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Item Neurological Disorders and Publication Abstracts Follow Elements of Social Network Patterns when Indexed Using Ontology Tree-Based Key Term Search(Springer, 2014) Kulanthaivel, Anand; Light, Robert P.; Börner, Katy; Kong, Chin Hua; Jones, Josette F.; BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and ComputingDisorders of the Central Nervous System (CNS) are worldwide causes of morbidity and mortality. In order to further investigate the nature of the CNS research, we generate from an initial reference a controlled vocabulary of CNS disorder-related terms and ontological tree structure for this vocabulary, and then apply the vocabulary in an analysis of the past ten years of abstracts (N = 10,488) from a major neuroscience journal. Using literal search methodology with our terminology tree, we find over 5,200 relationships between abstracts and clinical diagnostic topics. After generating a network graph of these document-topic relationships, we find that this network graph contains characteristics of document-author and other human social networks, including evidence of scale-free and power law-like node distributions. However, we also found qualitative evidence for Z-normal-type (albeit logarithmically skewed) distributions within disorder popularity. Lastly, we discuss potential consumer-centered as well as clinic-centered uses for our ontology and search methodology.Item An Ontology For Formal Representation Of Medication Adherence-Related Knowledge: Case Study In Breast Cancer(2018-08) Sawesi, Suhila; Jones, Josette F.; Duncan, William D.; BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and ComputingItem The true war story: ontological reconfiguration in the war fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien(2017) Aukerman, Jason Michael; Marvin, Tom; Eller, Jonathan; Rebein, RobertThis thesis applies the ontological turn to the war fiction of veteran authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien. It argues that some veteran authors desire to communicate truth through fiction. Choosing to communicate truth through fiction hints at a new perspective on reality and existence that may not be readily accepted or understood by those who lack combat experience. The non-veteran understanding of war can be more informed by entertaining the idea that a multiplicity of realities exists. Affirming the combat veteran reality—the post-war ontology—and acknowledging the non-veteran reality—rooted in what I label “pre-war” or “civilian” ontology—helps enhance the reader’s understanding of what veteran authors attempt to communicate through fiction. This approach reframes the dialogic interaction between the reader and the perspectives presented in veteran author’s fiction through an emphasis on “radical alterity” to the point that telling and reading such stories represent distinct ontological journeys. Both Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien provide intriguing perspectives on reality through their fiction, particularly in the way their characters perceive and express morality, guilt, time, mortality, and even existence. Vonnegut and O’Brien’s war experiences inform these perspectives. This does not imply that the authors hold an identical perspective on the world or that combat experience yields an ontological understanding of the world common to every veteran. It simply asserts that applying the ontological turn to these writings, and the writings of other combat veterans, reveals that those who experience combat first-hand often walk away from those experiences with a changed ontological perspective.Item Using the oral health and disease ontology to study dental outcomes in national dental PBRN practices(CEUR, 2018-08) Duncan, W. D.; Hyvalikakath, T. P.; Siddiqui, Z.; LaPradd, M.; Wen, C.; Zheng, J.; Roberts, A.; Hood, D.; Schleyer, Titus; Manimangalam, A.; Rindal, D. B.; Jurkovich, M. W.; Shea, T. L.; Bogacz, D.; Yu, T.; Fellows, J. L.; Gordan, V. V.; Gilbert, G. H.; Cariology, Operative Dentistry and Dental Public Health, School of DentistryThe use of electronic dental records (EDR) has grown rapidly over the past decade, but the development of methods to use EDR data for research and quality improvement is still in its infancy. In this study, we are investigating the feasibility of reusing semantically structured EDR data for research purposes. Our two use cases are to assess (1) longevity of posterior composite restorations (PCR) and (2) tooth loss following root canal treatment (RCT).