The identification of the scientific production and the evaluation of the researchers is a problem we are facing at present times. Bibliometric methods use mainly statistical tools and their results are of quantitative nature. Consequently, this approach does not provide any tools of qualitative evaluation. It is for this reason we suggest to examine the specific details of the bibliographic re...

Software security has blossomed nicely in the last few years with the appearance of new text books, new courses, and a government mandate, yet there are many people still to be educated. Savvy security people from the operations side tend to decry the cluelessness of software developers, putting the blame for our current software problems squarely on the shoulders of the "builders." However, bu...

The frequency with which clue cells could be detected in Gram-stained vaginal smears and/or cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smears was compared with the frequency of Corynebacterium vaginale (Haemophilus vaginalis) isolation in a group of 236 female patients, of whom 221 had vaginitis. Vaginal clue cells were found most often in women from whom C. vaginale was isolated (P = 0.00006) whereas, conver...

While efforts to address the management of chronic diseases in the context of large, urban hospitals are underway, the literature is silent on how to facilitate such efforts in the community clinics that provide services to many chronic-care patients who are medically underserved. We offer a contextualist framework for developing IT-enabled chronic care management in community clinics. To under...

Professor Plum was murdered in his new SMC science building office! Unfortunately, the killer was clever enough to eliminate most physical evidence of how the crime was committed. Your boss, Inspector Clouseau of Santa Monica Homicide has called in your team of forensic chemists to examine a blood stain found on the carpet under Professor Plum's desk for possible clues. It is hoped that chemica...

Three realities (mindscapes) used in constructing knowledge and their traditional research methodologies are discussed as a basis for proposing a research agenda and strategy for rural education. In order to study rural education, the authors propose the use of conceptual empiricism and contextual appraisal consisting of four domains; personal (self), instruction (class), institutional (school)...

This paper is a comment on Contextual Design, a method frame proposed by Beyer & Holtzblatt (1998) for redesigning work in conjunction with developing technological support for this work. It is scrutinized in which ways Contextual Design is a participatory approach and in which ways Contextual Design is suitable for capturing practices, meanings and challenges in the work environments to be red...

Automatic Construction of a Contextual Valence Shifters Lexicon The research presented in this paper takes place in the field of Opinion Mining, which is mainly devoted to assigning a positive or negative label to a text or a sentence. The context of a highly polarized word plays an essential role, as it can modify its original polarity. The present work addresses this issue and focuses on the ...

In opinion mining, many linguistic structures, called contextual valence shifters, may modify the prior polarity of items. Some systems of sentiment analysis have tried to take these shifters into account, but few studies have focused on the identification of all these structures and their impact

Designing 3D objects from scratch is difficult, especially when the user intent is fuzzy and lacks a clear target form. We facilitate design by providing reference and inspiration from existing model contexts. We rethink model design as navigating through different possible combinations of part assemblies based on a large collection of pre-segmented 3D models. We propose an interactive sketch-t...