COSH: a grass-roots public health movement.

Promoting health at the grass roots.

Grass-roots Class Alignment

Current ontology alignment practices adopt a centralized approach: the alignment task is carried out by a domain expert, possibly with the help of some ontology alignment tools. In a Peer-to-Peer environment, each end-user (peer) may explicitly or implicitly generate ontology alignments for their own purposes during its own use of the semantic data. This kind of end-user-generated ontology alig...

Marijuana as a treatment for epilepsy and multiple sclerosis? A "grass roots" movement.

The use of cannabis (marijuana) for medical purposes dates back almost five millennia. Western medicine publicly advocated marijuana’s medicinal properties in the mid-1800s; by the beginning of the 20th century, numerous articles in the medical literature recommended its use for a variety of disorders, including multiple neurologic conditions. The compound was available “over the counter” in ph...

Grass-roots Semantic Web Tools

One of the biggest challenges of the Semantic Web is to make its tools usable by ordinary users for grass-roots production and integration of semantic information. This paper introduces the ongoing research on this issue in our research group at the Information Sciences Institute. 1. RESEARCH OVERVIEW Despite years of intense work and research on the Semantic Web, it has not become a reality. O...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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