background & aim: knowledge and attitude of the nurses and midwives towards hiv/aids patients could affect the quality of care provision. thus, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitude, and tendency of nurses and midwives towards caring for hiv/aids patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 303 nurses and midwives at healthcare centers, aff...

Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing investigation tackling these issues to facilitate the creation of tailored biographies from information harvested from the web. In this paper we will present the methods we currently use to model, consol...

Given the inherent risk of innovative activity, multiple parallel approaches to innovation can improve the odds of success. Since innovation draws on many sources of ideas, firms also may improve their odds of successful innovation by accessing a large number of knowledge sources. In this study, we conduct one of the first firm-level statistical analyses of the impact on innovation of breadth i...

background while there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis (ms), treatment with biologic diseasemodifying drugs (bdmds) can reduce the impact of the condition on the lives of patients. in greece, the regulatory change in the distribution system of bdmds, limited their administration through the designated pharmacies of the national organization for healthcare services provision (eopyy) ...

Embedded systems are a global business in a diverse environment. Companies and research institutions build up competences in communications, automation, robotics, or medical and security applications. All of them generate new useful information, thereby contributing to the global knowledge about embedded systems. Accessing this information in time is key for any business, research, or education...

specific information on the World Wide Web, thus helping their users find relevant, domain-specific information. The construction of intelligent access and the contribution of information to knowledge portals, however, remained an ad hoc task, requiring extensive manual editing and maintenance by the knowledge portal providers. To diminish these efforts, we use ontologies as a conceptual backbo...

This paper presents the Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS), a knowledge base that supports interoperation over disparate transcription systems and practical orthographies. The knowledge base includes an ontological description of writing systems and relations for mapping transcription system segments to an interlingua pivot, the IPA. It includes orthographic and phonemic invent...