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TAMPA — Hillsborough County will see several competitive judicial races, but less competition for congressional seats, as result of candidate filings this week.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa and Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Palm Harbor will both return to new terms in Congress with no opposition because no one filed to run against them by the noon Friday deadline.
Republican Rep. Dennis Ross of Lakeland faces a challenge from a former investigative reporter for a local television station, Alan Cohn. Republican Tom Rooney of Okeechobee will see another challenge from the Democrat he easily defeated in 2010, Will Bronson of LeHigh Acres.
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♦ Former state Rep. Michael Scionti will face Michael John Brannigan for the Group 19 seat, replacing retiring Chief Judge Manny Menendez Jr.
♦ Former prosecutor Karen Stanley will face Laura Ward for the Group 20 seat, replacing retiring Judge Sam Pendino.
♦ Robert Bauman. Constance Daniels and Melissa "Missy" Polo will compete for the Group 34 seat, replacing retiring Judge James Barton II.
♦ At the county court level, there will be one competitive race. Norman S. Cannella Jr. and Chris Nash will compete for the group 12 seat.
All the judicial candidates are practicing lawyers and by law, all run without party affiliation, although at least two, Dingfelder and Scionti, have histories of political involvement as Democrats -- Dingfelder as a party activist and Scionti as a state House member.
Castor has never faced strong Republican competition in her district. The district includes areas of central St. Petersburg and South Shore along with most of Tampa.
In 2012, she beat Evelio Otero 70-30 percent.
Bilirakis's district includes the northwestern corner of Hillsborough County.
Ross's 15th district covers most of the eastern half of Hillsborough County. A former state House member long active in the Republican Party, he won the seat over Polk County elections Supervisor Lori Edwards in 2010 and was unopposed in 2012.
Cohn is making his first run for public office after leaving Tampa's ABC affiliate WFTS, Channel 28, in June 2012.
Rooney's district covers part or all of 10 counties, stretching from Glades and Okeechobee to Polk and parts of southern Hillsborough.
A lawyer, he narrowly unseated former Democratic Rep. Tim Mahoney in 2008 and was re-elected since. He's a Philadelphia native and a member of the family that owns the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Barton, a Chicago native, former naval aviator and airline pilot and a motivational speaker, lost to Rooney 59 percent to 41 percent in 2012.
In the Group 34 judicial race, Bauman is former head coach of the Jesuit High School varsity soccer team with a law practice specializing in banking and finance. Daniels is an active community volunteer and former assistant public defender and works with the state Office of Regional Counsel, which represents indigent defendants; Polo is a former prosecutor who now specializes in personal injury and malpractice litigation.
In Group 20, Stanley is former head of the sex crimes and child abuse section of the Hillsborough County State Attorney's office, and former chief assistant to State Attorney Mark Ober; Ward, a member of the large DLA Piper law firm, is active in pro bono work, including founding and heading a free legal clinic for veterans at James A. Haley VA Hospital.
In Group 19, Scionti has a long resume including serving as an assistant state attorney, assistant attorney general, and a military magistrate, diplomat aned Bronze Star winner while serving with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brannigan, with the Hogan Law Firm, has worked in criminal and civil law in several counties in the Tampa area and is city attorney for Crystal River.
In Group 8, Dingfelder is a former public defender with civil and criminal experience who served from 2003-2010 on the Tampa City Council; Hinson is a Tampa native and personal injury lawyer with 27 years' experience; Thomas formerly worked for Hillsborough County attorney's office and for the Department of Justice in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and has done general practice in Tampa since 2001.


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1:14pm Wednesday 28th May 2014 in News
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague took time out from his busy schedule to formally open a new dementia centre.
The Richmondshire MP was in Northallerton to open Bluebell House, the Alzheimer's Society's new day care centre on the Omega Business Park.
He met with service users and carers as well as Alzheimer's Society staff and volunteers and was given a tour of the centre's new facilities, before cutting the ribbon,
The Society's local services manager Pam Crawford said: "We were delighted and very grateful to Mr Hague for sparing us time from his busy schedule to visit our new day centre and support this service for people with dementia.
"Being diagnosed with dementia can be a daunting and overwhelming experience but this service offers a calm, social environment in which people with dementia can take part in activities they enjoy and meet new people.
"With the right support, it is possible to live well with dementia, and we would encourage anyone who is worried about their memory, or that of a loved one to seek help today."
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Scientists Find New Form of Prion Disease that Damages Brain Arteries
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries.
