The authors conducted a review of the major aspects of progression of knowledge about the surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism. Through literature review, we analyzed articles on the history of the evolution of anatomical, physiological, pathological and surgical knowledge of the parathyroid glands. Because of their unique anatomical features, the parathyroid glands were the last of the en...

Dear Colleagues, The journal International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology has decided to award in 2015 the three best systematic review and/or literature review articles published in the journal in 2014, highlighting contributions that laid the foundations and concepts of universal knowledge. The purpose of the awards is to praise and acclaim distinguished authors, while also encouraging new t...

The technology that supports the Semantic Web presents a great diversity and, whereas all the tools use different types of ontologies, not all of them share a common knowledge representation model, which may pose problems when they try to interoperate. The Knowledge Web European Network of Excellence is organizing a benchmarking of interoperability of ontology tools using OWL as interchange lan...

As the market competition for ICT products and services businesses continues to increase, B2B companies are expected improve their performance in order win share. Design implementation of Performance Management Systems (PMS) essential components management control systems providing best business solutions. This research proposes a modification Malcolm Baldrige Criteria Excellence (MBCfPE) Knowl...

This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Ray Reiter. It is also an overview of cogni-tive robotics, as we understand it to have been envisaged by him. 1 Of course, nobody can control the use of a term or the direction of research. We apologize in advance to those who feel that other approaches to cognitive robotics and related problems are inadequately represented here. 23.1 Introduction In i...