While the Web has become a worldwide platform for communication, terrorists share their ideology and communicate with members on the “Dark Web”—the reverse side of the Web used by terrorists. Currently, the problems of information overload and difficulty to obtain a comprehensive picture of terrorist activities hinder effective and efficient analysis of terrorist information on the Web. To impr...

introduction: health care classifications are essential tools for collecting and processing health-related information. they also provide a unified language for interdisciplinary communications. nursing data is important for extension of knowledge, evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing care, and supporting human resource planning. therefore, an integrated system for collecting, st...

abstract aim and background: primary maladaptive schemas are  main pattern of many personality disorders, comparison of primary maladaptive schemas can prepare a strong credit for schematherapy. the purpose of the present study was to determine the dominant schemas and comparison of early maladaptive schemas in avoidant personality disorders patients and normal individuals.   methods and materi...

This paper seeks to address the sharp increase in public debate about privacy issues, particularly on the issues of Internet privacy and the value of personal information. The research questions we are addressing here are – How should an Internet Service Provider (ISP) price its service given that the consumers vary in their valuation for privacy and also vary in terms of the value of their per...

INTRODUCTION Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is an assessment instrument that is known worldwide. It is widely used for rating the severity of illness. Results from evaluations in psychiatry should characterize the patients. Rating of GAF is based on collected information. The aim of the study is to identify the factors involved in collecting information that is relevant for rating GAF, ...

Linked Open University Data applies semantic web and linked data technology to university data scenario, aiming at building interlinked semantic data around university information, providing possibility for unified innerand interschool information query and comparison. This paper proposes a general process of building linked open university data, with procedures covering choosing datasets and v...

We propose in this paper a general framework for collecting and processing data from various sources of information. An advantage of our framework over traditional data mining frameworks is the ability to collect nuggets of information from sources encoded in different formats. We can handle documents or fragments of knowledge written in natural language (open structure documents), XML-like dat...

Retrieving information from social networks is the first and primordial step many data analysis fields such as Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning. Important data science tasks relay on historical data gathering for further predictive results. Most of the recent works use Twitter API, a public platform for collecting public streams of information, which allows q...