If you're looking to track the transition to the Obama administration in real time, make sure you're going to the right Web site. It turns out there are two sites called "Change," and they present vastly different visions of "change

University of Delaware) A University of Delaware-led research team embarks on an extreme adventure plunging deep into the sea to study hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. They'll share the experience with 20,000-plus school children through interactive sessions.

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) The newly implemented Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean, German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, goes into operation today and with this, the system enters its final phase of optimization

Census of Marine Life) A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine species is one of the research results announced Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de las Artes y

ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies) Coral reef scientists and policy makers from the world's most prominent coral reef nations are meeting in Australia this week to develop urgent action plans to rescue the world's richest center of

International partnership will include Ohio public schools

A remote area of southwest India provides evidence that farming can support species conservation, according to a new study. Published Nov. 3 in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences', the study reveals that an agricultural landscape in this

In this paper, we consider the problem of selecting the most effective set of reporter genes for analysis of biological networks using cell microarrays. We propose two graph theoretic formulations of the reporter gene allocation problem, and show that both

In the recent past, several peer-to-peer based RDF stores have emerged in order to cope with large amounts of RDF data that are queried by many clients concurrently. Efficient query evaluation is a central issue in order to exploit the

In this paper, we propose a novel query formalism for literature search, which is based on description logics and variable-strength conditional preferences. Query languages of current search engines are very restricted in their expressive power. There are scientific search engines

Statistical methods for automated document indexing are becoming an alternative to the manual assignment of keywords. We argue that the quality of the thesaurus used as a basis for indexing in regard to its ability to adequately cover the contents

This paper presents an extension of the KIM semantic annotation and search platform called CORE: Co-Occurrence and Ranking of Entities. It enables popularity timeline analysis and a novel faceted search interface. The idea and its advantages to the traditional keyword

Data discovery on the Semantic Web requires crawling and indexing of statements, in addition to the 'linked-data' approach of de-referencing resource URIs. Existing Semantic Web search engines are focused on database-like functionality, compromising on index size, query performance and live

Automatically recognising which HTML documents on the Web contain items of interest for a user is non-trivial. As a step toward solving this problem, we propose an approach based on information-extraction ontologies. Given HTML documents, tables, and forms, our document

Field trips may be fewer and further between at some schools this year, thanks to tight school budgets and an uncertain economy.

In the cramped but cheerfully decorated nurse's office at Dwight Rich magnet school, Marybeth Braddick has just given 13-year-old Raven Wanger an asthma treatment.

Seven new videos for you this week. We start off with the conclusion to the popular video series 'Writing effective Snort rules,' and continue with the demonstration of backup and restore tools for Check Point. Disk mirroring for Nokia and

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