OBJECTIVES The dissemination of health-related news through newspapers can influence the behavior of patients and of health care providers. We conducted a study to analyze the characteristics of health-related research published by two leading Brazilian newspapers. METHOD We retrospectively evaluated health-related news published in the electronic versions of the newspapers Folha de São Paulo...

I argue that the GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) model basically explains an arousal-based amplification of emotional stimuli, whereas effects on neutral stimuli indicate a contextualization process aiming to reduce stimulus ambiguity. To extend the model's validity, I suggest distinguishing between internal and external emotional sources, as well considering the stimulus valen...

CLEF Cultural micro-blog Contextualization Workshop is aiming at providing the research community with data sets to gather, organize and deliver relevant social data related to events generating a large number of micro-blog posts and web documents. It is also devoted to discussing tasks to be run from this data set and that could serve applications.

Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems do not completely integrate visualization, interaction and analysis functionalities of Geographic Information Systems. In this paper, we propose a flexible Web SOLAP tool, GoOlap, which combines OLAP and Geovisualization functionalities through the integration of the geobrowser Google Earth and the OLAP tool Mondrian/JPivot. Google Earth enriches spatio-multidimensi...

Research has shown that automatic evaluations can be highly robust and difficult to change, highly malleable and easy to change, and highly context dependent. We tested a representational account of these disparate findings, which specifies the conditions under which automatic evaluations reflect (a) initially acquired information, (b) subsequently acquired, counterattitudinal information, or (...

In the paper we propose a method of structuring a knowledge base into hierarchically related contexts and present how this arrangement influences the structure of TBox and ABox. We introduce a possibility to attach to a single TBox many ABoxes describing different parts of a domain and we show how to interpret such an ontology. Practical application of the method offers very interesting possibi...

View mechanisms, widely used in the relational databases, pose new questions in the object model which captures much more semantics. In this paper, we will focus on inheritance and inter-objects relationships, two main semantic aspects of the object model. Like in the relational model, most of the current works about object-oriented views assume a fine granularity of the views. View classes are...

The Digital Government landscape is continuously changing to reflect how governments are trying to find innovative digital solutions to social, economic, political and other pressures, and how they transform themselves in the process. Understanding and predicting such changes is important for policymakers, government executives, researchers and all those who prepare, make, implement or evaluate...