Knowledge Representation in the Semantic Web is mainly characterized by the capabilities of the languages OWL and RDF. When attacking non-trivial problems such as the creation and maintenance of large-scale knowledge bases in RDF, it becomes evident that RDF lacks a central feature, namely the capability of restricting the truth value of a statement to a context, with far-reaching consequences ...

Objectives: Semantic Feature Analysis was designed to improve lexical retrieval of aphasic patients via activation of semantic networks of the words. In this approach, the anomic patients are cured with semantic information to assist oral naming. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Semantic Feature Analysis treatment on anomia of two nonfluent aphasic patients. Methods: A...

This paper argues for contextualism about predicates of personal taste and evaluative predicates in general, and offers a proposal of how apparently resilient disagreements are to be explained. The present proposal is complementary to others that have been made in the recent literature. Several authors, for instance (López de Sa, 2008; Sundell, 2011; Huvenes, 2012; Marques and García-Carpintero...

Content-based image retrieval and text-based image retrieval are two fundamental approaches in the field of image retrieval. The challenges related to each of these approaches, guide the researchers to use combining approaches and semi-automatic retrieval using the user interaction in the retrieval cycle. Hence, in this paper, an image retrieval system is introduced that provided two kind of qu...

Petra Schmidt, Ilya Grigorenko,* and A. F. J. Levi Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, 3620 S. McClintock Avenue, SSC 211A, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484, USA Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 3620 S. Vermont Avenue, KAP 132, Los Angeles, California 90089-2533, USA Theoretical Division T-11, Los Alamos National Labo...

Sexual gender norms promoting sexual prowess for men, but sexual modesty for women have been shown to negatively affect sexual and mental health in both men and women. Knowledge about the relationship between gender norms and sexual cognitions and emotions might further the understanding of continued gender-norm conformity. In the present study, we investigated whether and how gendered sexual a...

Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of hospital staff is needed to improve care activities that support the detection/prevention/treatment of malnutrition, yet quality measures are lacking. The purpose was to develop (study 1) and assess the administration and discriminative potential (study 2) of using such a KAP measure in acute care. In study 1, a 27-question KAP ques...

AIM To study the knowledge, attitude, and practices of antenatal women regarding nutrition and drug compliance in a maternal and child health center in Navi Mumbai. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study was carried out on 250 pregnant females visiting a maternal and child health center over a period of 4 months from November 2012 to February 2013. Women attending the antenatal OPD were asked to fil...

BACKGROUND Celebrities are highly influential people whose actions and decisions are watched and often emulated by wide audiences. Many celebrities have used their prominent social standing to offer medical advice or endorse health products, a trend that is expected to increase. However, the extent of the impact that celebrities have in shaping the public's health-related knowledge, attitudes, ...