The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement was established to combat capricious reasoning in clinical care, particularly arguments from authority. Critique of authority and appraisal of evidence remain EBM's core values and should be revisited in this era of EBM's maturity and influence. We are now faced with a new form of under-questioned authority: evidence from well-designed and methodologic...

This paper describes the process of creating a controlled vocabulary which can be used to systematically analyse the copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) of journal publishers with regard to self-archiving. The analysis formed the basis of the newly created Copyright Knowledge Bank of publishers’ self-archiving policies. Self-archiving terms appearing in publishers’ CTAs were identified and cla...

We describe ongoing work aiming at deriving a multilingual controlled vocabulary (German, French, Italian) from the combined subject indices from 22 volumes of a large-scale critical edition of historical documents. The controlled vocabulary is intended to support editors in assigning descriptors to new documents and to support users in retrieving documents of interest regardless of the spellin...

We discuss paraphrasing controlled English texts, by defining two fragments of Attempto Controlled English (ACE): Core ACE and NP ACE. We show that these fragments have features that one would usually expect from paraphrases. We also describe a tool that paraphrases ACE sentences into these fragments.

Annotations of clinical trials with controlled vocabularies of drugs and diseases, encode scientific knowledge that can be mined to discover relationships between scientific concepts. We present PAnG (Patterns in Annotation Graphs), a tool that relies on dense subgraphs, graph summarization and taxonomic distance metrics, computed using the NCI Thesaurus, to identify patterns.

In this paper, we introduce $(mathcal{C},mathcal{C}')$-controlled continuous $g$-Bessel families and their multipliers in Hilbert spaces and investigate some of their properties. We show that under some conditions sum of two $(mathcal{C},mathcal{C}')$-controlled continuous $g$-frames is a $(mathcal{C},mathcal{C}')$-controlled continuous $g$-frame. Also, we investigate when a $(mathcal{C},mathca...

one way to increase the shelf life of agriculture products is using of controlled atmosphere storages. in order to obtain the controlled gas components, an equipped cold store with cooling system and atmosphere controller system designed and constructed. the injection of co2, o2 and n2 were controlled automatically into the store by programable logic control (plc). the store was a laboratory re...

there are currently ‎many different protocols in use for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (coh), but the optimal method has ‎not yet been determined. to compare the outcome of coh using ‎clomiphene citrate (cc) versus cc plus human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg) in conjunction with intrauterine insemination (iui), we studied 117 infertile couples‎. iui with cc was used in 92 cycles ‎(group a)...