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    Integrating Heterogeneous Data of Healthcare Devices to enable Domain Data Management

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    The growth of data produced for example by IoT devices has playing a major role in developing healthcare applications able to effectiveness handle the vast amount of information. The challenge lies in representing volumes of data, integrating and understanding their various formats and sources. Cognitive computing systems offer promise for analysing, accessing, integrating, and investigating data in order to improve outcomes across many domains, including healthcare. This paper presents an ontology-based system for the eHealth domain. It provides semantic interoperability among heterogeneous IoT fitness and wellness devices and facilitates data integration and sharing. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in exploiting semantic web technologies to explicitly describe the meaning of sensor data and define a common communication strategy for information representation and exchange

    Improve student participation in peer assessment to influence learning outcomes: a case study

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    A variety of technology enhanced teaching strategies and learning activities have been applied in education, including assessment mechanisms. In this paper, we aim to examine the extent to which peer assessment promotes deep learning and favours the incremental learning of the concepts presented throughout a traditional introductory programming course. In particular, we want to examine how the enactment of the peer-assessor and peer-assessee roles is associated with students’ learning improvements, after enacting recip-rocal peer assessment. We illustrate a case study based on a novel web-based peer assessment tool to improve engagement and learning outcomes in a pro-gramming course. We want to assess whether programming skills are growing through peer review and whether exposure to different programming tech-niques is helpful to students. One of the most remarkable findings of our ex-perience was that students reported that assessing others’ work was an ex-tremely valuable learning activity

    Semantic Modelling of Smart Healthcare Data

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    Nowadays, healthcare is becoming increasingly connected and increasingly complex. These changes provide opportunities and challenges to the research community. For instance, the enormous volume of data gathered from IoT wearable fitness devices and wellness appliances, if effectively analysed and understood, can be exploited to improve people’s well-being and identify predictive markers of future diseases. However, due to the lack of devices interoperability and heterogeneity of data representation formats, the IoT healthcare landscape is characterised by a pervasive presence of ”data silos” which prevents users and health practitioners from obtaining an overall view of whole knowledge. Semantic web technologies, such as ontologies and inference rules, have been shown as a promising way for the integration and exploitation of data from heterogeneous sources. In this paper, we present a semantic data model useful to: (a) analyse information from unstructured data sources along with generic or domain specific datasets; (b) unify them in an interlinked data processing area. The proposed semantic eHealth system enables automatic inferences and logical reasoning, and can significantly facilitate reuse, exploitation and possible extension of IoT health data sources.. Nowadays, healthcare is becoming increasingly connected and increasingly complex. These changes provide opportunities and challenges to the research community. For instance, the enormous volume of data gathered from IoT wearable fitness devices and wellness appliances, if effectively analysed and understood, can be exploited to improve peo-ple’s well-being and identify predictive markers of future diseases. However, due to the lack of devices interoperability and heterogeneity of data representation formats, the IoT healthcare landscape is characterised by a pervasive presence of “data silos” which prevents users and health practitioners from obtaining an overall view of whole knowledge. Semantic web technologies, such as ontologies and inference rules have been shown as a promising way for the integration and exploitation of data from heterogeneous sources. In this paper, we present a semantic data model useful to: (a) analyse information from unstructured data sources along with generic or domain specific datasets; (b) unify them in an interlinked data processing area. The proposed semantic eHealth system enables automatic inferences and logical reasoning, and can significantly facilitate reuse, exploitation and possible extension of IoT health data sources

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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