Consistent Usage Research Articles

Legal regulation of subsoil use when placing and constructing facilities for development of subsoil sites

Energy Strategy of Russia for the period until 2035 contains a note that Russian Energy Industry is one of the main sources of environmental pollution. More than 50 per cent of polluted matter emissions into the atmosphere, more than 20 per cent of dirty discharge into surface water reservoirs and more than 70 per cent of total emissions of greenhouse gases account for this industry. Issues of environmental safety of the subsoil use are always under consideration in the academic community. However, huge amount of problems concerning this area still remain unresolved. For instance, bankrupt subsoil users often do not satisfy requirements set by the government on mothballing or removing facilities aimed at development or reclamation of used land parcels when the land leasehold is over. This indicates the need to enshrine additional measures in the Russian legislation on ensuring compliance with certain requirements. The authors mention that providing the regeneration of raw material base and its reasonable using for the benefit of current and next generations of nations inhabiting the Russian Federation are among the primary tasks of governmental regulation of relations on the subsoil use. The government should ensure the most efficient and consistent usage of resources obtained from already provided land parcels, complete development of mineral deposits and compliance with appropriate terms of subsoil use.

Aspects of the Indo-European Aorist and Imperfect

Abstract The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) tense-aspect system has been reconstructed since the time of Delbrück (1897) as containing a fundamental opposition between two aspect-denoting stems: An Aorist stem, denoting perfective aspect, and a Present stem, denoting imperfective aspect. This reconstruction is, for practical reasons, based almost entirely on Greek and Vedic. Re-examining the Homeric and R̥gvedic data, I argue on semantic grounds against this century-old understanding of the tense-aspect system of PIE. In its place, I reconstruct the “Aorist” indicative as denoting perfect aspect (not perfective), and the “Imperfect” indicative as a simple past tense (not imperfective). Evidence for this reconstruction is based on the consistent usage in the R̥gveda of the Aorist in the meaning ‘have done X’ (with present reference) and the Imperfect in the meaning ‘did X’ (especially in narrative contexts)—a distribution which frequently has a precise match in Homer.

Effectiveness of self-testing kits availability on improving HIV testing frequency for chinese men who have sex with men and their sexual partners: a protocol for a multicenter randomised controlled trial

IntroductionHIV epidemic is increasing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China, yet HIV testing uptake remains low. As an emerging approach, HIV self-testing (HIVST) has the potential...

Injury prevalence and safety habits of boda boda drivers in Moshi, Tanzania: A mixed methods study.

BackgroundTraffic crashes are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Motorcycle taxi (boda boda) drivers are particularly vulnerable because they are exposed to traffic risks with limited safety equipment. This study aims to characterize injury prevalence and safety habits among boda boda drivers, as well as ways to improve road traffic safety in LMICs.MethodsA cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted with 300 boda boda drivers between 24 March and 3 April 2014 in urban Moshi, Tanzania. A convenience sample of participants was drawn from 25 of 58 registered boda boda stands and 2 of 31 unregistered stands. Data were analyzed using R, and content thematic analysis was performed and agreed upon by three investigators. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association between boda boda characteristics and injury risk.ResultsIn total, 300 drivers participated, of whom 148 (49.3%) had experienced a crash during their lifetime, and 114 (77.0%) sustained at least one injury. Only 27 of those injured (23.4%) were hospitalized. Of all participants, 220 (73.3%) reported consistent helmet usage, despite 285 participants (95.0%) agreeing that helmet usage reduces injury severity. From the 280 helmets observed, 231 (82.5%) were either damaged or fit improperly. Having a cracked helmet was associated with higher risk of being involved in a traffic crash. Owning a helmet with a proper fit was associated with reduced risk for a traffic crash (OR = 0.06) and road traffic injuries (OR = 0.07). A thematic analysis of boda boda drivers’ suggestions to increase road safety identified four intervention areas: 1) roadway infrastructure and traffic regulation, 2) road user attitudes and safe driving behaviors, 3) education and training, and 4) law enforcement.ConclusionOur study demonstrates boda boda drivers’ safety behaviors and identifies four intervention areas that can be leveraged to increase overall road traffic safety. Unfortunately, while boda boda drivers are aware of ways to improve safety, adherence to safety habits remains low. Successful multi-sectoral interventions are needed to improve road safety for boda boda drivers in Tanzania.

Is self-report a valid measure of unimanual object-based task performance?

ABSTRACTHand preference is commonly measured via self-report using instruments known as handedness inventories. These instruments query which hand subjects use to perform unimanual object-based tasks and also the consistency of usage. Scores reveal which hand people report using most (i.e., which hand is preferred). Some people report highly consistent usage of their preferred hand while others report relatively inconsistent usage. These reports are often assumed to be accurate descriptions of people’s actual behavior, but empirical evidence concerning their validity is surprisingly scant. In the present research, subjects completed a handedness inventory on which higher scores indicated more consistent usage of the preferred hand. After a brief filled interval, subjects performed tasks listed on the inventory, spontaneously choosing which hand to use for each task. Subjects who scored higher on the inventory used the preferred hand more often. Subjects were then timed while performing the tasks as fast as they could with each hand. Subjects were faster when using their preferred hand and the magnitude of the preferred hand advantage was positively correlated with self-reported consistency. These results support the validity of inventory scores by showing that they are related to spontaneous hand choice and manual fluency when performing inventory tasks.

