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Ontological Opportunism: [PDF]

open access: yesAnthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2021
Understanding inanimate ‘nature-as-such’ is traditionally considered the object of physics in Europe. The discipline acts as exemplary discursive practice of scientific knowledge production. However, as my ethnographic investigation of doing and communicating high energy physics demonstrates, animist conceptions seep into the ontological understanding ...
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Bringing ontology to the Gene Ontology [PDF]

open access: yesComparative and Functional Genomics, 2003
AbstractWe present an analysis of some considerations involved in expressing the Gene Ontology (GO) as a machine‐processible ontology, reflecting principles of formal ontology. GO is a controlled vocabulary that is intended to facilitate communication between biologists by standardizing usage of terms in database annotations.
Williams, Jennifer, Andersen, William
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Ontological Representation of Smart City Data: From Devices to Cities

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2018
Existing smart city ontologies allow representing different types of city-related data from cities. They have been developed according to different ontological commitments and hence do not share a minimum core model that would facilitate interoperability
Paola Espinoza-Arias   +3 more
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Winnowing ontologies based on application use [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended purposes.
A. Magkanaraki   +12 more
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Social ontologies [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
There is room for considerable cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience, but in order for this to happen we need to think about the interactions among brain–body–world, in which each of these three terms acts as cause and effect, without attributing a causally determinant position to any one.
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The Form of Organization for Small Business [PDF]

open access: yes, 1945
Matching and integrating ontologies has been a desirable technique in areas such as data fusion, knowledge integration, the Semantic Web and the development of advanced services in distributed system.
Breckenridge, M. S.
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Ontology-based metrics computation for business process analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Business Process Management (BPM) aims to support the whole life-cycle necessary to deploy and maintain business processes in organisations. Crucial within the BPM lifecycle is the analysis of deployed processes.
Domingue, John, Pedrinaci, Carlos
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Catholic Eschatological Imagination and the Mystics of Fire: Possible Perspectives for a Muslim–Christian Dialogue

open access: yesReligions, 2022
During the twentieth century, Catholic theology moved to reject the misuse of imaginaries of the afterlife. By insisting on a de-cosmologization of the “last things”, theologians endorsed a Christocentric eschatology.
Piotr Zygulski
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Ontological Pluralism and Multi-Quantificational Ontology [PDF]

open access: yesFoundations of Science, 2021
AbstractThis paper explores some variants and aspects of multi-quantificational criteria of existence, examining these in the context of the debate between monism and pluralism in analytical philosophy. Assuming familiarity with the findings to date (summarized in broad terms at the outset), we seek to apply to these the newly introduced concepts of ...
Zbigniew Król, Józef Lubacz
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A Levels-based Approach for Defining Software Measurement Architectures

open access: yesCLEI Electronic Journal, 2014
During the execution of software projects, it is necessary to collect, store and analyze data to support project and organizational decisions. Software measurement is a fundamental practice for project management and process improvement. It is present in
Ciro Xavier Maretto   +1 more
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