Cross-disciplinary e-Science can be enabled by using foundational ontologies such as Dolce to integrate knowledge representations from different geoscience domains. G eoscientists are increasingly concerned with big problems related to climate change, natural hazards, and environmental health. In solving these problems, they're regularly encountering data and knowledge that are complex, diverse...

Machine learning methods and in particular random forests are promising approaches for prediction based on high dimensional omics data sets. They provide variable importance measures to rank predictors according to their predictive power. If building a prediction model is the main goal of a study, often a minimal set of variables with good prediction performance is selected. However, if the obj...

The paper presents the results of mapping of PSI Ontologies family to the foundational ontologies: WordNet, SUMO and DOLCE. The two main outcomes of the presented research are: reported manual technique may be used as initial evaluation of ontology claiming to be a golden standard for a new domain; and: usage of mentioned foundational ontologies for alignment of ontologies family of a given dom...

INTRODUCTION Smile is one of the most important interactive communication skills of a person. A smile is the key factor for an aesthetic appearance. Hence aesthetics is one of the motivating factor for the patients to seek dental care. Correction of unaesthetic appearance gives a positive effect to the self esteem of the patient. AIM The aim of this study was to compare the difference in the ...

BACKGROUND Tooth sensitivity (TS) is the most common side effect of dental bleaching therapies. Dexamethasone has been used with tooth bleaching to reduce TS. The efficacy of dexamethasone for this purpose has not been well studied. METHODS The authors conducted a triple-masked, randomized, clinical trial with a parallel design involving 63 healthy participants who received either a placebo o...

We report on the life and work of F. Wiener, whom we confused with N. Wiener in a previous article.

[1] Professor of Mathematics; University of Vermont, 1999-present. [1] Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics; Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) [on sabbatical from UVM], 1992-1993. [2] Associate Professor of Mathematics; University of Vermont, 1991-1999. [3] Assistant Professor of Mathematics; University of Vermont, 1986-1991. [4] Van Vleck Assistant Professor; University of ...

Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially useful for complex and high involvement products such as cars, computers, or financial services. In this paper we present the VITA (Virtualis Tanacsado) financial services recommendation environment which has been depl...

Entities The main characteristic of abstract entities is that they do not have spatial or temporal qualities, and they are not qualities themselves. The only class of abstract entities we consider in the current version of DOLCE is that of quality regions (or simply regions). Quality spaces are special kinds of quality regions, acting as mereological sums of all the regions related to a certain...