A science-oriented search engine could solve web problems

Lawrence and Giles [1] eloquently define the current problems with the World-Wide Web, but could "Nature" provide the solution ?

Relativistic Twin: Generazione Automatica di Digital Twin in un ambiente Web of Things

Con l’avvento dell’Industry 4.0, l’utilizzo dei dispositivi Internet of Things (IoT) è in continuo aumento. Le aziende stanno spingendo sempre più verso l’innovazione, andando ad introdurre nuovi metodi in grado di rinnovare sistemi IoT esistenti e crearne di nuovi, con prestazioni all’avanguardia. Un esempio di tecniche innovative emergenti è l’utilizzo dei Digital Twins (DT). Essi sono delle entità logiche in grado di simulare il reale comportamento di un dispositivo IoT fisico; possono essere utilizzati in vari scenari: monitoraggio di dati, rilevazione di anomalie, analisi What-If oppure per l’analisi predittiva. L’integrazione di tali tecnologie con nuovi paradigmi innovativi è in rapido sviluppo, uno tra questi è rappresentato dal Web of Things (WoT). Il Web of Thing è un termine utilizzato per descrivere un paradigma che permette ad oggetti del mondo reale di essere gestiti attraverso interfacce sul World Wide Web, rendendo accessibile la comunicazione tra più dispositivi con caratteristiche hardware e software differenti. Nonostante sia una tecnologia ancora in fase di sviluppo, il Web of Thing sta già iniziando ad essere utilizzato in molte aziende odierne. L’elaborato avrà come obiettivo quello di poter definire un framework capace di integrare un meccanismo di generazione automatica di Digital Twin su un contesto Web of Thing. Combinando tali tecnologie, si potrebbero sfruttare i vantaggi dell’interoperabilità del Web of Thing per poter generare un Digital Twin, indipendentemente dalle caratteristiche hardware e software degli oggetti da replicare.

Modelo de inclusão digital para construção do conhecimento em qualidade de vida e atividade fisica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Centro esportivo virtual : um recurso de informação em educação fisica e esportes na internet

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

The Sperm Of Hexagenia (pseudeatonica) Albivitta Walker (ephemeroptera: Fossoriae: Ephemeridae)

This study describes the sperm morphology of the mayfly Hexagenia (Pseudeatonica) albivitta (Ephemeroptera). Its spermatozoon measures approximately 30 μm of which 9 μm corresponds to the head. The head is composed of an approximately round acrosomal vesicle and a cylindrical nucleus. The nucleus has two concavities, one in the anterior tip, where the acrosomal vesicle is inserted and a deeper one at its base, where the flagellum components are inserted. The flagellum is composed of an axoneme, a mitochondrion and a dense rod adjacent to the mitochondrion. A centriolar adjunct is also observed surrounding the axoneme in the initial portion of the flagellum and extends along the flagellum for at least 2 μm, surrounding the axoneme in a half-moon shape. The axoneme is the longest component of the flagellum, and it follows the 9+9+0 pattern, with no central pair of microtubules. At the posterior region of the flagellum, the mitochondrion has a dumb-bell shape in cross sections that, together with the rectangular mitochondrial-associated rod, is responsible for the flattened shape of the flagellum. An internal membrane is observed surrounding both mitochondrion and its associated structure.

Chain motifs: The tails and handles of complex networks

A great part of the interest in complex networks has been motivated by the presence of structured, frequently nonuniform, connectivity. Because diverse connectivity patterns tend to result in distinct network dynamics, and also because they provide the means to identify and classify several types of complex network, it becomes important to obtain meaningful measurements of the local network topology. In addition to traditional features such as the node degree, clustering coefficient, and shortest path, motifs have been introduced in the literature in order to provide complementary descriptions of the network connectivity. The current work proposes a different type of motif, namely, chains of nodes, that is, sequences of connected nodes with degree 2. These chains have been subdivided into cords, tails, rings, and handles, depending on the type of their extremities (e.g., open or connected). A theoretical analysis of the density of such motifs in random and scale-free networks is described, and an algorithm for identifying these motifs in general networks is presented. The potential of considering chains for network characterization has been illustrated with respect to five categories of real-world networks including 16 cases. Several interesting findings were obtained, including the fact that several chains were observed in real-world networks, especially the world wide web, books, and the power grid. The possibility of chains resulting from incompletely sampled networks is also investigated.

