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No Retreat, No Surrender

The inspiring story of a world-champion sportsman and cancer warrior

By: Oscar Chalupsky,Graham Spence

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No Retreat, No Surrender

The inspiring story of a world-champion sportsman and cancer warrior

By: Oscar Chalupsky,Graham Spence

Few athletes hold a record comparable to that of Oscar Chalupsky. He made history at the age of fifteen as the first person to win both the Junior and Senior Ironman titles on the same day at the South African National Lifesaving Championships, he was the country’s spokesman at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and he is a multiple-times global surfski champion, having won the internationally famous Molokai to Oahu World Surfski Marathon championships in Hawaii a record twelve times – his most recent victory being at the age of forty-nine. Then, in 2019, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer and told he had six months to live. But as with everything else Oscar does, he is determined to emerge victorious. He continues to paddle kayaks, play golf, and with a combination of medical treatment, exercise, iron determination and unconquerable optimism, he has defied every doctor’s prediction to date. How does he do it? In this book, Oscar relives some of his most exhilarating and nail-biting races, and shares the lessons he has learnt from winning on the international surf lifesaving, kayak and surfski circuits as well as running several successful businesses. The final chapters recount his courageous battle against cancer, the vital support of his family and friends, and his refusal to let the deadly disease dictate his life. No Retreat, No Surrender is an uplifting account of grit, perseverance, talent and attitude, vividly capturing the determined mindset of an inspirational sporting legend.

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356

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1776390210

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9781776390212

Ontological Engineering

with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition

By: Asunción Gómez-Pérez,Mariano Fernandez-Lopez,Oscar Corcho

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Ontological Engineering

with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition

By: Asunción Gómez-Pérez,Mariano Fernandez-Lopez,Oscar Corcho

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies and Ontological Engineering. Ontologies are now widely used in Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science; in applications related to knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent integration information, information retrieval, integration of databases, b- informatics, and education; and in new emerging fields like the Semantic Web. Primary goals of this book are to acquaint students, researchers and developers of information systems with the basic concepts and major issues of Ontological Engineering, as well as to make ontologies more understandable to those computer science engineers that integrate ontologies into their information systems. We have paid special attention to the influence that ontologies have on the Semantic Web. Pointers to the Semantic Web appear in all the chapters, but specially in the chapter on ontology languages and tools.

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412

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1852338407

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9781852338404

A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

By: Oscar Corcho

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A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

By: Oscar Corcho

The ontology translation problem (aka ontology interoperability problem) appears when we decide to reuse an ontology (or part of an ontology) with a tool or language that is different from those ones in which the ontology is available. If we force each ontology-based system developer, individually, to commit to the task of translating and incorporating to their systems the ontologies that they need, they will require a lot of effort and time to achieve their objective. This book presents two contributions to the current state of the art on ontology translation among languages and/or tools. The first contribution is a proposal for a new model for building and maintaining ontology translation systems. The second contribution characterises existing ontology translation approaches from the perspectives of semantic and pragmatic preservation, that is, consequence and intended meaning preservation respectively.

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IOS Press

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1586034774

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9781586034771

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No Retreat, No Surrender

No Retreat, No Surrender

Ontological Engineering

Ontological Engineering

A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

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