The terminology used in Biomedicine shows lexical peculiarities that have required the elaboration of terminological resources and information retrieval systems with specific functionalities. The main characteristics are the high rates of synonymy and homonymy, due to phenomena such as the proliferation of polysemic acronyms and their interaction with common language. Information retrieval syst...

the current state of whitefish population and their organisms have been investigated in subarctic lake chuna exposed to long-term air pollution from copper-nickel industry. both annual and long-term heavy metals and acid oxides loads on the lake have been determined. a qualitative assessment has been made for water and bottom sediments. the investigation results have been compared with those of...

The role of the users and their needs are now recognized in the database community. Many efforts are devoted to improve the quality of the interaction between the user and the database. For designing better interfaces that make the systems more usable, the use of suitable metaphors is crucial. The problem we address in this paper is whether an appropriate notion of metaphor can be tailored to t...

Multidimensional databases play a relevant role in statistical and scientific applications, as well as in business intelligence systems. Their users express complex OLAP queries, often returning huge volumes of facts, sometimes providing little or no information. Thus, expressing preferences could be highly valuable in this domain. The OLAP domain is representative of an unexplored class of pre...

A case of unrecognized widespread dermatophyte infection associated with ichthyosis vulgaris and atopy is described. Our patient was a young woman in which the diagnosis of ichthyosis vulgaris and atopic dermatitis blocked the recognition of widespread dermatophyte infection for more than six months. The case showed some clinical peculiarities in terms of both extent of lesions and their clinic...

The magnesium-rich intermetallic compounds RETMg2 (RE = La, Pr, Nd; T = Ni, Pd, Pt) were obtained by melting of the elements in sealed tantalum ampoules and subsequent annealing. Their structures have been characterized on the basis of powder X-ray diffraction. The RETMg2 phases crystallize with the orthorhombic MgCuAl2-type structure, space group Cmcm. The crystal chemical peculiarities are br...

Physical-Technical Institute, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhevsk, Russia This work deals with the analysis of peculiarities of formation of the hyperfine fields (HFF) at the Fe nuclei in disordered alloys metalmetalloid using the ”first-principles” calculations. Some phenomenological models and justification of their usage for the interpretation of the experimental HFF distribu...