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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Taxonomic knowledge"”.
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Intensional subsumption in a general taxonomic knowledge representation language
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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A phylogeny of the genus Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae, Araneidae) with an examination of sexually dimorphic characters in the subfamily Gasteracanthinae
… of the genera and there is still considerable taxonomic confusion about the status of some of the species in this subfamily; in particular, within the biggest genus: Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833. This thesis represents the largest work on Gasteracantha since the studies by Dahl (1914) and …
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The Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Stone Oaks (Lithocarpus)
… questions. Chapter 2 addresses a growing taxonomic knowledge gap in herbarium collections, which is particularly accentuated in highly biodiverse regions. It uses Lithocarpus as a case study to develop automated plant identification from vegetative characters using reflectance spectra and …
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Microlepidoptera of Illinois hill prairies
… communication regarding them, and to augment our taxonomic knowledge of their respective genera, the moths are described, and diagnoses are provided to differentiate them from similar, related species.
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Representing and reasoning about concrete domains with inference fusion.
… a powerful means to represent and reason about taxonomic knowledge. They benefit from unambiguous semantics which make possible the automatic classification of concept definitions. However, the inevitable "trade-off" between the expressive power and the computational complexity prevents DLs from …
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Review of the South African and Mozambican stomatopod fauna
… have been described. However, the current taxonomic knowledge on the mantis shrimp fauna of southern Africa remains limited and outdated, with the last taxonomic revision of the group being that of K.H. Barnard in 1950, who recorded 17 species from South Africa and southern Mozambique. The …
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GREEN MINDS: KNOWLEDGE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR THE ADOPTION OF A PLANT-BASED DIET IN 3-6 Y.O. CHILDREN
This dissertation deals with how to design new knowledge-based educational programs that can help young (3- to 6-year-old) children in overcoming food neophobia, which is a disposition to reject unfamiliar food even before tasting it (Dovey et al. 2008) and constitutes a major hindrance to the …