Microbial metabolism drives our planet's biogeochemistry and plays a central role in industrial processes. Molecular profiling in bioreactors has revealed that microbial community composition can be highly variable while maintaining constant functional performance. Furthermore, following perturbation bioreactor performance typically recovers rapidly, while community composition slowly returns t...

A first intuitive hypothesis, regularly supported by IS academics, states that IS research delivered by universities and university research centers tends to be more rigorous. The leading academic researchers in the field rarely quote research results from market research or consulting companies, at least not after completing the introduction of their texts. On the other hand, the majority of c...

Host-enemy interactions are vital mechanisms that explain the success or failure of invasive plants in new ranges. We surveyed the defoliation of invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides and co-occurring native plants on two islands during different seasons over three consecutive years and measured the leaf nitrogen content and the C/N ratio of each plant species. To evaluate the effects of herbivo...

Shared Workspaces are getting more and more popular in helping people collaborate. However, it’s difficult for user to search information across different Shared Workspaces since they are currently islands that are not interlinked. Based on semantic web technologies, SIOC provide ontology and tools to interlink online communities. By using SIOC to develop an explorer for Shared Workspaces, we m...

This paper describes how we extended the SIOC ontology to take into account particular aspects of wikis in order to enable integration capabilities between various wiki systems. In particular, we will overview the proposed extensions and detail a webservice providing SIOC data from any MediaWiki instance, as well as related query examples that show how different wikis, designed as independant d...

Principles that provide general normative frameworks in bioethics have been criticized since the late 1980s, when several different methods and types of moral philosophy began to be proposed as alternatives or substitutes. Several accounts have emerged in recent years, including: (1) Impartial Rule Theory (supported in this issue by K. Danner Clouser), (2) Casuistry (supported in this issue by ...