IN much of the academic teaching of biology at the present time, the view is expressed or implied that biological classification is meaningless except as a more or less convenient device for filing ...

The extensive growth and use of electronic health records (EHRs) and extending medical literature have led to huge opportunities to automate the extraction of relevant clinical information that helps ...

NOTWITHSTANDING the number of British Floras already in existence, field-botanists have long lamented the want of a text-book combining all the requisites for out-of-door work, unquestionable accuracy ...

Assessing the Contribution of Scanned Outside Documents to the Completeness of Real-World Data Abstraction A rule-based algorithm was developed using SAS tools to automatically extract and categorize ...

Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 1/2 (2012), pp. 11-31 (21 pages) This paper analyses the place of natural history within Bacons divisions of the sciences in The Advancement of Learning (1605) ...