PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of spirituality on the sense of well-being of people with lung cancer. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational study. SETTING Urban and rural oncology and radiation centers. SAMPLE 60 adults ranging from 33-83 years of age. Most participants had non-small cell lung cancer and were female, Caucasian, and older than 50. METHODS Participants completed a ...

Ontology is a term in philosophy and its meaning is “theory of existence''. Ontology is an explicit specification of conceptualization. Ontology is a body of knowledge describing some domain, typically common sense knowledge domain. This paper presents a survey of fifteen papers based on ontology. Discussion is made about ontologies used in web, mining and multi agent systems. Keywords— ontolog...

This paper attempts to describe and clarify the meaning of the term Decision Support (DS). Based on a survey of DSrelated WWW documents, and taking a broad view of DS, a classification of DS and related disciplines is presented. DS is put in the context of Decision Making, and some most important disciplines of DS are overviewed: Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems,...

Keywords are index terms that contain most important information. Automatic keyword extraction is the task to identify a small set of words , keyphrases or keywords from a document that can describe the meaning of document. Keyword extraction is considered as core technology of all automatic processing for text materials. In this paper, a Survey of Keyword Extraction techniques have been presen...

This paper provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of monetary poverty and nonmonetary deprivation may be constructed based on survey data such as from EU-SILC. For non-monetary deprivation, meaning dimensions or groupings of initial items of deprivation are identified using explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses, and a weighting system is applied for the aggregation individ...

This paper examines the topic of writing fault-tolerant MPI applications. We discuss the meaning of fault tolerance in general and what the MPI Standard has to say about it. We survey several approaches to this problem, namely checkpointing, restructuring a class of standard MPI programs, modifying MPI semantics, and extending the MPI specification. We conclude that within certain constraints, ...

To retrieve pictograms having semantically ambiguous interpretations, we propose a semantic relevance measure which uses pictogram interpretation words collected from a web survey. The proposed measure uses ratio and similarity information contained in a set of pictogram interpretation words to (1) retrieve pictograms having implicit meaning but not explicit interpretation word and (2) rank pic...

It is suggested that these questions involve a good deal of subjective thought. A survey of this type would require an experienced outside observer to spend at least one week with the doctor concerned. For the results to have meaning an adequate number of appropriately selected practices would have to be surveyed. In view of the importance of this subject, is it too much to ask that it should b...

Accurately representing the meaning of a piece of text, otherwise known as sentence modelling, is an important component in many natural language inference tasks. We survey the spectrum of these methods, which lie along two dimensions: input representation granularity and composition model complexity. Using this framework, we reveal in our quantitative and qualitative experiments the limitation...