We propose a knowledge-based entrepreneurial (KBE) approach for business intelligence in strategic technologies at industrial sectors. The KBE approach is at the convergence of business intelligence and knowledge management and is used for advising users in business decisions and potential risks. Our approach comprises both a technology roadmap model as well as a knowledge-based entrepreneurial...

Application ontologies for biodiversity and biomedical specimen data are being developed within the OBO Foundry framework. Both the Biological Collections Ontology (BCO) and the Ontologized Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing (OMIABIS) are ontologies rooted in specimens and the need to track, share and query data about specimens. In this paper, we briefly describe the structure of th...

fabrication, characterization and application of micro-/nano-rods/wires are among the hottest topics in materials science and applied physics. micro-/nano-rod-based structures and devices are developed for a wide-ranging use in various fields of micro-/nanoscience (e.g. biology, electronics, medicine, optics, optoelectronics, photonics and sensors). it is well known that the structure and prope...

Biomedical polymer-silicate nanocomposites have potential to become critically important to the development of biomedical applications, ranging from diagnostic and therapeutic devices, tissue regeneration and drug delivery matrixes to various biotechnologies that are inspired by biology but have only indirect biomedical relation. The fundamental understanding of polymer-nanoparticle interaction...

Bio-fertilizers are naturally occurring soil bacteria that aggressively colonize plant roots and benefit plants by providing growth promotion. This investigation was aimed at determining the effect of Nitroxin bio-fertilizer application on growth, inoculation and yield production of corn hybrids. An experiment was conducted as split plot on the basis of randomized complete block design with fou...

Current semiconductor technology is projected to reach its physical limit in about a decade. To satisfy the ever-growing consumer desire for small, high-speed, low-power, and “all-in-one” devices, scientists and engineers are actively seeking solutions to continue technology trends into the future. Nanotechnology, with wide electronics applications, promises breakthroughs for the future. The fu...

The need for semantically precise domain descriptions has given raise to an increasing number of so-called bio-ontologies covering different fields of biology and medicine. Examples are the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA)[5], the Gene Ontology [3] and the Open Biological Ontologies [6]. There are several examples of the conversion of biomedical ontologies into T-Boxes [2, 7, 1, 8] in order ...

Surface layer as the outer protective coverage of bacteria and archaea are two-dimensional crystalline and symmetrical arrays of proteins that recently attract a lot of attention for biologist scientists. The surface layers of bacteria are usually 5 to 10 nm in diameter and represent highly porous protein lattices with uniform size and morphology with the pore sizes of 2 to 8 nm. The crucial an...