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    the usefulness of management research approaches will be observed. The influence of politics and ethics should be also considered in this essay. Researchers debate about ontology and epistemology According to Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Jackson (2012) ontology is mainly the first discussion point among researchers. Ontology deals with the question how a researcher perceives the nature of reality. Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Jackson (2012) distinct four different paradigms: Realism, Internal Realism

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    The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) facilitates the study of disease-phenotype relationships (5-7). The goal of the HPO is to provide accurate and precise clinical descriptions of diseases and yield valuable clues to the molecular pathophysiology of a given patient (6, 8, 9). They are especially important in cases of rare and undiagnosed diseases where clinical experts may use different terms to describe similar clinical phenotypes (10). The construction of ontologies requires content expertise

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    What is ontology? Basically, the term of ontology is derives from Greek and “onto” meaning and “logos” interpreted as “science”, that’s mean ontology can be understood as a science or study of being. The word can be divided into two senses such as exist an entity thing. Other than that this word is about what to be or to exist. According to Nicola (2009)” the word ontology can be used with different meaning in different communication. John Sowa (1998) study found that subject of ontology is the study

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    Ontology of Information Security in Enterprises Stephen Schiavone1, Lalit Garg2 and Kelly Summers3 1University of Liverpool, Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA 2University of Liverpool, University of Malta, Malta 3Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA steve.schiavone@my.ohecampus.com lalit.garg@my.ohecampus.com krsummers@sbcglobal.net Abstract: Today’s global free-market enterprise is reliant on the interconnectedness of social, economic and political ecosystems. Enterprises no longer maintain

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    steps which are discussed briefly in the following subsections: Developing the domain ontologies of the selected methodologies. Performing ontology alignment (Matching). Creating a conceptual model that helps generate new tools. Figure 2. The Proposed Approach Developing the Domain Ontologies of Selected

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    importance, the question of what exist. W.V. Quine seeks to highlight ontologies purpose, and ultimately their function in his paper, “On What There Is”. This paper was very influential in the philosophical world in term to what we consider as ontology. In this paper, we will go through Quine’s thought process on the question of non-being and the use of descriptive statements to cut through what Quine actually considers as ontology. Then from there we will explore the problem of holes and come to

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    their particular needs. In this paper, we report on research that adapts information retrieval based on a user profile. Ontology models are widely used to represent user profiles in personalized web information retrieval. Many models have utilized only knowledge from either a global knowledge base or a user local information for representing user profiles. A personalized ontology model is used for knowledge representation and reasoning over user profiles. This model uses ontological user profiles

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    The Ontological Files

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    The authors[7] presented an approach in which ontological profiles are built. Ontology is considered to be a hierarchy of topics which is used to classify and categorise web pages. It is also used to identify the topics in which the particular user is interested. Ontology has some existing concepts to which interest scores are assigned. Keeping the reference ontology, these profiles are maintained and updated. With observing the ongoing behaviour, a spreading activation algorithm was proposed for

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    The world is a large place filled with many diverse cultures. Within these different cultures, unique languages and ways of healing have risen. Due to overpopulation and the constant need for new technology, these cultures have come together to create a better way of life. The problem we face today is not finding the sources of medication, but the communication barrier between science and the community. Community Health Worker Programmes During the late Apartheid era in South Africa: Apartheid

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    AND OF EDUCOLOGY Introduction In the Introduction, the philosophy of quantum physics and the philosophy of educology will be characterized in respect to five established cultural aspects of philosophy , i.e. in respect to the aspects: (1) of ontology as philosophy of what exists, (2) of metaphysics as philosophy of what exists and is real, (3) of epistemology as philosophy of what knowledge is, (4) of logic as philosophy of inquiry entailing an epistemology, (5) of axiology philosophy of

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