating the di...

By the end of the late 90’s the Open Archives Initiative needed direction to insure its improvement and thus, created the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard. The movement showed a rise in popularity, followed by a decline then a relative stabilization. This process was essentially a way to ensure the viability of open archive repositories. However, a me...

Introduction Perinatal mental health (PMH) conditions affect around one in four women, and may be even higher women from some ethnic minority groups those living low socioeconomic circumstances. Poor PMH causes significant distress can have lifelong adverse impacts for children. In England, current prevalence rates are estimated using data of the general population do not take sociodemographic ...

Farm tractors are very popular in Poland and other European countries. When coupled with trailers equipped a crane grapple, they also used, especially easily accessible, flat terrain, for timber forwarding the CTL (Cut-to-Length) method. A comparative analysis of working time productivity was performed on two units, consisting farm tractor Ursus Farma trailer load capacity 6 tons, as well Valtr...

Skidders are very cost-effective extraction machines, and winch-assist systems may extend their operating range to increasingly steep terrain. The use of skidder is relatively new, little information available about operational efficiency potential soil impact. A productivity disturbance study was carried out in Southland (New Zealand) gauge the benefits winch assistance by comparing performanc...