Microchannels are currently being used in many areas and have high potential for applications in many other areas. The application areas include Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), microfuidics such as microchannel heat sinks for cooling micro-chips and laser diode arrays, LabOn-Chip devices for chemical and bio-medical analyses, biotechnology, telecommunications, metrology, computer techn...

A sample containing 1,373 citations were taken from three American and three French agronomic journals and analyzed to provide information on the age, languages, origins, and types of literature used by American and French agronomists. Of the American citations, 97.7% were in English and 77.5% were of North American origin. French agronomists used a significantly higher proportion of literature...

The overabundance of literature available in online repositories is an ongoing challenge for scientists that have to efficiently manage and analyze content for their information needs. Most of the existing literature management systems merely provide support for storing bibliographical metadata, tagging, and simple annotation capabilities. In this demo paper, we go beyond these approaches by de...

Bibliographical data such as title, author, affiliation, and abstract are crucial for indexing biomedical journal articles. The Medical Article Records System (MARS) has been developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to automate bibliographical data extraction for MEDLINE®, the NLM’s premier database of citations to the biomedical literature. The automatic extraction of bibliographic ...

This study aimed to identify the research gaps in Metaheuristics, taking into account publications entered a database 2015 and present case of company Sul Fluminense region using Desirability function. To achieve this goal, applied exploratory nature qualitative approach was carried out, as well another quantitative nature. As method technical procedures were bibliographical research, some lite...

This paper is the outcome of a bibliographical review that aims at systemizing references in the literature to concepts involved in the training and work processes of community health agents under the Community Health Agent Program (PACS) and the Family Health Program. Published in scientific journals, manuals and official documents through to October 2004, 504 articles were consulted, of which...