Access to digitised specimen data is a vital means to distribute information and in turn create knowledge. Pooling the accessibility of specimen and observation data under common standards and harnessing the power of distributed datasets places more and more information…

Emily Dickinson wrote, “I dwell in Possibility—A fairer House than Prose—More Numerous of Windows—Superior—for Doors” (p. 657). Dickinson’s simple yet profound reference to the expansive nature of poetry over prose may be taken as a metaphor for the possibilities of…

Natural science collections comprise a small component of a more extensive source of data on which questions about the natural world may be addressed. However, NHC data offer, when digitised, an exceptional resource: within collections lies the most extensive dataset…

A survey on the challenges and concerns invovled with digitizing natural history specimens was circulated to curators, collections managers, and administrators in the natural history community in the Spring of 2009, with over 200 responses received. The overwhelming barrier to…

This work develops a process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) at the Higher Polytechnic Institute José Antonio Echeverría for the group of Environmental Research in collaboration with the Center of Information Management and Energy Development (CUBAENERGÍA) in order to…

Ryerson University’s Prior Learning and Competency Evaluation and Documentation (PLACED) program is funded by the Government of Ontario to engage internationally educated professionals (IEPs), employers, and regulatory/occupational bodies in the use of competency-based practices. In 2008, the authors created a…

A distribuição generalizada de valores extremos (GEV) desempenha um PAPEL fundamental em estudos relacionados a medições físicas, em que é aplicada com a finalidade de descrever o comportamento de eventos raros Como esses valores são extraídos da cauda superior (ou…

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El objetivo de KNOW2 es avanzar en el desarrollo de un entorno integrado que permita la implantación a bajo coste de portales verticales de acceso a la información para dominios concretos. El proyecto tiene una duración de tres años y…

The article provides up-to-date knowledge about the availability and use of emergency contraception (EC) necessary for primary care nurses. Emergency contraception is defined as a post-coital method under female control which produces an effect before implantation. The three licensed forms…