A letter sent in 1982 by a group of scientists to the president of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico appealed for a policy of preservation of Brazilian scientific culture. The name of Carlos Chagas Filho topped the list of signatures thereby proving his commitment to that proposal, the ideological structure of which was part of his experience in scientific policy in ...

chiropractic is a complementary medicine that has been growing increasingly in different countries over recent decades. it addresses the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the neuromusculoskeletal system disorders and their effects on the whole body health. this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of chiropractic in the treatment of different diseases. to gather data, scientific electr...

Log analysis shows that PubMed users frequently use author names in queries for retrieving scientific literature. However, author name ambiguity may lead to irrelevant retrieval results. To improve the PubMed user experience with author name queries, we designed an author name disambiguation system consisting of similarity estimation and agglomerative clustering. A machine-learning method was e...

This paper studies the name lookup issue with longest prefix matching, which is widely used in URL filtering, content routing/switching, etc. Recently Content-Centric Networking (CCN) has been proposed as a clean slate future Internet architecture to naturally fit the contentcentric property of today’s Internet usage: instead of addressing end hosts, the Internet should operate based on the ide...

The article analyzes the specific problem of ensuring economic security Russian Federation, which has received figurative name in scientific literature “institutional trap”, essence is associated with lack necessary coordination macroeconomic regulators. This based on objective prerequisites due to non-transitivity social relations general and system public administration economy, particular.

Grant Agreement number: 285245 Project acronym: MAINBOT Project title: Mobile robots for inspection and maintenance activities in extensive industrial plants Funding Scheme: Collaborative Project Period covered: from 1-11-2011 to 30-10-2014 Name of the scientific representative of the project's co-ordinator: Iñaki Maurtua Title: Head of the Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Unit Organisation: ...

Nettie M. Stevens is one of the first women who contributed to genetic research. She discovered the role of sex chromosomes in sex determination during the first decade of the twentieth century. However, her discovery has rarely been recognized, and her scientific reputation was eclipsed by that of T.H. Morgan, who was credited for the establishment of modern genetics. Her name is absent from m...

The creation of Colciencias, in the late 1960s was a response to regional and multilateral initiatives promoted mainly by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Colciencias has since been the government agency in charge of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy-making and implementation, including fun...