Impact of Commercial Search Engines and International Databases on Engineering Teaching and Research

For the last three decades, the engineering higher education and professional environments have been completely transformed by the "electronic/digital information revolution" that has included the introduction of personal computer, the development of email and world wide web, and broadband Internet connections at home. Herein the writer compares the performances of several digital tools with traditional library resources. While new specialised search engines and open access digital repositories may fill a gap between conventional search engines and traditional references, these should be not be confused with real libraries and international scientific databases that encompass textbooks and peer-reviewed scholarly works. An absence of listing in some Internet search listings, databases and repositories is not an indication of standing. Researchers, engineers and academics should remember these key differences in assessing the quality of bibliographic "research" based solely upon Internet searches.

Molecular immunology databases and data repositories

Over recent years databases have become an extremely important resource for biomedical research. Immunology research is increasingly dependent on access to extensive biological databases to extract existing information, plan experiments, and analyse experimental results. This review describes 15 immunological databases that have appeared over the last 30 years. In addition, important issues regarding database design and the potential for misuse of information contained within these databases are discussed. Access pointers are provided for the major immunological databases and also for a number of other immunological resources accessible over the World Wide Web (WWW). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

MHCWeb: Converting a WWW database into a knowledge-based collaborative environment

The World Wide Web (WWW) is useful for distributing scientific data. Most existing web data resources organize their information either in structured flat files or relational databases with basic retrieval capabilities. For databases with one or a few simple relations, these approaches are successful, but they can be cumbersome when there is a data model involving multiple relations between complex data. We believe that knowledge-based resources offer a solution in these cases. Knowledge bases have explicit declarations of the concepts in the domain, along with the relations between them. They are usually organized hierarchically, and provide a global data model with a controlled vocabulary, We have created the OWEB architecture for building online scientific data resources using knowledge bases. OWEB provides a shell for structuring data, providing secure and shared access, and creating computational modules for processing and displaying data. In this paper, we describe the translation of the online immunological database MHCPEP into an OWEB system called MHCWeb. This effort involved building a conceptual model for the data, creating a controlled terminology for the legal values for different types of data, and then translating the original data into the new structure. The 0 WEB environment allows for flexible access to the data by both users and computer programs.

Special issue: Selected papers from the sixth IFIP 2.6 working conference on visual database systems: Guest editors' introduction

While multimedia data, image data in particular, is an integral part of most websites and web documents, our quest for information so far is still restricted to text based search. To explore the World Wide Web more effectively, especially its rich repository of truly multimedia information, we are facing a number of challenging problems. Firstly, we face the ambiguous and highly subjective nature of defining image semantics and similarity. Secondly, multimedia data could come from highly diversified sources, as a result of automatic image capturing and generation processes. Finally, multimedia information exists in decentralised sources over the Web, making it difficult to use conventional content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques for effective and efficient search. In this special issue, we present a collection of five papers on visual and multimedia information management and retrieval topics, addressing some aspects of these challenges. These papers have been selected from the conference proceedings (Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 1-4020- 7060-8) of the Sixth IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB6), held in Brisbane, Australia, on 29–31 May 2002.

The Object Management Group Ontology Definition Metamodel

Report of a submission being made to a major international software engineering standards group, the Object Management Group which ties together OMG standards with World-Wide Web Consortium and International Standards Organization standards. Major industry bodies including IBM are collaborating, and the submission has the support of 24 companies. OMG, W3C and ISO standards strongly influence the industry, especially in combination. Colomb was a major contributor, responsible for 30% of the submission, and the primary author of the paper.

