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There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders-representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers-have come together t...

Both established and emergent business rely heavily on data, chiefly those that wish to become game changers. The current biggest source of data is the Web, where there is a large amount of sparse data. The Web, where th...

This book provides an excellent foundation for the principles of database and data management. It explains some of the more difficult concepts fairly well. The book is meant for an introductory course in database managem...

PhyML is a phylogeny software based on the maximum-likelihood principle. Early PhyML versions used a fast algorithm performing nearest neighbor interchanges to improve a reasonable starting tree topology. Since the origi...

In Bluetooth networks, devices are organized into small piconets and large scatternets, and each node acts as the role of master, slave or gateway. Due to dynamic topology changes, different bandwidth available and unpre...

Wireless Technologies have allowed a fast growing of the Internet service in both public and private environments where wireless networks mostly consist of nodes interconnected with a fixed infrastruc- ture; nevertheless...

Quality of Service is a sought after feature to handle isochronal signals in data networks. In the cases in which currently used techniques such as best effort are not sufficient, it becomes relevant to analyze Class of ...

"Moving object (MO) data representation and computing have received a fair share of attention over recent years from the database community. Replacing raw trajectory data (i.e., MO positions at different time instants) b...

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments for the Second Edition. Acknowledgments for the First Edition. 1. Introduction and Preview. 1.1 Preview of the Book. 2. Entropy, Relative Entro...

The first edition of this book has established itself as one of the leading references on generalized additive models (GAMs), and the only book on the topic to be introductory in nature with a wealth of practical example...

BACKGROUND: Approximately 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, which puts them at greater risk for poorer access to care and poorer health outcomes. PURPOSE: To update a 2004 systematic review and determine...

BACKGROUND: Global and regional projections of mortality and burden of disease by cause for the years 2000, 2010, and 2030 were published by Murray and Lopez in 1996 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project. These...

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) so...

"The rapid spread, high mortality rate, and hospital overcrowding made the SARS-CoV-2 virus a significant challenge for humanity. The emergent situation urgently called for investments in vaccine development as a critica...

ABSTRACT We investigate the determinants of capital structure choice by analyzing the financing decisions of public firms in the major industrialized countries. At an aggregate level, firm leverage is fairly similar acro...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a basic molecular biology technique with a multiplicity of uses, including deoxyribonucleic acid cloning and sequencing, functional analysis of genes, diagnosis of diseases, genotyping ...

STUDY DESIGN: The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) has become one of the principal condition-specific outcome measures used in the management of spinal disorders. This review is based on publications using the ODI identif...

This FAIRsharing record describes: The ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) guidelines are intended to improve the reporting of research using animals - maximising information published and minimising ...

This paper discusses the main lines used to model intelligent agents that will operate in a Collaborative Online Learning Environment-COLE. The aim of COLE is to evaluate the contribution that Information Technology and ...

On a shelf in the sunny, open-plan o ice of Cochrane Australia in Melbourne, there's a large, white ring-binder that, it's fair to say, hasn't been opened in a while.It's a printed copy of the original, 1994 edition of t...