e-MIR2: a public online inventory of medical informatics resources

Background. Over the last years, the number of available informatics resources in medicine has grown exponentially. While specific inventories of such resources have already begun to be developed for Bioinformatics (BI), comparable inventories are as yet not available for Medical Informatics (MI) field, so that locating and accessing them currently remains a hard and time-consuming task. Description. We have created a repository of MI resources from the scientific literature, providing free access to its contents through a web-based service. Relevant information describing the resources is automatically extracted from manuscripts published in top-ranked MI journals. We used a pattern matching approach to detect the resources? names and their main features. Detected resources are classified according to three different criteria: functionality, resource type and domain. To facilitate these tasks, we have built three different taxonomies by following a novel approach based on folksonomies and social tagging. We adopted the terminology most frequently used by MI researchers in their publications to create the concepts and hierarchical relationships belonging to the taxonomies. The classification algorithm identifies the categories associated to resources and annotates them accordingly. The database is then populated with this data after manual curation and validation. Conclusions. We have created an online repository of MI resources to assist researchers in locating and accessing the most suitable resources to perform specific tasks. The database contained 282 resources at the time of writing. We are continuing to expand the number of available resources by taking into account further publications as well as suggestions from users and resource developers.

Innovation in public services: the case of Spanish local government

The present paper aims to determine the level of implementation of innovations in Spanish local government as well as to identify which types of innovations are most common. The paper also considers the link between innovative behavior and organizational size. However, since innovations cannot occur as isolated phenomena but rather as a part of corporate strategy, the study compares the innovative behavior of the local governments analyzed with their typologies or strategic profiles. In order to achieve the aforementioned aims, the paper uses a survey of the Human Resource Managers of Town Halls in the largest Spanish municipalities. The results of this survey show that the most frequent innovations in the local governments analyzed are collaborative; the largest town halls show more propensities to innovate and they focus on external relationships which are collaborative and on the basis on Information and Communication Technologies. The study reconfirms that town halls with a prospective profile are the most innovative.

Recent developments in Mexico and their economic implications for the United States : hearings before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Economic Relationships of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, January 17 and 24, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references.

Private investment in Latin America. A report of the Subcommittee on Inter-American Economic Relationships.

At head of title: 88th Congress, 2d session. Joint committee print.

Planning methodologies for analysis of land use/water quality relationships /

Mode of access: Internet.

Relationships between wholebody vibration and morbidity patterns among interstate truck drivers /

"Contract no. CDC-99-74-22."

Tri-level study: modification. Task 4: final report on the relationships between driver characteristics and accident causation.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Farms are growing larger : some relationships to individual farm planning, community development, national farm policies /

Cover title.

Host-parasite relationships of the clover cyst nematode, Heterodera trifolii Goffart /

Cover title.

Soil and plant relationships of fission products /

"Prepared for Presentation at the Hearings on Fallout Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, May 5-8, 1959."

Relationships between off-road fixed-object accident rates and roadway elements of urban highways. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Relationships between traffic conflicts and accidents, volume 2. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Effectiveness of alternative skid reduction measures. Volume I: evaluation of accident rate-skid number relationships. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Accident rates and surface properties - an investigation of relationships. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.