Semantic Web technologies offer solutions for bridging discrete and even disparate datasets. Linked Data has been seen in several Digital Humanities projects, but through the alignment of instance-level entities rather than the capture of workflows, which have yet to become part of the publication paradigm for reporting on completed research. In this paper, we assess the functional requirements...

In agile software development projects, customer representatives (CRs) are assigned by their business departments to work alongside the information systems development (ISD) for the duration of an agile project. Ideally, a CR should be co-located with the ISD team. The full article describes a competency model for effective CRs developed by the authors following interviews with agile developmen...

Effective communication is often required for agents to properly handle collaborative multi-agent tasks. This is particularly true when humans are working alongside synthetic agents and traditional wireless communication modes are impractical. A framework for communication must allow for both explicit communication, where actions are directly execute to convey information, and implicit communic...

A pilot study is one of the essential stages in a research project. This paper aims to describe the importance of and steps involved in executing a pilot study by using an example of a descriptive study in primary care. The process of testing the feasibility of the project proposal, recruitment of subjects, research tool and data analysis was reported. We conclude that a pilot study is necessar...

"This article reviews the experience of two pilot projects in Bangladesh that have addressed the question of how [operations] research can be designed to foster its utilization. In a rural field experiment [begun in 1972] in Matlab subdistrict, research has demonstrated that contraceptive services, if carefully designed and properly implemented, can influence demographic dynamics even where so...

One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicating with different departments or specialties within the hospital. To do this, junior doctors often spend a lot of time on a daily basis contacting the hospital switchboard in order to locate a required bleep/extension/fax number, or trying to navigate an intranet based directory which can be diffi...

BACKGROUND Community service-learning (CSL) has been proposed as one way to enrich medical and dental students' sense of social responsibility toward people who are marginalized in society. AIM We developed and implemented a new CSL option in the integrated medical/dental curriculum and assessed its educational impact. METHODS Focus groups, individual open-ended interviews, and a survey wer...

Objective: To identify the socioeconomic factors in Tepecoacuilco, Guerrero that favored food productionand family income improves their security via backyard poultry projects.Methodology: 31 families with projects for chicken meat and egg production were surveyedand information complemented two participatory workshops.Results: The average area of backyards per was 48.27 m2 25.3 out ofthem used...

This paper presents a set of learning stories of student work on robotics projects. The stories illustrate key components of student learning, including demonstrations of: (1) an “emergent curriculum” of central ideas in robotics that are embedded in the materials that students work with and the projects they undertake; (2) self-directed learning and student autonomy in which students take true...