Applying complex network theory to the understanding of high-aspect-ratio carbon-filled composites

This work demonstrates that the theoretical framework of complex networks typically used to study systems such as social networks or the World Wide Web can be also applied to material science, allowing deeper understanding of fundamental physical relationships. In particular, through the application of the network theory to carbon nanotubes or vapour-grown carbon nanofiber composites, by mapping fillers to vertices and edges to the gap between fillers, the percolation threshold has been predicted and a formula that relates the composite conductance to the network disorder has been obtained. The theoretical arguments are validated by experimental results from the literature.

Peppers, Don e Rogers, Martha, One to One B2B, Currency books, Double Day, Radon House Inc, Copyright, 2001

Há muito que se fala do fim do Marketing tal como o conhecemos. A segmentação cada vez maior de mercados e clientes e a importância da customização, tornaram obsoletas a maior parte das abordagens do marketing de massas. A evolução da economia e das TI (tecnologias da informação) e as consequentes alterações que esse processo implicou na cadeia de valor das empresas, nomeadamente das organizações de grande dimensão, fez com que o B2C –Business to Customer – tenha deixado de fazer sentido para estas empresas. O advento da World Wide Web e o impacto que as tecnologias «interactivas» têm actualmente sobre a economia, provocou grandes alterações nas relações entre as organizações e os seus clientes. Ao Marketing de massas sucedeu-se a relação individualizada cliente a cliente, emergente no B2B – Business to Business –one to one, onde mais importante do que as vendas é o relacionamento com o cliente que assume particular importância, nomeada mente em ordem à sua transição para outras zonas de negócio, como a Internet.

Formação combinada: reutilizando learning objects

O uso crescente da Internet (World Wide Web), e das suas potencialidades tecnológicas têm contribuído para uma proliferação de ambientes de ensino/aprendizagem, baseados em Tecnologia. A comunidade científica reúne consenso quanto às vantagens da reutilização de conteúdos de aprendizagem e à adopção de standards com vista à interoperabilidade entre conteúdos/objectos partilháveis e plataformas. Este artigo tem como objectivo reflectir sobre o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia de ensino combinada de aprendizagem com recurso a Learning Objects, no âmbito do trabalho de doutoramento.

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Comme pour la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Londres le 27 juillet 2012, organisée par le réalisateur de Trainspotting et de Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle, qui fit une récapitulation de tous les grands événements qui identifient la Grande-Bretagne et sa population : l’invention de nombreux sports, la révolution industrielle, la reine d’Angleterre et James Bond, l’humour , la littérature , l’inventeur des www (world wide web), l’écographie, les Hôpitaux , les nurses et les nounous , la musique , je me propose de cerner l’identité et l’âme françaises grâce à leurs caractéristiques et à des clichés, complétés par des nouvelles d’actualité, sans pour autant faire un hymne à la France. Notons au passage que la 1ère langue des J.O est le français, en hommage au baron Pierre de Coubertin. L’Article 23 de la Charte du Comité International Olympique a donné au français le status de langue officielle (comme l’anglais) depuis les J.O d’Athènes de 2004. De plus, les sportifs français ont remporté 34 médailles, essentiellement en natation (avec des nageurs qui s’entrainent surtout à Nice et à Marseille), au pistolet, au judo, en saut à la perche, en équitation, en hand-ball, en volley ball féminin, en taekwondo féminin, en cyclisme féminin... ; nous n’avons rien gagné en escrime. Ils ont été encouragés par F. Hollande, par Christine Lagarde, Présidente du FMI, ex-membre de l’équipe de France de natation synchronisée et par la Ministre des sports Valérie Fourneyrou. Nos sportifs et leurs supporteurs sont rentrés en France par l’Eurostar. Pour intéresser la classe, je m’efforce de parler d’événements que nos élèves auront vu à la télé ou sur Internet afin que ceux-ci puissent participer et donner leur point de vue, en les poussant à vérifier leurs informations dans les médias actuels.