Design: The procedure for record linkage has three major components—data standardization, weight estimation, and matching. The proposed method was designed to incorporate a combination of exact and probabilistic matching techniques. Measurements: The procedure was validated using convergent, divergent, and criterion validity measures. Results: The output of the process achieved a sensitivity of...

The proliferation of heterogeneous sources of instances raises a research issue of achieving interoperability through instance matching. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for ontology instance matching by considering the semantic links associated to a particular instance. An instance is specified explicitly with the help of linked concepts, properties and their values in a neighb...

A new genus and species of Hypselosomatinae (Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha), Hypsotsijilia bretoni Cifuentes-Ruiz Brailovsky gen. nov., sp. nov. is herein described based on a female specimen. It represents the first fossil record Schizopteridae in early Miocene amber from Chiapas, Mexico. compared with related taxa estuarine paleoenvironment discussed, matching one previously cited for subfamil...

We describe the use of clinical data present in the medical record to determine the relevance of research evidence from literature databases. We studied the effect of using automated knowledge approaches as compared to physician’s selection of articles, when using a traditional information retrieval system. Three methods were evaluated. The first method identified terms and their semantics and ...

Development of task-specific electronic medical record (EMR) searches and user interfaces has the potential to improve the efficiency and safety of health care while curbing rising costs. The development of such tools must be data-driven and guided by a strong understanding of practitioner information requirements with respect to specific clinical tasks or scenarios. To acquire this important d...

language is a system and every system has rules that govern the structure of its vocabulary. the rules of the arabic language are based on the vowels that consistent with the meanings used in the context represent the words' position. there are some basic rules in addition to vowels which are mostly seen in the written texts. one of these rules is the matching rule that refers to the condi...

background: one of the challenges of pet/mri combined systems is to derive an attenuation map to correct the pet image. for that, the pseudo-ct image could be used to correct the attenuation. until now, most existing scientific researches construct this pseudo-ct image using the registration techniques. however, these techniques suffer from the local minima of the non-rigid deformation energy f...

the purpose of the matching interdiction problem in a weighted graph is to findtwo vertices such that the weight of the maximum matching in the graph withoutthese vertices is minimized. an approximate solution for this problem has beenpresented. in this paper, we consider dendrimers as graphs such that the weightsof edges are the bond lengths. we obtain the maximum matching in some types ofdend...

Schema matching is a critical step in many applications, such as data warehouse loading, Online Analytical Process (OLAP), Data mining, semantic web [2] and schema integration. This task is defined for finding the semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas. Recently, schema matching has found considerable interest in both research and practice. In this paper, we present a new impr...

Distributed real time architecture of an embedded system is often described as a set of communicating components. Such a system is both data ow (for its description) and time-triggered (for its execution). This thesis ts in with these problematics and focuses on the control of the time compatibility of a set of interdependent data used by the components of the system. The architecture of a comp...