Conducting scientific research most often involves a search through existing literature in order to avoid repeating research efforts, review methods already developed for solving a problem, gain a better understanding of a problem, etc. Typically, this search is performed using the Internet, which is a convenient portal to various databases of books, journal articles, technical reports, preprin...

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BACKGROUND Elderly care practice and its management together with policy and research play a crucial role in responding to increasing challenges in institutional care for elderly people. Successful dialogue between these is necessary. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to compare how institutional elderly care management research meets the care challenges currently emphasized i...

Tobacco documents research has developed into a thriving academic enterprise since its inception in 1995. The technology supporting tobacco documents archiving, searching and retrieval has improved greatly since that time, and consequently tobacco documents researchers have considerably more access to resources than was the case when researchers had to travel to physical archives and/or electro...

This chapter presents an innovative approach for performing data mining on documents, which serves as a basis for knowledge extraction in e-learning environments. The approach is based on a radical model of text data that considers phrasal features paramount in documents, and employs graph theory to facilitate phrase representation and efficient matching. In the process of text mining, a groupi...

Documents often display an internal structure; they are composed of components. For example, a journal contains several articles, which themselves contain paragraphs, tables, etc. With structured documents, the retrievable units should be the document components as well as the whole document. The components of a structured document can be of different types: various media, located in a number o...

People often write in their blogs about news articles or events in news articles. In this case, however, the details of the news articles or events are often poorly described in such blog entries. Therefore, the readers of blogs need to find the original articles, which contain more details of the news articles, when they want to know about them. In this paper, we propose a method for linking n...

AIM To analyze the 2007 citation count of articles published by the Croatian Medical Journal in 2005-2006 based on data from the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. METHODS Web of Science and Scopus were searched for the articles published in 2005-2006. As all articles returned by Scopus were included in Web of Science, the latter list was the sample for further analysis. Total citati...

BACKGROUND A wide variety of probiotic products has been introduced into the market in the past decade. Research trends and activity on probiotics help understand how these products were evolved and their potential future role in medicine. The objective of this study was to assess the research activity on probiotics in pediatrics using bibliometric indicators and network visualization. METHOD...

article 251 of the commerce act (ca), although mentioned among the articles related to the commercial documents, is the sole article which seeks to determine the manner of reference among the liquidators of the bankrupt sureties. although this article has apparently disrupted a normal practice asserting that liquidators of none of the bankrupt sureties are allowed to refer to the liquidators of...