Although students could effectively search for web data with proper keywords and select web pages related to the studied core issue, however summarizing or organizing the retrieved information remains a difficult task for them. Concept mapping is known to be an effective knowledge construction tool for helping learners organize important concepts related to a core issue. To address the problem,...

Abstract Lymphedema affects almost 300 million people world-wide. Recent advances in microsurgery introduced two promising physiologic surgical treatments: lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA) and vascularized lymph node transfer (VLNT). Patients seek for information about their pathology treatment options, searching on the Web mostly. The quality of online health-related remains doubtful authors aim...

Finding the right information on the World Wide Web is becoming a fundamental problem, since the amount of global information that the WWW contains is growing at an incredible rate. In this paper, we present a novel method for extracting from a Web object its "hyper" informative content, in contrast with current search engines, which only deal with the "textual" informative content. This method...

INTRODUCTION In this study, the authors aimed to examine the effects of cooperative learning methods using Web Quest and team-based learning on students' self-direction, self-regulation, and academic achievement. METHOD This is a comparative study of students taking a course in mental health and psychiatric disorders. In two consecutive years, a group of students were trained using the WebQue...

Psychology is increasingly interested in understanding the characteristics of the Internet and its effects on people, groups and organizations. However, studying the Internet is not a simple task. First, the Internet is a medium that can be experienced in many different ways. Though a computer and keyboard are usually the mediator of our Internet experience, there are different ways in which us...

Model Transformation (MT) is an important operation in the domain of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). While MDE continues to be further adopted in the design and development of systems, MT programs are applied to more and more complex configurations of models and relationships between them and grow in complexity. Structured techniques have proven to be helpful in design and development of progra...

The purpose of this paper is to trace the evolution of intelligent software from data-centric applications that essentially encapsulate their data environment to ontology-based applications with automated reasoning capabilities. The author draws a distinction between human intelligence and component capabilities within a more general definition of intelligence, which may be embedded in computer...

IMGT/V-QUEST (V-QUEry and STandardization) is an integrated alignment tool for the immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) nucleotide sequences. IMGT/V-QUEST compares germline or rearranged IG or TR variable sequences from users with the IMGT/V-QUEST reference directory sets. The software is based on an original alignment approach which does not accept insertions and deletions. It identifi...

Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) has drawn considerable attention from the OWL and RDF communities. In OBDA, instance data is accessed by means of mappings, which state the relationship between the data in a data source (e.g., an RDBMSs) and the vocabulary of an ontology. In this paper we present Quest, a new system for OBDA focused on fast and efficient reasoning with large ontologies and lar...