The study results, reported by NIH scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), are similar to findings from two newly reported human cases of the prion disease Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS). This finding represents a new mechanism of prion disease brain damage, according to study author Bruce Chesebro, M.D., chief of the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, primarily damage the brain. Prion diseases include mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle; scrapie in sheep; sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), variant CJD and GSS in humans; and chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose.
The role of a specific cell anchor for prion protein is at the crux of the NIAID study. Normal prion protein uses a specific molecule, glycophosphoinositol (GPI), to fasten to host cells in the brain and other organs. In their study, the NIAID scientists genetically removed the GPI anchor from study mice, preventing the prion protein from fastening to cells and thereby enabling it to diffuse freely in the fluid outside the cells.
The scientists then exposed those mice to infectious scrapie and observed them for up to 500 days to see if they became sick. The researchers documented signs typical of prion disease including weight loss, lack of grooming, gait abnormalities and inactivity. But when they examined the brain tissue, they did not observe the sponge-like holes in and around nerve cells typical of prion disease. Instead, the brains contained large accumulations of prion protein plaques trapped outside blood vessels in a disease process known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which damages arteries, veins and capillaries in the brain. In addition, the normal pathway by which fluid drains from the brain appeared to be blocked.
Their study, Dr. Chesebro says, indicates that prion diseases can be divided into two groups: those with plaques that destroy brain blood vessels and those without plaques that lead to the sponge-like damage to nerve cells. Dr. Chesebro says the presence or absence of the prion protein anchor appears to determine which form of disease develops.
The new mouse model used in the study and the two new human GSS cases, which also lack the usual prion protein cell anchor, are the first to show that in prion diseases, the plaque-associated damage to blood vessels can occur without the sponge-like damage to the brain. If scientists can find an inhibitor for the new form of prion disease, they might be able to use the same inhibitor to treat similar types of damage in Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Chesebro says.
Scientists from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Scotland also participated in the study.
Article: B Chesebro et al. Fatal transmissible amyloid encephalopathy: A new type of prion disease associated with lack of prion protein membrane anchoring. PLoS Pathogens 6(3): e1000800. DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000800 (2010).
Bruce Chesebro, M.D., chief, NIAID Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, is available to comment on this article.
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tobacco in toilet at check in, cigarette burns all over the room, room had an awful odor, holes in curtains, peeling paint, run down elevator.Would not stay here again.
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There was only two Customer Service Clerks Karlos and Brittany who were very helpful.
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The price was very reasonable. It was Forcastle week and most other hotels had jacked up their prices.
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The room was great. Had everything we might need. Staff was super friendly. Would definatley stay again!
There wasn't much to the breakfast. It was very basic, but still good. Not many choices. It was fine for adults, but kids might have a hard time finding something they want on it.It was a very nice hotel. We didn't use the pool, but it looked big enough, and well kept. The room was great, perfect size with everything you would need. The grounds were nice. It was a little hard to find because there just isn't any signage on the main road.
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It is in a quiet part of town. Breakfast was sufficient and decent. Very nice hotel while in Louisville, KY...just cross the bridge.
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We hear all the time about the consumerization of IT. It almost gets as much prime headline real estate as big data, but now that we've all started accepting that consumerization is here—what are we going to do with it?
Hopefully your answer revolves around expanding and growing your business, because that's what you should be doing, and what those who truly understand consumerization are already seeing within their own enterprises.
While it's been nice to believe that we employees and end-users of enterprise software are the force behind consumerization (we are, after all, the consumers mentioned in the phrase,) InfoWorld's Galen Gruman points out that "business itself has driven the shift to employee-directed tech." In other words, our smartphones and tablets that we all refused to leave home certainly played a role in consumerization, but the increased productivity and business growth that can be achieved by embracing this shift ultimately led to the decision to embrace such a trend.
On top of the business than can be gained through IT consumerization, Galen points out all that can be lost:
The more you try to control employee-oriented technology, the more it costs you and the less safe you are…. When you rigidly control the technology and processes of knowledge workers, they actively work around you—and against you.
