Kindene wrestling is one of the most frequently recorded practices in Upper Xingu, from pioneering expeditions 19th century to researchers who worked toward demarcation Indigenous Land mid-20th century. Even with recent demographic increase peoples and diversification ethnographic themes addressed, kindene remains subject succinct, if acute, descriptions. Despite this epiphenomenal character, m...

The degree to which extrinsic factors influence migration chronology in North American waterfowl has not been quantified, particularly for dabbling ducks. Previous studies have examined waterfowl migration using various methods, however, quantitative approaches to define avian migration chronology over broad spatio-temporal scales are limited, and the implications for using different approaches...

Nowadays, the configuration of the world economy faces a deep productivetechnological reorganization, which main feature is the appearance on the scene of the emerging economies of the semi-periphery (Brazil, Russia, India, China, among others). The rise of these economies should result in the medium and long term in a reset level of the International Division of Labor and the relationship "cor...

Ontology versions are periodically released to ensure their usefulness and reliability over time. This potentially impacts dependent artefacts such as mappings and annotations. To deal with this issue requires to finely characterize ontology entities’ changes between ontology versions. This article proposes to identify change patterns at attribute values when an ontology evolves, to track textu...

This study was designed to understand the “landscape” of hospital incident reporting systems and to examine the use of health information technology to improve reporting, data analysis, and learning from errors in health care. To date, no systematic estimates exist of the characteristics of reporting systems operated by U.S. hospitals or of how these systems are being used. More research is nee...

Structuring enterprise information and supporting knowledge management is a growing application field for enterprise ontologies. Research work presented in this paper focuses on construction of enterprise ontologies. In an experiment, twomethods were used in parallel when developing an ontology for a company in automotive supplier industries. One method is based on automatic ontology constructi...

An ontology can be seen as a representation of concepts in a specific domain. Accordingly, ontology construction can be regarded as the process of organizing these concepts. If the terms which are used to label the concepts are classified before building an ontology, the work of ontology construction can proceed much more easily. Part-of-speech (PoS) tags usually carry some linguistic informati...

Contemporary feminist scholarship seeks the development of transnational conversations between women in different geopolitical spaces in order to confront the problems of a global age. Yet, if these conversations are predicated on Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of South/North, first/third world and metropole/colony, feminism risks replicating these dichotomies in the name of a unive...

OWL is recognized as the de facto standard notation for ontology engineering. The Manchester OWL Syntax (MOS) was developed as an alternative to symbolic description logic (DL) and it is believed to be more effective for users. This paper sets out to test that belief from two perspectives by evaluating how accurately and quickly people understand the informational content of axioms and derive i...