In September 2001, the University of Virginia was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the first digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) [1]. The Digital Library Research Group at Cornell University originally developed Fedora under a National Science Foundation Grant [1-3]. Fedor...

It is currently difficult and time-consuming to validate and manipulate data in web applications, so we have developed an editor and a parser to simplify these tasks. Our editor enables end-user programmers to create and debug reusable, flexible data formats without learning a complex new language. Our parser uses these formats to turn strings into structured objects and to report its level of ...

Many types of supervised recognition algorithms have been developed over the past halfcentury. However, it remains difficult to compare their flexibility and ability to reason. Part of the difficulty is the need of a good definition of flexibility. This chapter is dedicated to defining and evaluating flexibility in recognition. Artificial Intelligence and even more so Artificial General Intelli...

Based on a modified grounded theory approach, in this study, we sought to elucidate the nursing care process used to guide psychiatric inpatients in long-term seclusion towards release from seclusion. Participant observations and interviews were conducted with a total of 18 nurses from three long-term psychiatric wards at two institutions from September 2011 to November 2012, to collect data on...

Adapting to and complying with frequently changing policy against low costs requires flexible business processes. Yet, existing systems are unrelated, consist of operating silos, involve many human translation tasks and policies are hardcoded in business processes. From a technology perspective, both Semantic Web Service (SWS) and Business Rule (BR) can be used to create flexible business proce...

This paper reports a modified axiomatic foundation of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), where reciprocal property paired comparisons is broken. The novel concept symmetry breaking proposed to characterize considered situation without property. It found that uncertainty experienced by decision maker can be naturally incorporated into axioms. Some results are derived from new axioms involving...

Community-based organizations (CBOs) fill a critical role in acting as public health partners and trusted resources for their communities, especially an emergency. The CDC Foundation, independent, nonprofit organization, used trust-based philanthropy to manage more than 110 COVID-19 grants focused on equitable vaccine information, outreach, access. Foundation team uses paradigm by applying five...

Funding information National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 1453218, 1506605; Department of Energy, Grant/Award Number: DE-NA0002509 Abstract Glass is in general brittle and therefore usually cannot sustain large deformation. Recent advances in glass material development as well as micro-mechanical designs, however, are set to defy the conventional wisdom through the demonstration of f...

Today, tabular data represents only a small fraction of the available information, and relational database management systems are not always the best choice to store and manipulate information. However, when there are no specialized systems our only option is to use general database systems and fit our data into them. In this paper, we present a novel flexible idea of data model, as a theoretic...