This and two companion papers (The Anthropocene and Geography I: The back story and The Anthropocene and Geography III: Future Directions) consider the relevance of 'the Anthropocene' to present and future research in Geography. Along with the concept of 'planetary boundaries', the idea that humanity has entered a new geological epoch of its own making is currently attracting considerable atten...

We present a measure of contextual similarity for biomedical terms. The contextual features need to be explored, because newly coined terms are not explicitly described and efficiently stored in biomedical ontologies and their inner features (e.g. morphologic or orthographic) do not always provide sufficient information about the properties of the underlying concepts. The context of each term c...

Ecological psychology applies insights of Darwinian theory and Gestalt principles to the understanding of perceptual processes. James J. Gibson developed a perceptual theory of "affordances", a neologism he adopted for the pivotal concept in a radical view of how interactive organism-environment features index the behaviors an organism may perform (perceived action possibilities). Gibson assert...

great fortuna in Arabic and then in Western medicine, where it spread and circulated mainly in an anonymous Arabic-Latin version until the beginning of the sixteenth century, when it was again translated into Latin by Wilhelm Kopp of Basle, physician of the French king. Probably at the same time in which the Arabic-Latin version was made, Burgundio of Pisa (d. 1 193) translated the De loc. aff ...

Advances in positioning, Web mapping, cellular communications and wiki technologies have outpaced the original visions of GSDI programs around the world. By tapping the distributed knowledge, personal time and energy of volunteer contributors, GI voluntarism is beginning to relocate and redistribute selected GI productive activities from mapping agencies to networks of non-state volunteer actor...

The expansion of telecommunication and progress of electronic media constitute important elements of our times. The recent worldwide convergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) and dynamic development of the mass media is leading to noticeable changes in the functioning of contemporary states and societies. Currently, modern technologies play more and more important roles an...

This paper describes new thesaurus construction method in which class-based, small size thesauruses are constructed and merged as a whole based on domain classification system. This method has advantages in that 1) taxonomy construction complexity is reduced, 2) each classbased thesaurus can be reused in other domain thesaurus, and 3) term distribution per classes in target domain is easily ide...

Considering that the present-day Croatian still frequently fails to have the exact translational equivalents for the novel ideas developed and disseminated via metalinguistic Eurospeak, the paper adopts and employs an unorthodox scientific method to refer to an articulated correlation between a conceptual framework theorized (i.e., the noninvasive library digitization projects pertaining to the...

There is a gap in the geographical/geopolitical literature about the process that motivates humans to conquer a boundless, timeless and invaluable wilderness in the name of plural ecologies to serve their own political interests in control and territory building by means of ‘green gerrymandering’. The ecological frontier (or eco-frontier), a neologism produced by a contemporary greened civil so...