The aim of the present study was to develop titles of Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes (ND/NO) through the relationship between the terms of the Focus axis, limited to the Circulatory System Process, and the terms of other ICNP® axes and to integrate these terms into an ontology. Titles were developed linking 17 terms of the focus axis, which were evaluated by expert nurses in five Brazilian citi...

Introduction Version 1.0 of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) was released by the International Council of Nurses in 2005, building on previous versions (i.e. α, β and β2). ICNP® is described as “a unified nursing language system. It is a compositional terminology for nursing practice that facilitates the development of and the cross-mapping among local terms and exi...

CONCLUSIONS At least 12 standardized terminologies represent the domain of nursing knowledge; each having unique, implicit ontologies that describe nursing diagnoses, interventions, and /or outcomes. The need for interoperability across systems supports the development of a uniform blended ontology, based on common semantic interpretation. To attain the goals of data reuse and interoperability,...

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...

alain badiou is one of the leading contemporary thinkers whose ideas in philosophy have seriously influenced theological discourse. his thought mainly relies on two pillars, ontology and theory of the event. based on these ideas, he tries to remove religious/spiritual elements of contemporary thought. with his novel mathematical ontology of multiple, he tries to categorize and criticize all the...