The aim of this paper is to present some methods to expand user queries and a performance evaluation to retrieve public procurement notices in the e-Procurement sector using semantics and linking open data. Taking into account that public procurement notices contain information variables like type of contract, region, duration, total value, target enterprise, etc. di erent methods can be applie...

Notifying users about a system’s data practices is supposed to enable users to make informed privacy decisions. Yet, current notice and choice mechanisms, such as privacy policies, are often ineffective because they are neither usable nor useful, and are therefore ignored by users. Constrained interfaces on mobile devices, wearables, and smart home devices connected in an Internet of Things exa...

In the absence of Professor Huxley's long promised manual of the elements of physiology, Mr. Angell's little volume may be read with advantage by those who desire to be made acquainted with the rudiments of the science of life. A great many works of a similar class have been published from time to time during the last three or four years, of which two, Dr. Lawson's popular manual and Mr. Shea's...

Wo have been so inundated of late with works on digestion and indigestion, that when we see a new treatise we are disposed to wonder whether it contains a particle of new matter. Dr. Wilson Fox's book purports to be a step in a somewhat novel direction, viz., an effort to link together the treatment and the pathology of stomach affections. The author is Professor of Pathological Anatomy in Univ...