When one first discovers a book such as this, the naturally spontaneous and optimistic impression that arises is that a serious, top-level cooperation among non-conventional medicine experts and university researchers is finally getting under way in Italy, far from any sort of conflict of interests. And if one further considers that the results of this work have been acclaimed by a leading NCM/...

The Third Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) took place at the Congress Centre in Basel, Switzerland, from 7–9 September 2011. The theme of this meeting, which assembled more than 400 clinicians and researchers from many European countries as well as from North America, Asia and Australia, was ‘Neuropsychology across the Lifespan’. This theme gave the oppor...

Cyber-infrastructures have transformed the practice of research. Researchers can now access distributed data worldwide with the help of cyber-infrastructures. User support services play an important role to facilitate researchers to accomplish their research goals with the help of cyber-infrastructures. However, the current user-support practices in cyberinfrastructures are not properly organiz...

We present an experimental study of large-scale RDF federations on top of the Bio2RDF data sources, involving 29 data sets with more than four billion RDF triples deployed in a local federation. Our federation is driven by FedX, a highly optimized federation mediator for Linked Data. We discuss design decisions, technical aspects, and experiences made in setting up and optimizing the Bio2RDF fe...

In this paper, we demonstrate the possibility of predicting people’s hometowns by using their geotagged photos posted on Flickr website. We employ Kruskal’s algorithm to cluster photos taken by a user and predict the user’s hometown. Our results prove that using social profiles of photographers allows researchers to predict the locations of their taken photos with higher accuracies. This in ret...

The LOD Russia research project funded by the Ministry of Education aims to create a first Linked Open Data Set in Russia enabling scientists, researchers and commercial users to share, access, analyse and reuse knowledge related to scientific data. The position paper is highlighting challenges of the life-cycle management of LOD data, especially focuses on the process of entity linking and the...

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 39 How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well, but is there anything sturdier to rely on? Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psycho...

Community Informatics has declared that the global is a federation of locals. James Quilligan has written an essay to the effect that applying such a definition of global requires a world institution of democratic governance. Some members of the community of community informatics researchers have come to a similar conclusion. This essay outlines an alternative interpretation based on complex ad...