Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be used as a guideline in business modeling and for evaluating business modeling methods. UFO is derived from a synthesis of two other foundational ontologies, GFO/GOL and OntoClean/DOLCE. While their main areas of applic...

This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts with regard to the quality assurance of clinical trial protocols. We developed a data dictionary for medical and trial-specific terms in which concepts and relations are defined context-dependently. The data dictionary is provided to different medical research networks by means of the software tool Onto-Bu...

We report the first counts of faint submillimetre galaxies (SMG) in the 870-μm band derived from arcsecond resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). We have used ALMA to map a sample of 122 870-μm-selected submillimetre sources drawn from the 0.5 × 0.5 LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field South Submillimetre Survey (LESS). These ALMA maps have an average depth of σ87...

We compare a Double-Sideband (DSB) system with 4 IFs of 2-GHz bandwidth each (4 GHz times two polarizations = 8 GHz total) and the two-Single-Sideband (2SB) system with 8 IFs of 2-GHz bandwidth each (4 GHz times two polarizations times separated two sidebands = 16 GHz total) that has been proposed for the baseline ALMA. We compare the sensitivity of these systems by adopting the state-of-art re...

15.1 NUMBER AND SIZE OF ANTENNA ELEMENTS ............................................................2 15.2 LIMITING CONFIGURATIONS, NUMBER OF CONFIGURATIONS, AND RESOLUTION SCALE FACTOR ......................................................................................................................2 15.2.1 Size of the Most Compact Array........................................................

Context. To characterize the mechanisms of planet formation it is crucial to investigate the properties and evolution of protoplanetary disks around young stars, where the initial conditions for the growth of planets are set. The high spatial resolution of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations now allows the study of radial va...

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Feasibility study of the mining operation is one of the most important parts of the total mineral exploitation process. The economic importance of this, increases with the size of the mineral reserves. Gol-Gohar is one of the largest iron ore mines in Iran with an annual output of some 11 million tons. In this paper, the total costs associated with Gol-Gohar open cast mine have been calculated....

Without loss of generalisation to other systems, including possibly non-deterministic ones, we demonstrate the application of methods drawn from algorithmic information dynamics to the characterisation and classification of emergent and persistent patterns, motifs and colliding particles in Conway’s Game of Life (GoL), a cellular automaton serving as a case study illustrating the way in which s...