This paper gives an overview of Personal Name Matching. Personal name matching is of great importance for all applications that deal with personal names. The problem with personal names is that they are not unique and sometimes even for one name many variations exist. This leads to the fact that databases on the one hand may have several entries for one and the same person and on the other hand...

9.1 A health care system is part of a wider social order. Developments in health care cannot, therefore, be separated from their social context and the broader effects they may have. It is difficult to predict how social attitudes and institutions will respond to xenotransplantation, should it become introduced as a clinical treatment. It is important to consider what these responses might be, ...

We examine the principles of personal information management in a social context and introduce OpnTag, an open source web application for note taking and book marking developed to experiment with these principles. We present the design motivation and technical structure of OpnTag, along with a discussion of how it supports our design philosophy. We also describe a few examples of how it is actu...

All nature is a continuum. The endless complexity of life is organized into patterns which repeat themselves—theme and variations—at each level of system. These similarities and differences are proper concerns for science. From the ceaseless streaming of protoplasm to the many-vectored activities of supranational systems, there are continuous flows through living systems as they maintain their ...

The increasing number of media creation devices is adding to the organization and media management problem for personal media. Content describing metadata is seen as the most prominent answer to this problem. However, current metadata standards have shortcomings when it comes to the domain of personal media. This is because the standards are designed for public and professional uses of media an...

abstract personal knowledge management has been developed in various fields such as knowledge management, personal information management, communication psychology and philosophy of science, management, communications, and so a lot of research to a few experimental or approved about (pkm) is a research that the original data is just a few pages. so research in this area seems to be very focused...

in addition to drawing attention to the individual and social responsibilities, the holy qur’ān has also talked about the importance of the social groups and emphasized on the efficacy of groups on individuals and other groups and the impressionability of those individuals and other groups. in the meantime, the reference groups have a significant role in the development and degeneration of indi...

investigating and ranking the stressor factors on employees’ job performance in urmia university of medical sciences staff heidarisani m , vahedi m , rahimi gh , rahimi b * received: 25 aug , 2013 accepted: 28 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: stress and its effect is a significant problem in all organizations therefore employees and even human are living with it in recent decade. the purp...