Collaborative Research T he International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), working with hundreds of partners in developing countries, produces technologies and knowledge that better enable farmers, mainly smallholders, to enhance ecoefficiency in agriculture. This means we help make production more competitive and profitable as well as sustainable and resilient through economically and e...

In the emerging Web of Data, publishing stable and unique identifiers promises great potential in using the web as common platform to discover and enrich data in the ecologic sciences. With our collaborative e-Science platform “BEFdata”, we generated and published unique identifiers for the data repository of the Biodiversity – Ecosystem Functioning Research Unit of the German Research Foundati...

three nearly simultaneous events around the end of the 19th century, i.e., the discovery of x‐rays by roentgen in 1895, natural radioactivity by antoine‐henri becquerel in 1896 and isolation of radium by the curies' in 1898 opened the nuclear era which has changed broadly the worlds of physics, biology and medicine. at the close of the 20th century, fundamental discoveries in biology at mo...

Senior Researcher, PhD Hanna Suominen is an experienced researcher, coordinator and teacher on health and wellness technologies. Her research interests are developing and evaluating methods and applications of machine learning, mathematical modeling, and human language technologies. Hanna has contributed to numerous successful projects with research, industry, governmental, and educational part...

Based on recommendations of various international and intergovernmental bodies, many countries have adopted the concept of an Internet-based “Single Window” with an expectation that it would allow seamless G2G, G2B, B2G, and B2B information exchange within and across borders to enhance the facilitation of the international trade. The implementation of such effort requires unprecedented interage...

This paper describes a project to develop international collaborative CAD/CAM at the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research (CAMR), University of South Australia, Australia. The strategy of using the current computer and communication technologies to provide a computer supported cooperative working (CSCW) environment for the national and international CAD/CAM link from collaborative design ...

recently defined a framework for clinical research including defining clinically relevant end points, study populations, and other criteria for collaborative clinical research that should encourage rapid testing of therapies and expedite new drug development. This framework will be formally presented in May 2012 at the XIII International Symposium on Amyloidosis at the University Medical Center...

Collaboration has become an important goal in modern ventures, across the spectrum of commercial, social, and intellectual activities, sometimes as a mediating factor, and sometimes as a driving, foundational principle. Research, development, social programs, and ongoing ventures of all sorts benefit from interactions between teams, groups, and organizations, across intellectual disciplines and...

Motivational aspects are core to successful knowledge sharing and collaborative learning experiences. However, it still remains one of the great challenges to overcome motivational barriers when it comes to introducing information systems for collaborative learning at the workplace. In the context of an international research project we have taken motivational aspects into account during the de...

We present two novel applications of collaborative topic modeling to the broad datasets of humanities research article recommendations. In the first, we present an adaptation of the semisupervised collaborative topic regression model to a situation in which no user feedback by simulating users to develop a much better contentbased recommendation model (over 95% precision and relevant recall) th...