Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

Allen, Colin; Nodelman, Uri; Zalta, Edward N.

doi:10.1145/379437.379789

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“…This may be a broadening or narrowing of an existing sense of a term; a completely new usage of an existing term; or may involve the creation of a totally new term. It is a specification of how the author intends to use the term in the future within a particular work or context, and binds the author to making good on that intention (Zalta et al, 2009).…”

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Added value of elder abuse definitions: A review

Mysyuk

Westendorp

Lindenberg

2013

Ageing Research Reviews

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a b s t r a c tElder abuse has devastating consequences for older persons such as a poor quality of life, psychological distress, and loss of property and security. It is also associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Elder abuse is a problem that manifests itself in both rich and poor countries and at all levels of society. It is timely to discuss one of the basic problems that has hampered the study, detection and intervention of elder abuse as the variety of definitions that exist now produce a definitional chaos for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.In this article we trace the elements of "how to define elder abuse" and situate them in their socio-historical context. We also analyze the purposes of these different definitions to assess their appropriateness in different settings concerned with elder abuse. Our analysis shows that elder abuse mirrors the societal arrangements which gave rise to them. It also highlights that it is a complex problem that is difficult to define. The central question is whether we need a common definition of elder abuse or different definitions that can be used in different settings. By evidence of our analysis we can see that there is a need for a sufficiently broad and flexible definition in order to cover different behaviors that can constitute abuse and the various settings in which it may occur. On the other hand, the definition needs to be specific and concrete to be useful in professional contexts.To take a further step forward for both research and practice of elder abuse, we propose to consistently adhere to the WHO definition that leads the enquirer towards a better understanding of the problem and helps to distinguish it from other phenomena; and to a simplified definition for professional practice that sets boundaries to the phenomena and is appropriate for effective prevention and intervention measures.

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Section: Classification Of Definitionsmentioning

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Added value of elder abuse definitions: A review

Mysyuk

Westendorp

Lindenberg

2013

Ageing Research Reviews

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“…The deeper the concepts of a document appear in the WordNet hierarchy, the more readable the document is, since the concepts will be more specific and ambiguity will be less likely [33]. The scope of a document d is computed according to Formula 5, as the average depth of all concepts in the document divided by the maximum depth of the concept hierarchy -i.e., 16 in the case of WordNet.…”

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Lightweight Semantic based Approach to Assess Readability of Web Service Interfaces

Renzis¹,

Garriga²,

Flores³

et al. 2017

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A Web Service has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Service providers expose their services by publishing their WSDL documents. Service consumers can learn about service capabilities and how to interact with services. Service descriptions (WSDL documents) should be ideally understood easily by service stakeholders so that the process of consuming services is simplified. In this work we present a practical metric to quantify readability in WSDL documents. We adapted and extended an existing ontology-based semantic readability metric to focus on WSDL documents by using WordNet as a lightweight concept hierarchy. We have validated our approach by performing both qualitative and quantitative experiments. The first one consists of a controlled survey with a group of service consumers. The results showed that consumers (software engineers) required less time and effort to analyze WSDL documents with higher readability values. The second experiment compares our approach with two ontology-based approaches. The third experiment compares the readability values of a dataset of real-life service descriptions before and after rewriting them. The results showed the effectiveness of our approach to assess readability of Web Services interfaces.

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“…In philosophy, this concept is known as the "identity of indiscernibles" [2]. The complete definition of a geographical object involves the definition of its identity and spatiality, which can vary over time.…”

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Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Identity: States of Existence and Presence

Hallot¹,

Billen²

2016

IJGI

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This work presents a new approach that aims to characterize the spatio-temporal relationships that exist between geographical objects that are absent or non-existent at the moment of analysis. First, we would like to propose a formal analysis of the spatio-temporal states of presence and existence of a geographical object. We will then use a combination of these states in order to define a set of life and motion configurations. The model developed then serves as a formal basis for the realization of a series of spatio-temporal queries based on an analysis of patterns in the succession of spatio-temporal states. The entire approach is then demonstrated by using the example of the organization of a scientific conference by defining the spatio-temporal relationships between the conference participants. The research methodology is finally compared with a real dataset taken from a geolocalized social network to show the efficiency of this type of management.

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Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

Cited by 131 publications

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Added value of elder abuse definitions: A review

Added value of elder abuse definitions: A review

Lightweight Semantic based Approach to Assess Readability of Web Service Interfaces

Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Identity: States of Existence and Presence

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