ontology is a requirement engineering product and the key to knowledge discovery. it includes the terminology to describe a set of facts, assumptions, and relations with which the detailed meanings of vocabularies among communities can be determined. this is a qualitative content analysis research. this study has made use of ontology for the first time to discover the knowledge of vaccine in ir...

nursing is a universal health care necessity. nursing profession, similar to the other medical professions, is responsible to maintain public health promotion, prevent diseases, and also care and rehabilitate client, family and the soci¬ety. the inher-ent nature of nursing is respect for moral values and human rights. however, clinical ethical dilem¬mas occur for nurses at all levels, not alway...

abstract background: clients that be hospitalized in intensive care units were not able to protected cornea and eye dry due to keratopathy. the aim of study was to comparing the effectiveness of three methods of eye care in health of cornea in critically ill patients in kermanshah intensive care unites 2013. methods: these clinical trials were done with 96 samples in three. three methods care (...

Health care is a knowledge-based community that critically depends on knowledge management activities in order to ensure quality. Nurses are primary stakeholders and need to ensure that their information and knowledge needs are being met in such ways that enable them, to improve the quality and efficiency of health care service delivery for all subjects of health care. This paper describes a sy...

in this article, the ontology based approach for modeling and management of profiles and competencies in virtual organization breeding environment (vbe) is presented. the main aim of creating the profile and competency ontology of vbe participants is utilizing them in the development of the intelligent agent for choosing the best partners in order to perform the research projects in the informa...

ontology is the main infrastructure of the semantic web which provides facilities for integration, searching and sharing of information on the web. development of ontologies as the basis of semantic web and their heterogeneities have led to the existence of ontology matching. by emerging large-scale ontologies in real domain, the ontology matching systems faced with some problem like memory con...

In this paper we argue that while attention to and acting upon ethical codes of conduct is paramount in professional nursing conduct, a critical antecedent to ethical behaviour is ontological perception, that is, and how we view the patient as a person. We argue that the nurse’s perspective of the essence of patients (e.g., are they a means to our ends or ends in themselves?) will form the grou...