This is the presentation of Mendeley at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2008 in Barcelona. Last.fm has managed to create the largest ontological classification (and the largest open database) of music in the world, by aggregating the musical tastes of its 20 million users and then data-mining it for similar musical genres, artists, and songs. [...]
Research
Senior Year Research Project: Developing Microsatellite Markers
Microsatellite markers are dinucleotide repeats located in the noncoding regions of nuclear DNA. They are known as neutral markers because there is no selection on noncoding DNA sequences, and they are highly heritable by offspring. They can undergo mutations that either make the sequences longer or shorter, and these mutations occur at a quantifiable rate, [...]
Cybersecurity: who’s watching the store? Government is not doing all it could to research the problem or to exercise its proper regulatory role.: An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 5233 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your [...]
Rethinking the “L” Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership: ASHE Higher Education Report
Product DescriptionIn these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful [...]