In the early days of consumerization, IT departments fretted at the thought of all the new security holes, policies, and data loss that they would be responsible for, should their organization allow it. But Galen also notes that employees should share the responsibility for the security of the devices they clamored for, or in many cases, simply began using without any approval by IT. Galen uses a parent/teen analogy to describe the new relationship between IT and fellow employees:
…The safest, cheapest approach is the "wise parent" approach: Use a mix of policies, incentives, and education to help your teen become a self-sufficient adult. The incentive is the right to use a device of their own choosing; the policies channel that use in safe ways, and education helps both reduce resistance to some burdensome but truly necessary policies and increase self-vigilance by the employee…
In a recent interview with Madrona Ventures' Matt McIlwain, Matt discussed the idea behind the empowered enterprise 2.0, how it's defined, and how it came to be. Like Galen, Matt made sure to point out that it's not just about empowerment; accountability is also a major factor for consumerization and BYOD to provide value. Matt remarked that employees lucky enough to be a part of the empowered enterprise 2.0 should be saying to themselves:
Hey, okay I got the freedom. I got to go do the things I wanted to do, but what did I deliver as a result?" Whether I'm a team, part of a team that's going to deliver a next generation product or I'm part of a business team that because I got to pick my apps, I was expected to deliver a better marketing solution, or a better sales solution or whatever it might be within my organization.
As enterprise IT consumerization grows, remember that had an immense business value not been found within the trend, especially coming from happier and more productive employees, the rate of consumerization's growth would be far slower, if noticeable at all.
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A note on the returns from minimum variance investing
AbstractDisappointed with the performance of market weighted benchmark portfolios yet skeptical about the merits of active portfolio management, investors in recent years turned to alternative index definitions. Minimum variance investing is one of these popular concepts. I show in this paper that the portfolio construction process behind minimum variance investing implicitly picks up risk-based pricing anomalies. In other words the minimum variance tends to hold low beta and low residual risk stocks. Long/short portfolios based on these characteristics have been associated in the empirical literature with risk adjusted outperformance. This paper shows that 83% of the variation of the minimum variance portfolio excess returns (relative to a capitalization weighted alternative) can be attributed to the FAMA/FRENCH factors as well as to the returns on two characteristic anomaly portfolios. All regression coefficients (factor exposures) are highly significant, stable over the estimation period and correspond remarkably well with our economic intuition. The paper also shows that a direct combination of market weighted benchmark portfolio and risk based characteristic portfolios will provide a statistically significant improvement over the indirect pickup via the minimum variance portfolio.
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(Bardwell, KY.) -- Kentucky State Police Detective Kyle Nall charged Jay Pender, 43 of Milburn, KY with Murder, in connection with the death of Scott Daniel McBride. The Carlisle County Grand Jury returned a true bill after the investigation was presented on Thursday, July 18, 2013 by Detective Nall. Pender was lodged in the Hickman County Jail.
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KSP Investigating Shooting in Carlisle County
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(Milburn, KY.) -- On Friday, June 14, 2013, at approximately 6:45 PM, Kentucky State Police received a 911 call from Carlisle County Deputy Coroner Laura Pender in reference to a shooting that took place outside of her residence. Pender explained to the 911 Dispatchers that her husband, Jay Pender, 43, of Milburn, had been involved in an altercation with her brother, and the altercation ended with gunfire. The altercation and subsequent shooting led to the death of Scott Daniel McBride, 49, of Milburn.
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BFF Bridal Best in Honeymoons recap
Last night I checked out the always great BFF Bridal Best in Honeymoons event at the Jumeirah Essex Hotel. If you were looking for honeymoon locations and ideas, this was definitely the place to be…lots of exotic locations were represented, like Thailand and the Maldives. Since my honeymoon was long gone, I was glad to see some familiar faces…Jennifer Behr showed off some of her fabulous hairpieces [Gossip Girl is a HUGE fan], Bee from Weddingbee and Lisa Hoffman from Ceci New York were there, Mark Ingram had these 2 lovely ladies above walking around in gorgeous dresses…it was almost too much to handle! Good job BFF Bridal!
[oh, and because I'm totally lame and love celebrity sightings, I would be remiss to not mention that David Faustino was at the hotel..remember him from Married With Children?]
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6 Comments to "BFF Bridal Best in Honeymoons recap"
Xochitl Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
So funny, he was on the Today Show this morning (David Faustino that is). Looks awesome, so sorry I missed it!
Barret Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I am curious – i love the dress on the right, but couldn't track it down, do you perhaps know the specific designer?
Mary Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Hi Vane,
Just wanted to say thank you for the tickets to the BFF Honeymoon event last night. It was very informative and I am now obsessed with Jennifer Behr!
Brianna Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Thanks from me too! I won tickets and it was SO much fun. I'm pretty sure I saw Vane there too (speaking of celebrity sightings!)
We got our hair done by the people at the Paul Lebracque booth, did a faux photo shoot, and drank bright green martinis!
SO much fun!
