Scientific knowledge representation and reasoning presents unique challenges which the computer language community under-appreciates. We present early work on a scientific reasoning environment and knowledge base designed to simultaneously support a community of scientists, to handle scientific knowledge like floating point distributions, meta-data and meta-knowledge, and to treat explanations ...

The increase in the size of the scientific community created an explosion in scientific production. We have analyzed the dynamics of biomedical scientific output during 1957-2007 by applying a bibliometric analysis of the PubMed database using different keywords representing specific biomedical topics. With the assumption that increased scientific interest will result in increased scientific ou...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Forensic Res Criminol Int J 2015, 1(3): 00013 sufficient attention from the scientific community.” In the opinion of this writer, this perception is reality in far too many jurisdictions but it is not only the fault of the scientific community. Prosecutors, police departments, investigators, and forensic scientists all share responsibility for this ...

We propose using community-centered analyses and agent-based models of scientific gatherings such as conferences, symposia and workshops as a way to understand how scientific practices evolve and transition between local, community, and systems levels in science. We suggest using robotics as a case study of global, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary scientific practice. What is needed is a set o...

In October 2009, authors, staff, and guest experts from the Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) project and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the project’s funder, met in Madison, Wisconsin to discuss metrics, incentives, and partnerships for population health improvement. Their essays were published in this and the previous 2 issues of Preventing Chronic Disease (www.cdc.gov/pc...

Although experimentation is an accepted approach toward scientific validation in most scientific disciplines, it only recently has gained acceptance within the software development community. In this paper we discuss a 12-model classification scheme for performing experimentation within the software development domain. We evaluate over 600 published papers in the computer science literature and...

BACKGROUND Biological invasions are a major cause of global species change. Nevertheless, knowledge about the distribution and ecology of introduced species is regionally biased, and many gaps in knowledge exist for most developing countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To study the zoobenthos on the hard substratum of the Ilha Grande Bay, a survey was conducted on both natural and artific...

The literature on species abundance models is extensive and a great deal of new and important contributions have been published in the last three decades. Broadly speaking, one can recognize five families of species abundance models: i) purely statistical or classic models (Broken-stick, Log-normal, Logarithmic and Geometric series); ii) branching process (Zipf-Mandelbrot and Fractal branching ...

This paper outlines the urgent need for implementing a strategy for clinical chiropractic research to improve patient care and perhaps support the active promotion of chiropractic in the community. It addresses the cost of scientific research, and the need to develop a scientific chiropractic community which can address the diverse needs of the chiropractic profession and maintain parity with p...

Networking has become widespread in the scientific community, and even more so in the computer science community. There are networks being supported by a number of the Federal agencies interested in scientific research, and many scientists throughout the country have access to one or more of these networks. Furthermore, there are many resources (such as supercomputers) that are accessible via t...