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Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Anthony Lewis and Nigel Fortune, eds., Opera and Church Music, 1630-1750
No full textWeber Edith. Anthony Lewis and Nigel Fortune, eds., Opera and Church Music, 1630-1750. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°4, 1977. pp. 103-105
Ep. #181 - Nigel Clark
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic discuss a strange effort to police sugar packet play on this week’s podcast. Then (15:52) we are delighted to welcome Nigel Clark to the conversation. Nigel is Chair of Social Sustainability and Human Geography at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/nigel-clark ). He is the author of Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet (2011) and co-editor of Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (2012), Material Geographies (2008) and Extending Hospitality(2009). We start things off by talking about a new book he is working on called The Anthropocene and Societythat he is working on with Bron Szerszynski and what it means to rethink humanity through planetary strata, flows, and multiplicity. We turn from there to Australian feminism, phosphates, Aotearoa New Zealand as a space of settler grassland experiments, wealth, and geocide. Then we touch on fire and its excess, our brittle life on an earth’s surface caught between solar and geothermal vitalities, metamorphosis, the early connection between gunpowder and combustion engines and European geotrauma. A special birthday week shout-out to our very own eternal Cymene Howe :
Social theory and the sociological imagination: an interview with Nigel Dodd (1 of 2)
No full textPart I of our interview with Nigel Dodd, interviewed by Riad Azar. Nigel Dodd is Professor in the Sociology Department at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at the University of Liverpool before joining the LSE in 1995. Nigel’s main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His most recent book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2014
MIAKT: Combining Grid and Web Services for Collaborative Medical Decision Making
No full textProviding semantic web technologies in a medical domain has its obvious advantages. Having distributed services using shared domain vocabularies provides a great impetus for the integration of disparate hospital information sytems, as well as the possibility of providing more accurate diagnoses and a well organised knowledge base for sharing, tutoring and researching. Using such disparate systems requires careful consideration both technicaly, medically and ethically. This paper describes the way the ssytem we have developed offers evidence of the promise of such enhancements in the specific area of screening for breast cancer
Health Psychology - 2nd edition
No full textWhat are the processes that lead to illness and, inversely, to health and wellness? How can healthcare systems be improved to help prevent and manage illness? What are the primary political and lifestyle factors that can contribute to the promotion of public health and wellbeing? Part of the Palgrave Insights in Psychology series, this straight-forward text provides a well-rounded introduction to the topic of health psychology and delivers an overview of the key issues within the discipline. Readers can expect to learn about the various sub-disciplines that comprise this interdisciplinary area of psychology such as sociology, medicine and politics. Written for those who would like to gain a general understanding of the profession and discipline of the subject, this book introduces the main disorders at the heart of health psychology's focus such chronic illness, cancer, pain, stress, smoking cessation and weight loss. Further, Rodham examines the behavioural factors and wider political processes that affect the psychology of health, illness and healthcare in society.
This title stands as part of the Insights series edited by Nigel Holt and Rob Lewis, containing well-rounded, quick guides to the cornerstone theories, main topics and theoretical perspectives of their subjects and are useful for pre-undergraduate students looking to find incisive introductions to subjects that they may be considering for undergraduate study or those looking for helpful preparatory reading for undergraduate modules in the prospective subject
Prevalence of metachronous contralateral mature ovarian teratoma: a systematic review
No full textThere is increasing recognition that contralateral metachronous tumor may occur following treatment of unilateral mature ovarian teratoma. We aimed to define this risk to guide appropriate surveillance strategies. We undertook a systematic review of three large medical databases (Ovid Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Controlled Trials Register) to April 2020 using a defined search strategy. From 1831 articles retrieved, 23 were included, reporting 1101 girls with unilateral mature ovarian teratomas. The intensity and duration of follow-up varied between studies, with only five reporting close surveillance. Overall prevalence of metachronous contralateral mature teratoma was 2.1%, with a prevalence per study of 0%–23% (median 0%). Prevalence was higher (7%) among studies with more robust surveillance. These data suggest a small but real risk of metachronous contralateral tumors. Surveillance ultrasonography is proportionate and indicated alongside further prospective data collection to record the natural history and impact of surveillance in greater detail.<br/
Maine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s M
No full textMaine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, which has sold over 90,000 copies, and a number of other books, including The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean and Cuba: A Cruising Guide
Modern vacuum practice
No full textModern Vacuum Practice is an easy-to-understand introduction to high vacuum technology suitable for anyone using high vacuum as a tool. The author provides a fundamentally non-mathematical treatment of the subject, assuming little or no prior vacuum knowledge throughout. With its emphasis always on providing practical information, the book gives the reader the knowledge to set up, use, maintain and troubleshoot a vacuum system
Indexing Ontologies with Semantics-enhanced Keywords
No full textOntologies, as a knowledge representation paradigm, rely on semantics for performing logical inference. However, in the context of ontology query and reuse, the semantics are hard to be manipulated. When searching for ontologies and identifying potentially relevant candidates, a mechanism is required to exploit (i) the appropriate semantic restrictions as well as the (ii) meaning of concepts/properties. This paper proposes an approach that will address both requirements. The contribution of this paper is to conceptually detail how a set of ontology indices can be obtained. More specifically, to obtain a relevant set of keywords describing an ontology, we use logic-based constructors to generate an initial set of keywords. The meaning of these keywords is further explored by consulting a comprehensive text corpora serving as the background/domain knowledge. The novelty of our work lies in the combination of logic-based formalisms with a collaboratively contributed web repository. We illustrate our work by the means of a real world example
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