Building Infrastructure to Train Medical Oncologists

Building Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure

The author in the first part would like to share his experiences of a European Union sponsored LEONARDO da VINCI project – Land Information Management for Executives (LIME) co-ordinated by the College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary (GEO). The LIME outcomes were a knowledge resource centre and an Internet-supported distributed education service for the Hungarian Land Administratio...

Is Medical Application Software a New Strategy for Oncologists?

GeoCorpora: building a corpus to test and train microblog geoparsers

In this article, we present the GeoCorpora corpus building framework and software tools as well as a geo-annotated Twitter corpus built with these tools to foster research and development in the areas of microblog/Twitter geoparsing and geographic information retrieval. The developed framework employs crowdsourcing and geovisual analytics to support the construction of large corpora of text in ...

Building a Modular Authorization Infrastructure

Authorization infrastructures manage privileges and render access control decisions, allowing applications to adjust their behavior according to the privileges allocated to users. This paper describes the PERMIS role based authorization infrastructure along with its conceptual authorisation, access control, and trust models. PERMIS has the novel concept of a credential validation service, which...

Well-being among Italian medical oncologists: an exploratory study.

BACKGROUND Recently, attention has been focused on physicians' stress and quality-of-life improvement. Due to their relationship with patients, oncologists in particular are overloaded physically, emotionally and psychologically. Previous studies showed that training of communication skills improves the satisfaction and well-being of physicians and patients. AIMS Our research investigates the...