An important problem faced by users of large networks is how to discover resources of interest, such as data or people. In this paper we focus on locating people with particular interests or expertise. The usual approach is to build interest group lists from explicitly registered data. However, doing so assumes one knows what lists should be built, and who should be included in each list. We pr...

The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable Internet application environment that enables people and roles to effectively capture, publish, share and manage explicit knowledge resources. As an important function of the e-Science Knowledge Grid, this paper proposes an approach to effectively push scientific documents within research teams by detecting the social characteristics in self-...

There is a small but important group of epileptics who live in the epileptic colonies and also at St Faith's Hospital, Brentwood, which is the sole remaining National Health Service Hospital dealing exclusively with epileptic patients. St David's Hospital, Edmonton, was a similar hospital for male epileptics, but it was amalgamated with St Faith's Hospital several years ago. Altogether about 30...

(VHA) is an interdisciplinary group authorized by the Under Secretary for Health through the National Center for Ethics in Health Care. The NEC produces reports on timely topics that are of significant concern to practicing health care professionals. Each report describes an ethical issue, summarizes its historical context, discusses its relevance to VHA, reviews current controversies, and outl...

We developed a new process to identify and test options for improving governance arrangements for biodiversity conservation. Governance encapsulates the processes through which people share power and responsibilities as decisions are made: by whom, for whom, and in whose interests. These processes create the formal and informal rules that frame and direct human action, including the actions of ...

BACKGROUND Many stakeholders have little or no confidence in the ability of the public to express their opinions on health policy issues. The claim often arises that lay people prioritize according to their own personal experiences and may lack the broad perspective necessary to understand the needs of the population at large. In order to test this claim empirically, this study compares the pub...

Swanson and Colman provide a muchneeded analysis of associations between exposure to suicide and suicidality outcomes among Canadian youth. Youth suicide in Canada cannot be fully understood without consideration of First Nations, Inuit or Métis populations. Some researchers conclude that suicide among Aboriginal people must be considered a different disease from suicide among non-Aboriginal pe...