Vane Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
did anyone else get totally hammered off those Midori margaritas?? maybe i'm just a cheap date.
Globetrotting Bride Says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
So sorry I missed this. I heard it was really great. Vane, I included you in a top ten this week. Thought you'd enjoy! http://globetrottingbride.blogspot.com/2009/01/are-you-globetrotting-bride-check-here.html
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text: Combined Usage of Ontologies and Folksonomies in E-learning Environments Scott Bateman Dragan Gašević Abstract Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing and This paper describes a working prototype which University of Saskatchewan Information Systems, illustrates how socially constructed knowledge 176 Thorvaldson Building Athabasca University (specifically through collaborative tagging) can support Saskatoon, SA, Canada 1University Drive domain experts to enrich ontological domain email@example.com Athabasca, AB, Canada representations. E-learning has a particular firstname.lastname@example.com requirement for a simple yet reliable ontology Jelena Jovananović enrichment approach since domain experts usually lack School of Business Marek Hatala knowledge engineering skills and domain Administration, School of Interactive Arts and representations are undergoing constant refinement. University of Belgrade Technology, Our prototype serves to demonstrate our belief that the Jove Ilica 154 Simon Fraser University user interface of semantic-rich systems must be Belgrade, Serbia 250-13450 102 Ave. intuitive and necessarily simplistic, and provide support email@example.com Surrey, BC, Canada to the user at each step of the enrichment process. email@example.com Carlo Torniai Keywords School of Interactive Arts and Ontologies, Folksonomies, E-learning, Semantic Web, Technology, Web 2.0 Simon Fraser University 250-13450 102 Ave. ACM Classification Keywords Surrey, BC, Canada H.1.2 [User/Machine Systems]: Human factors email@example.com K.3 [Computing Milieux]: Computers and Education; K.3.1 [Computer Uses in Education]: Collaborative Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). learning, Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) CHI 2008, April 5 – April 10, 2008, Florence, Italy H.3.m [Information Storage and Retrieval]: ACM 1-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Miscellaneous 2 Introduction persistent over subsequent offerings of web-based E-learning research can be split into two main groups: courses. However, course content continually evolves the first aims at creating e-learning environments that through the addition, removal, and refining of concepts adapt lessons and activities to the abilities and needs of and lessons. an individual learner; and the second aims to overcome physical separation by better connecting learners and Ontologies and Collaborative Tagging in E-Learning instructors. We generally associate two main Web- The continuous changes to a course and its content oriented approaches with these groups: semantic web have been traditionally made by an instructor without technologies are often used to enable personalized much thought on how it could impact the domain learning environments; while Web 2.0 technologies are ontology or annotated content. We view collaborative often used by educational technologists to easily tagging as providing a potential two-part solution to the connect learners with each other and their teachers. difficulties of maintaining domain ontologies. First, However, in light of recent research [5], we feel that tagging is a simple and straight-forward method which these technological approaches are not fundamentally would allow more authors to become involved. Learners incompatible. In fact, we explain and show how socially may be able help supply new domain knowledge, since constructed knowledge can be used to enrich when considering a group of taggers, common tags tend to ontologically engineered knowledge to facilitate new represent actual domain concepts more accurately [7]. methods of personalized adaptation and instructor feedback, while still maintaining the connectedness of Secondly, collaborative tagging software has been social software in e-learning systems. Enabling our shown to provide a source of social support that users approach is an intuitive user interface which is based may employ in their own authoring process (e.g. tag on established visualizations and simple interactions. suggestions or viewing a tag cloud describing a We provide a new interaction method for domain resource) [6]. experts to manually enrich domain ontologies from folksonomy sources. Connecting Folksonomies and Ontologies We see several advantages from connecting E-Learning Research folksonomies and ontologies. First, it provides a way for Much of the personalization research in e-learning is learning content to be semantically annotated on an focused on leveraging semantic web technologies to ongoing basis (i.e. if tags were directly linked to create semantic-rich e-learning systems. These ontology concepts, the concepts would then be systems rely on ontological representation of the entire automatically associated with the tagged content). e-learning process which is often logically divided into Given this scenario a number of new functionalities several layers representing features of the learning could be enabled for students, such as automatic content, the domain of instruction, the chosen feedback to students on concepts they may have instructional model, and the characteristics of learners' missed in readings, indicated by the coverage of the and instructors [2]. Most of these ontologies