Background: Opportunities to use data and information to address challenges in international agricultural research and development are expanding rapidly. The use of agricultural trial and evaluation data has enormous potential to improve crops and management practices. However, for a number of reasons, this potential has yet to be realized. This paper reports on the experience of the AgTrials i...

We experimentally demonstrate a protocol for entanglement distribution by a separable quantum system. In our experiment, two spatially separated modes of an electromagnetic field get entangled by local operations, classical communication, and transmission of a correlated but separable mode between them. This highlights the utility of quantum correlations beyond entanglement for the establishmen...

PURPOSE This study aimed to identify the types of drug information resources used by community pharmacists in daily practice in Penang, Malaysia. METHOD A cross-sectional based survey was conducted among randomly selected community pharmacists in Penang state, Malaysia. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science Students SPSS 13®. Face-to-face interviews were conducted...

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Improvement of informative and telecommunication technologies have caused to create much heterogeneous information. In addition with increasing various information resources in ontology formats, the importance of managing these heterogeneous resources is increased. Despite most matchers use different measures for finding the mappings, some semantic inconsistencies in final alignment are inevita...

Given the increasing cooperation between organizations, the flexible exchange of security information across the allied organizations is critical to effectively manage information systems (IS) security in a distributed environment. In this paper, we develop a cooperative model for IS security risk management in a distributed environment. In the proposed model, the exchange of security informati...

The Internet globally connects a great deal of diverse and heterogeneous information resources, which an agent can dynamically combine in order to synthesise new information. An agent society is used to facilitate a common project within globally distributed, heterogeneous organisations. Besides coordinating a finite number of variables, the agents are used to iron out cultural differences with...

With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, it has become very important to provide advanced tools for maintaining referential integrity of information resources. The growing tendency toward building increasingly complex Web sites makes it necessary to maintain not only physical files, but also logical resources, or views, which are composed of references to other resources and presentation p...

Janice Hansen & Lindsey E. Richland Department of Education University of California, Irvine Eric P. S. Baumer Information Science Cornell University William Tomlinson Information Technology University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT While much work has examined how students think and and learn with metaphors, relatively little research has focused on thinking about metaphors, that is, thinking ...