results: of the 50 samples tested by the elisa method, 26 samples (52%) were positive for igg . no samples were positive for igm. of the 50 samples tested by the chemiluminescence method, 28 samples (56%) were positive for igg. no samples were positive for igm. conclusions: a significant relationship between the age of the youngest child and the infection rate was seen. no significant correlati...

in this study, modified starch was used as a fat replacer in the milk. the fat replacer was manufactured from modified starch such as pre-gelatinized and cross–linked starches. modified starches were manufactured by hydrochloric acid and citric acid treatments from potato and wheat and were added to skim milk at concentrations of 0.15%, 0.30% and 0.45%. viscosity, total solid, fat content, titr...

DBpedia is one of the first and most prominent nodes of the Linked Open Data cloud. It provides structured data for more than 100 Wikipedia language editions as well as Wikimedia Commons, has a mature ontology and a stable and thorough Linked Data publishing lifecycle. Wikidata, on the other hand, has recently emerged as a user curated source for structured information which is included in Wiki...

The Linking Open Data (LOD) initiative is turning large resources of publicly available structured data from various domains into interlinked RDF(S) facts to constitute the so-called “Web of Data”. But, this Web of Data is by no means a perfect world of consistent and valid facts. Linked Data has multiple dimensions of shortcomings ranging from simple syntactical errors over logical inconsisten...

Online environments are increasingly used as platforms to support and enhance learning experiences. In higher education, students enroll in programs that are usually formed of a set of courses and modules. Such courses are designed to cover a set of concepts and achieve specific learning objectives that count towards the related degree. However we observe that connections among courses and the ...

Cross lingual querying of financial and business data from multilingual sources requires that inherent challenges posed by the diversity of financial concepts and languages used in different jurisdictions be addressed. Ontologies can be used to semantically align financial concepts and integrate financial facts with other company information from multilingual, semi-structured and unstructured O...

Linked Open Data consists of a large set of structured data knowledge bases which have been linked together, typically using equivalence statements. These equivalences usually take the form of owl:sameAs statements linking individuals, but links between classes are far less common Often, the lack of linking between classes is because the relationships cannot be described as elementary one to on...

An increasing amount of data is published on the Web according to the Linked Open Data (LOD) principles. End users would like to browse these data in a flexible manner. In this paper we focus on similaritybased browsing and we introduce a novel method for computing the similarity between two entities of a given RDF/S graph. The distinctive characteristics of the proposed metric is that it is ge...

Important classes of graph grammars have infinite state spaces and therefore cannot be verified with traditional model checking techniques. One way to address this problem is to perform graph abstraction, which allows us to generate a finite abstract state space that over-approximates the original one. In previous work we developed the theory of neighbourhood abstraction. In this paper, we pres...

Enterprise data models (EDM) have been designated as a wellestablished approach in order to define a common way for communication and interoperability within an organization and across the industry. In recent years, business areas can also profit by the concept of Big Data, thus achieving effective management of massive amount of data. In this paper, we propose an example of how a data model ca...