This paper highlights challenges in industrial research related to translating research in natural language processing into commercial products. While the interest in natural language processing from industry is significant, the transfer of research to commercial products is non-trivial and its challenges are often unknown to or underestimated by many researchers. I discuss current obstacles an...

Government policies on the acquisition of software-intensive systems have recently undergone a significant shift in emphasis toward the use of existing commercial products. Some Requests for Proposals (RFPs) now include a mandate concerning the amount of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products that must be included. This interest in COTS products is based on a number of factors, not least of w...

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding about the use of embedded open source software in commercial telecommunication products. This paper applies concepts of value-creating systems to sourcing and use of open source software. In value creating systems, open source software communities do not operate in similar way as companies. Differences derive from organizational culture, va...

The intentional use of mercury (Hg) in products and processes ("commercial Hg") has contributed a large and previously unquantified anthropogenic source of Hg to the global environment over the industrial era, with major implications for Hg accumulation in environmental reservoirs. We present a global inventory of commercial Hg uses and releases to the atmosphere, water, soil, and landfills fro...

AlliedSignal, Inc. Near-net-shape gelcasting process that Commercialization likely. is safer and less costly than conventional gelcasting based on acrylamide, a cumulative neurotoxin-demonstrated by making structural ceramic parts for very high-temperature applications. BioTraces, Inc. Multiphoton detection (MPD) technology— Licensee PetroTraces: applications of the demonstrated in enhanced imm...

Many different agents, including mineral oil and silicone, have the capacity to act as immunological adjuvants, i.e., they can contribute to the activation of the immune system. Some adjuvants, including mineral oil, are known to induce arthritis in certain strains of rats after intradermal injection or percutaneous application. The aim of this study was to determine if common commercial cosmet...

Government policies on the acquisition of software-intensive systems have recently undergone a significant shift in emphasis toward the use of existing commercial products. Some Requests for Proposals (RFPs) now include a mandate concerning the amount of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products that must be included. This interest in COTS products is based on a number of factors, not least of w...

Government policies on the acquisition of software-intensive systems have recently undergone a significant shift in emphasis toward the use of existing commercial products. Some Requests for Proposals (RFPs) now include a mandate concerning the amount of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products that must be included. This interest in COTS products is based on a number of factors, not least of w...

to the editor: The discussion in Images in Clinical Medicine by Hylton and Goldberg (July 8 issue)1 implies that the circumpapillary retinal ridge is pathognomonic for the shaken-baby syndrome. This belief was widely held among ophthalmologists, pediatricians, and forensic pathologists until it was recently challenged.2,3 Two studies used a process associated with evidence-based medicine to eva...

One way to exploit the CLEF-ER challenge results is to semi-automatically enrich the multi-lingual terminology provided to the CLEF-ER participants. In the current version, English is the predominant language (1.8 m synonyms in 531k concepts). Synonyms in other languages are clearly underrepresented (Spanish: 643k, French: 127k, German: 119k and Dutch: 116k). Two leading text mining companies, ...