A 25 year-old Construction worker underwent neck laceration following penetrating neck trauma in a falling incident. The 3rd tracheal ring was injured which was initially repaired and the patient was discharged in good general condition. (Figure 1 shows the patient’s neck view after discharge from hospital).Two months later the patient was again admitted due to provocative coughing and a metal ...

The increasingly pluralistic character of modern societies has led to questions, not only about the proper use of ethnic-group terms, but also about the correct semantic analysis of them. Here I argue that ethnic-group terms are analogous to other rigid designators whose extension is fixed in the way suggested by a causal theory of reference. My view accommodates precisely those scenarios of co...

D2RQ Mapper (http://d2rq.dbcls.jp/) is a web application to edit a mapping file of D2RQ, a middleware to bridge Relational Database (RDB) and Resource Description Framework (RDF). A D2RQ mapping file defines how to map data stored in an RDB to RDF in the turtle format, and to write it by a text editor is cumbersome. D2RQ Mapper assists you to edit it by contextualizing input forms in the mappin...

A basic geometric question is to determine when a given framework G(p) is globally rigid in Euclidean space Rd, where G is a finite graph and p is a configuration of points corresponding to the vertices of G. G(p) is globally rigid in Rd if for any other configuration q for G such that the edge lengths of G(q) are the same as the corresponding edge lengths of G(p), then p is congruent to q. A f...

The W3C Relational Database to RDF (RDB2RDF) standards are positioned to bridge the gap between Relational Databases and the Semantic Web. The standards consist of two interrelated and complementary specifications: Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF and R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language. In this paper we present initial results on the formal study of the R2RML mapping language by definin...

For integrating relational databases (RDBs) into semantic web applications, the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group recommended two approaches, Direct Mapping (DM) and R2RML. The DM provides a set of mapping rules according to RDB schema, while the R2RML allows users to manually define mappings according to existing target ontology. The major problem to use R2RML is the effort for creating R2RML mapping ...

The contrast mechanism of medical endoscopy is mainly based on metrics of optical intensity and wavelength. As another fundamental property of light, polarization can not only reveal tissue scattering and absorption information from a different perspective, but can also provide insight into directional tissue birefringence properties to monitor pathological changes in collagen and elastin. Here...

The design rationale behind the triplification of a relational database is a valuable information source, especially for the process of interlinking published triplesets. Indeed, studies show that the arbitrary use of the owl:sameAs property, without carrying context information regarding the triplesets to be linked, has jeopardized the reuse of the triplesets. This article therefore proposes t...

Atλaς, is a toponymic database used as reference for projects and ar-chaeological corpora of the British School at Athens. Mainly stored in a MySQL database it is synchronized with a dedicated section in the museum collection management system EMu. External projects and databases are linked with a great variety of tools: APIs in major standard syntaxes for semantic corpora or even included in R...

After the general introduction a short view into today’s component-oriented usage-scenarios of object-relational databases is given and the resulting requirements for reusable object-relational mapping components are stated. Then a clarification of the term "component" is given. Followed by an overview of the UFO-RDB wrapper component and lists and short discussion of the provided features. The...