This paper represents a discussion of the fundamental principles of DNA technology as it applies to forensic testing. A brief overview of DNA science will be given to clarify the terminology and techniques described for forensic and basic analysis. A historical as well as scientific discussion of the molecular biological tools used to determine DNA profiles and database analysis following such ...

Nobody envisioned in 1955, when Eugene Garfield introduced the concept of impact factor (IF) as ametric tomeasure the average number of citations published in a particular scientific journal (Garfield 1955), that this simple mathematically based idea would eventually be completely blown out of proportion. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, the definition of IF for a specific journal is ...

A discussion of the recent information regarding the terminology, clinical manifestations and epidemiology of the periodontal disease termed Localized Juvenile Periodontitis (LJP) is presented in the context of newer scientific advances. Emphasis is given to the microbiological and immunological parameters associated with the etiology of the disease previously referred to as Periodontosis. Newe...

The paper provides an introduction to agent-based modelling and simulation of social processes. Reader is introduced to the worldview underlying agent-based models, some basic terminology, basic properties of agent-based models, as well as to what one can and what cannot expect from such models, particularly when they are applied to social-scientific investigation. Special attention is given to...

This demonstration presents a tool (TExtractor) employed for enriching terminology sets in four languages: English, French, German and Spanish. We present the associated linguistic resources and the experimental results obtained in the medical domain. TExtractor has been developed within project LIQUID (IST-2000-25324), which aims at developing a cost-effective solution for the problem of cross...

Various efforts have been made for the development of tools and methods dedicated to the automatic processing of multilingual terminology databases. For that purpose, multilingual parallel corpora have been used as a basis resource. However, most of the neologisms in technical and scientific domains are realised by multiword terms that are rarely identified in parallel corpora. In this paper, w...