Methods: A bibliographic study was carried out by consulting public online databases of patents, such as the United States Patent and Trademark office, World Intellectual Property Organization and the National Intellectual Property Institute; The following keywords were used: copaiba oil, renal function, kidney, kidney stones, matrix microparticles Copaifera langsdorffii and lithiasis. In this ...

The project CARMEN (“Content Analysis, Retrieval and Metadata: Effective Networking”) aimed – among other goals – at improving the expansion of searches in bibliographic databases into Internet searches. We pursued a set of different approaches to the treatment of semantic heterogeneity (meta-data extraction, query translation using statistic relations and cross-concordances). This paper descri...

This study aims at systematizing a conceptual framework of sustainability in project management oriented to success. A systematic literature review was used, merging as bibliographic and methodological approaches. The sample was extracted from the databases (ISI Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Scielo). The results present the systematization of the literature and a conceptual framework...

Objectives—Graphical displays can make data more understandable; however, large graphs can challenge human comprehension. We have previously described a filtering method to provide high-level summary views of large data sets. In this paper we demonstrate our method for setting and selecting thresholds to limit graph size while retaining important information by applying it to large single and p...

I will consider the problem of helping user’s retrieve information from large diverse collections of textual materials such as bibliographic databases, electronic bulletin boards and online manuals, although I believe that many of my arguments apply to other interactive environments as well. Information retrieval systems like this must handle a heterogeneous population of users, and even a sing...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Bibliographic databases were searched up to July 2012. Included studies had a follow-up of ‡12 months and outcomes comparing change in body composition, glycemic control, or progression to diabetes. Lifestyle interventions aimed to translate evidence from previous efficacy trials of diabetes prevention into realworld intervention programs. Data were combined using ra...

With the advancement of Web, novel types of scientificrelated data and metadata are emerging from a growing number of various sources. Alongside traditional bibliographic data provided by digital libraries great amounts of social metadata (such as bookmarks, ”reads”, tags, comments and ”likes”) are created and accumulated by social networking services. We believe that these metadata can be frui...

Today’s information seekers have been conditioned by Web search engines to expect immediate gratification as the result of user-friendly Web experiences. In contrast, it is increasingly apparent that traditional library OPACs do not provide the same ease of use or access to information. National Bibliographic Agencies (NBAs) and libraries everywhere need to respond to this discrepancy by initia...

Bibliographic information networks, formed by online bibliographic databases, such as ACM Digital Library and IEEE/IET Electronic Library, contain abundant information about authors, papers, venues (journals/conferences), and have been widely studies in recent years. However, few studies examine the problem of ranking objects in these networks. In this paper, we study this problem and present a...

This paper brings a classification of the bibliographic output of the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health over the period 1994-1998 into fourteen main categories according to the type of publication and its coverage in different bibliographic databases. The academic staff was classified according to scientific fields in which they received the bachelor's degree and in which t...