Attribution is a phenomenon of great interest and a principled treatment is important beyond the realm of newspaper articles. The way natural language has evolved to reflect our understanding of attribution in the form of reported speech can guide investigations into principled representations forming the basis for shallow text mining as well as belief revision or maintenance.

in recent years, shallow bark canker of walnut (juglandis regia l.) trees has become fairly widespread in iran. to determine the distribution of the disease in golestan, mazandaran and gilan provinces, from early summer to mid-fall seasons of 2004, more than one hundred bark samples were collected from walnut trees showing symptoms of shallow bark canker. sixty strains of bacteria were isolated...

The development process for the beta cell genomics application ontology (BCGO) is described. This process should be generally applicable and consists of integration of a subset of reference ontologies. A key element is use of the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI) as an ontology framework. Another element is enriching ontologies using existing patterns when needed. The ontology is vali...

In this paper results of a water quality modelling framework for riverine shallow lakes are presented. Based on investigations of interrelations between variables of freshwater quality by advanced time series analysis methods a process model for phosphorus remobilisation from lake sediments was developed. For predicting the changing water quality of shallow riverine lakes caused by internal pol...

A distance-based multivariate control chart is a useful tool for ecological monitoring to detect changes in biological community resulting from natural or anthropogenic disturbances at permanent monitoring sites. It is based on a matrix of any distances or dissimilarities among observations obtained from species composition and abundance data, and bootstrapping techniques are used to set upper ...

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