are fairly tags in their folksonomy. In addition, the tags 3 associated with the domain would allow instructors to educational tool which provides instructors with have feedback on the progression and understanding of feedback regarding: (i) different kinds of activities their students in the class and to use this feedback in the students performed and/or took part in during the ontology enrichment process. learning process; (ii) the usage and the comprehensibility of the learning content and (iii) Currently there are two main approaches for linking contextualized social interactions among students (i.e. folksonomies and ontologies. The first relies on altering social networking) in the virtual learning environment. the collaborative tagging process so that it creates Our extensions to LOCO-Analyst are shown in Figure 1. "semantic tags". Semantic tags have either been disambiguated by a user (i.e. tags are mapped to The domain ontology is presented using a graph concepts in an upper-level ontology) [2], or tag visualization. The instructor can explore the graph by relationships have been defined by the community [4]. zooming in and out, and reorienting the graph view by Neither method has proven to be overly successful. We clicking and dragging nodes. attribute this to the fact that the additional effort required by typical taggers in creating the semantic Support from the folksonomic data is presented to the tags, outweighs the perceived benefits. instructors in the form of a tag cloud. We have two feedback variables of interest to present to the Another approach has the ambitious goal of instructors for support in enriching the domain automatically or semi-automatically linking ontology. The first is the popularity of a tag, which is collaborative tags with ontologies. While, these calculated by the number of times a given tag has been approaches have had some promising results they have used to annotate a particular piece of learning content. not yet revealed a general purpose and reliable solution The second is the measured semantic relatedness [1]. between a tag and an ontology concept. We gather the semantic relatedness scores by using the Normalized Ontology Enrichment using Folksonomic Search Similarity algorithm for Wikipedia provided by a Support web API for semantic relatedness [7]. Given our anecdotal experience we believe that e- learning instructors desire control and precision both in We performed a pilot study of 3 alternative tag their interactions with students and in the process of visualizations, which asked 10 participants with defining and maintaining domain ontologies, but usually teaching experience to choose their preferred lack the in-depth knowledge required to use a typical visualization. The goal was to inform us on which type ontology editor. For this reason, we have opted for an of folksonomy visualization would work best for instructor controlled enrichment approach based on instructors. We alternatively mapped font size, colour, interactions with visualizations. We have embedded a and a ranked list to tag popularity. The most highly prototype for our approach as an extension to the ranked alternative was selected for our system, which LOCO-Analyst system [2]. LOCO-Analyst is an used tag size. Each of the alternatives mapped 4 semantic relatedness to the saturation of the tag colour relatedness). We are currently in the process of (the higher the score the darker the tag appears). Our incorporating the system into an online class, where we resulting visualization is consistent with typical tag will conduct a case study to evaluate the usefulness, cloud displays. visualizations and interactions of the system. 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A., Eap, T., A tag cloud from the prototype enrichment, without a requirement for knowledge Devedžić, V., Hatala, M., Richards, G. LOCO-Analyst: system: size indicates popularity, and engineering skills. Semantic Web Technologies to Analyze the Use of saturation represents semantic Learning Content. In Int. J. of Continuing Engineering relatedness to a selected ontology Education and Life-Long Learning, vol. 18, no.1, 2008. concept. [4] Lachica, R. Towards holistic knowledge creations and interchange Part 1: Socio-semantic collaborative tagging. Talk at TMRA 2007.http://www.informatik.uni- leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/slides/lachica_TMRA2007.pdf. (2007) [5] Mika, P. Ontologies Are Us: A Unified Model of Figure 1. The LOCO-Analyst prototype, which provides Social Networks and Semantics. In Proc. ISWC 2005. interactive visualizations for ontology enrichment. (2005) [6] Millen, D., and Feinberg, J. Using Social Tagging to Discussion Improve Social Navigation. In Proc Workshop on Social Our novel method of interactive visualizations provides Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation an intuitive and practical way for instructors to Technologies at AH '06. (2006) incorporate the implicit feedback available from student [7] Sen, S., Lam, S., Rashid, A., Cosley, D., folksonomies to evolve domain ontologies. Further, it Frankowski, D., Osterhouse, J., Harper, M., and Riedl, allows instructors to maintain full control over the J. tagging, community, vocabulary, evolution. In Proc. CSCW '06. (2006) 181-190. ontology enrichment process, while receiving feedback about how students are progressing (represented in the [8] Veksler, V. D., Grintsvayg, A., Lindsey, R., & Gray, An interactive ontology graph tags used) and potential similarities to the domain W. D. A proxy for all your semantic needs. In Proc. visualization. CogSci2007. (2007) ontology (represented in the scores of semantic


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