Abstract We compare two supervised machine learning algorithms—Multinomial Naïve Bayes and Gradient Boosting—to classify social science articles using textual data. The high level of granularity the classification scheme used possibility that multiple categories are assigned to a document make this task challenging. To collect training data, we query three discipline specific thesauri retrieve ...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of evidence regarding the kinds of decisions made by primary care nurses and the information sources they use in clinical decision making. OBJECTIVE To describe the decisions made by nurses working in general practice and the sources of information they use to underpin those decisions. METHODS Qualitative methods (interviews, observation, documentary analysis) wer...

context functional dyspepsia (fd) is a functional gastro-intestinal disorder with high prevalence. among various treatment options, treatment by complementary and alternative medicines especially herbal remedies also practiced. traditional iranian medicine (tim), a valuable resource of valid applied studies of ancient iranian scholars, recommends numerous medicinal plants to treat dyspepsia sym...

Enterprises are full of all kinds of data. But they lack of high-level valid data resource. It is difficult to access the upstream sources of operational data, and is very complicated to collect all the needed information and to integrate and aggregate. This paper presents an Enterprise Multiple-tier Distributed Data Processing Architecture (EMDDPA) to support enterprise data resource shared an...

The knowledge and expertise of employees is the major asset that knowledgebased organizations hold. In order to make use of this asset, it is necessary to enhance the communication between employees so that they can share knowledge and expertise. Expertise matching – locating experts with the specific expertise is receiving more and more attention since it facilitates people connection to each ...

INTRODUCTION Population-based data are essential for quantifying the problems and measuring the progress made by comprehensive cancer control programs. However, cancer information specific to the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is not readily available. We identified major population-based surveys conducted in the United States that contain questions related to cancer, document...

grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common computational platform. mobile computing is a generic word that introduces using of movable, handheld devices with wireless communication, for processing data. mobile computing focused on providing access to data, information, services and communications anywhere an...