ETHNOZOOLOGY: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional...
The Cost of Developing Large-Scale Software
The work of software cost forecasting falls into two parts. First we make what we call structural forecasts, and then we calculate the absolute...
Statement map: assisting information crediblity analysis by visualizing arguments
In this paper we introduce Statement Map, a project designed to help users navigate the vast amounts of information on the internet and come...
Algorithmic detection of semantic similarity
Automatic extraction of semantic information from text and links in Web pages is key to improving the quality of search results. However, the assessment...
DARWIN AS A PLANT SCIENTIST: A SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE PERSPECTIVE
Events around the world this year celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and the sesquicentenary of publication of his most...
Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web
Abstract Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and...
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: MY TIME WITH THE PARASITES
It is my honor to have served the American Society of Parasitologists as its President in 2014–2015. I became a member in 1980 and...
Suggested Practices for Installations Using Horizontal Directional Drilling
In recent years, the utilization of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) in urban areas for the installation of telecommunication, utilities, or municipal services has experienced...
Complexity and Project Management: A General Overview
As projects have become more and more complex, there has been an increasing concern about the concept of project complexity. An understanding of project...
BIG DATA WITH CLOUD COMPUTING: AN INSIGHT ON THE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT,...
The term 'Big Data' has spread rapidly in the framework of Data Mining and Business Intelligence. This new scenario can be defined by means...
Project Management Topic Coverage in Recent Conferences
The paper presents an analysis of the relative frequency of attention to project management body of knowledge topics in papers presented at recent Project...
EXPLORATIONS IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Preface. I. CORPUS DEVELOPMENT: METHODS AND ISSUES. Kristine HASUND: Protecting the innocent: The issue of informants' anonymity in the COLT corpus Error! Bookmark not...
Key topics in conservation biology 2
Preface. List of Contributors. List of Boxes. 1. The Pathology of Biodiversity Loss: the Practice of Conservation: Chris R. Dickman (University of Sydney), Stuart...
A topic modeling toolbox using belief propagation
A topic modeling toolbox using belief propagation
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is an important hierarchical Bayesian model for probabilistic topic modeling, which attracts worldwide interests...
MEASURING BIODIVERSITY FROM DNA IN THE AIR
Highlights • Environmental DNA can be collected from air samples collected in open environments • Vertebrate eDNA carried in the air can be used...