This paper describes a music browsing assistance service, Songrium (http://songrium.jp), which enables visualization and exploration of large amounts of user-generated music content with the aim of enhancing user experiences in enjoying music. Such a huge amount of usergenerated content has yielded “web-native music”, which we define as musical pieces that are published, shared, and remixed (ha...

(18)O/(16)O ratios from the juices of a number of fruits and vegetables were measured and found to be isotopically more enriched than the water in which they grew. Fast-growing high-water-content vegetables exhibited less enrichment than slower growing fruits such as apples, pears, and plums. (18)O/(16)O measurements were also made on the water from various sections of several plants, and the e...

Metadata aggregation is a task increasingly encountered in many projects involving data repositories. The small number of specialized software for this task indicates that in most cases customized software is used to perform aggregation, which in turn relates to the highly complex tasks and architectures involved. In this paper, the metadata and object repository aggregator (MORe) is presented,...

Twitter, due to its massive growth as a social networking platform, has been in focus for the analysis of its user generated content for personalization and recommendation tasks. A common challenge across these tasks is identifying user interests from tweets. Semantic enrichment of Twitter posts, to determine user interests, has been an active area of research in the recent past. These approach...

The descriptions of various entities on Linked Data repositories are subject to constant renewals and modifications, with respect to both the descriptions of concepts and relations and entities realizing their instantiations. Thus, the underlying ontologies have to be updated accordingly in order to reflect these changes. This paper presents a system for examining the possibilities of discoveri...

Carotenoids and alpha-tocopherol are dietary, lipophilic antioxidants that may protect plasma lipoproteins from oxidation, a process believed to contribute to atherogenesis. Previous work demonstrated that after the Cu(II)-initiated oxidation of human low density lipoprotein (LDL) in vitro, carotenoids and alpha-tocopherol were destroyed before significant lipid peroxidation took place, and tha...

We demonstrate the feasibility of quantifying the abundance of 2H in plasma by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. After adding internal standard (tert-butyl-d9 alcohol) to deproteinized plasma samples containing 2H2O, we determined the ratio of NMR peak areas for 2H2O and tert-butyl-d9 alcohol. This peak-area ratio was directly proportional to the exogenous 2H enrichment of plasma (...

This EnviLOD deliverable reports on the quantitative evaluation of the LODIE automatic semantic enrichment algorithm. Firstly, we outline the LODIE approach for LOD-based semantic enrichment of metadata and full-text scientific articles. Secondly, the methods are evaluated, both quantitatively and qualitatively by our British Library users. For the latter, semantic search queries are compared a...

In this paper we propose utilizing of topic maps as an integration tool for Connexions1 content aiming at creating more subject-oriented, knowledgebased ways of connecting resources in the Connexions repository. We discuss to what extent and how open content, including metadata, may be extracted from Connexions e-learning modules and mapped onto topic maps using XSLT transformations and how thi...

the influence of 0-27 g/100g of full-fat soy flour (ffsf), 31-35g/100g of water content and extrusion conditions on the textural characteristics of spaghetti were evaluated. process was performed with screw speed of 10-40 rpm and water circulating temperature of 35-70°c. this enrichment resulted in significant differences in mechanical strength and cutting parameter. based on the mixture surfac...