the human population has been growing at least at the rate of 1.2% annually since 1960 reachingup to 6.4b in 2002 and more than 7.0b in 2012. in davao city, the annual population growth rate is running at 3.22%in year 1990, at 2.41% last 2007 and recently in 2013 at 2.36%. the alarming problem we confront today is thatthe increase in land area for human use does not expand in proportion to popu...

This empirical study of opportunities for learning in a hospital contributes to the discussion of learning at work and particularly the notion of workplace learning as a horizontal community. Horizontal communities, although focused as such in existing literature, are found to be scarce in this study due to division of labor and physical layout. The horizontal communities seldom reach the in si...

Software engineering is still a relatively young field, struggling to develop consistent standards and methods across the domain. For a given project, developers can choose from dozens of models, tools, platforms, and languages for specification, design, implementation, and testing. The globalization of software engineering and the rise of Open Source further complicate the issues as firms now ...

The human population has been growing at least at the rate of 1.2% annually since 1960 reachingup to 6.4B in 2002 and more than 7.0B in 2012. In Davao City, the annual population growth rate is running at 3.22%in year 1990, at 2.41% last 2007 and recently in 2013 at 2.36%. The alarming problem we confront today is thatthe increase in land area for human use does not expand in proportion to popu...

Understanding the processes that influence the structure of biotic communities is one of the major ecological topics, and both stochastic and deterministic processes are expected to be at work simultaneously in most communities. Here, we investigated the vertical distribution patterns of bacterial communities in a 10-m-long soil core taken within permafrost of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. To get ...

We experimentally manipulated mussel community structure and observed mussel burrowing behavior in mesocosms held in a greenhouse. Vertical positions, vertical movements, and horizontal movements of Actinonaias ligamentina, Amblema plicata, Fusconaia flava, and Obliquaria reflexa were recorded during five 11-d trials. Community structure was manipulated by constructing communities with 11 diffe...

We present a novel analytical method for assessing spatial and temporal structure in community samples that is useful for comparing large data-sets that include species abundance data. The model assumes that species numbers in two samples are drawn from a bi-variate Poisson log-normal species abundance distribution and parameters from the fitted distribution are estimated to assess community st...

Community forestry offers potential for socioeconomic benefits while maintaining ecosystem services. In Mexico, government and donor efforts to develop this sector focus on issues within forest communities. Often overlooked are effects of external non-government actors (NGOs and foresters) as links or barriers between communities and funding, capacity building, and technical support. To analyze...

This paper reports on our ongoing work regarding opinion mining from Web-based discussion forums in the realm of the Understanding Advertising (UAd) project. Our approach to opinion mining is to first RDFise discussion forums in SIOC, and in a second phase to interlink the so created data with linked datasets such as DBpedia. We are confident that this should allow a market researcher to formul...