Global and local charge transfer in electron donor-acceptor complexes.

The formation of electron donor-acceptor complexes is studied with global and local charge transfer partitionings. The 1-parabola model is applied to the bromination reaction of alkenes and the correlations found between the global and local charge transferred with the transition energy of the charge transfer bands and the kinetic rate constants indicate that the nucleophilic attack of alkenes to bromine is the electronic process controlling the reactivity in the formation of the electron donor-acceptor complexes in this reaction. The 2-parabolas model is used in studying the nitrosation of aromatic compounds where colorful electron donor-acceptor complexes are formed. In this case, and like previous applications of the 2-parabolas model, the consistent usage of the model mandates the explicit consideration of reaction conditions in preparing the reactants to have a direction of electron transfer that is consistent with the chemical potential differences. For the nitrosation reaction this implies considering the nitrosonium cation as the charge acceptor. Both applications support that the charge transferred predicted from chemical reactivity models can be used as a scale to measure the nucleophilicity in reactivity trends. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.

Improving reusability of software libraries through usage pattern mining

Modern software systems are increasingly dependent on third-party libraries. It is widely recognized that using mature and well-tested third-party libraries can improve developers’ productivity, reduce time-to-market, and produce more reliable software. Today’s open-source repositories provide a wide range of libraries that can be freely downloaded and used. However, as software libraries are documented separately but intended to be used together, developers are unlikely to fully take advantage of these reuse opportunities. In this paper, we present a novel approach to automatically identify third-party library usage patterns, i.e., collections of libraries that are commonly used together by developers. Our approach employs a hierarchical clustering technique to group together software libraries based on external client usage. To evaluate our approach, we mined a large set of over 6000 popular libraries from Maven Central Repository and investigated their usage by over 38,000 client systems from the Github repository. Our experiments show that our technique is able to detect the majority (77%) of highly consistent and cohesive library usage patterns across a considerable number of client systems.

Does the use of honorific appellations in audit reports connote higher financial misstatement risk? Evidence from China

PurposeFrom the sociolinguistic perspective, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether the honorific and actual-name appellations that Chinese auditors use to address clients in audit reports connote differential financial misstatement risk. Specifically, the authors hypothesize that auditors’ use of honorifics signals their inferior social status relative to their clients, thereby leading to compromised auditor independence, lower audit quality, and higher financial misstatement risk.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a sample of manually coded appellation data from audit reports of Chinese public firms between 2003 and 2012 to conduct the research.FindingsThe authors find significantly greater financial misstatements, both in terms of likelihoods and magnitudes, for companies addressed by honorifics than for those addressed by actual names. Moreover, compared to auditors’ consistent honorific usage, discretionary honorific usage has a stronger positive association with misstatements. The authors further show that the positive association between honorific usage and client misstatement risk weakens when the audit firm is a Top 10 accounting firms in China, is an industry specialist, is formed as a partnership, or resides in a more concentrated audit market.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the sociolinguistics literature in accounting and provides evidence supporting the reform proposed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board to enhance the usefulness of audit reporting.

Unsettling “Inner City”: Liberal Protestantism and the Postwar Origins of a Keyword in Urban Studies

AbstractThe term inner city first achieved consistent usage through the writings of liberal Protestants in the USA after World War II. Its genesis was the product of an era when a largely suburban mainline Protestantism was negotiating its relationship to American cities. Liberal Protestants’ missionary brand of urban renewal refocused attention away from the blight and structural obsolescence thought to be responsible for urban decay, and instead brought into focus the cultural pathologies they mapped onto black neighbourhoods. The term inner city arose in this context, providing a rhetorical and ideological tool for articulating the role of the church in the nationwide project of urban renewal. I argue that even as it arose in contexts aiming to entice mainline Protestantism back into the cities it had fled, the term accrued its meaning by generating symbolic and geographic distance between white liberal churches and the black communities they sought to help.

Implementation of a Nurse Driven Pathway to Reduce Incidence of Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting

PurposeA large, freestanding pediatric hospital in the southern United States saw a 117% increase in reported hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) between 2013 and 2015, with the intensive care units being the units of highest occurrence.Design and MethodsA quality improvement project was designed and implemented to assist with pressure injury prevention. Literature review confirmed that pediatric HAPIs are a challenge and that usage of bundles and user-friendly guidelines/pathways can help eliminate barriers to prevention. The aim of this quality improvement project had two aims. First, to reduce HAPI incidence in the PICU by 10%. Second, to increase consistent usage of pressure injury prevention strategies as evidenced by a 10% increase in pressure injury bundle compliance. The third aim was to identify if there are differences in percentage of interventions implemented between two different groups of patients. Donabedian's model of Structure, Process, and Outcomes guided the development and implementation of this quality improvement project. Interventions focused on risk assessment subscale scores have the opportunity to mitigate specific risk factors and improve pressure injury prevention. ResultsThrough implementation of the nurse driven pathway there was as 57% decrease in reported HAPIs in the PICU as well as a 66% increase in pressure ulcer prevention bundle compliance. ConclusionsImplementation of the nurse driven pressure injury prevention pathway was successful. There was a significant increase in bundle compliance for pressure ulcer prevention and a decrease in reported HAPIs. Practice ImplicationsThe pathway developed and implemented for this quality improvement project could be adapted to other populations and care settings to provide guidance across the continuum.

Predictors of HIV/AIDS preventive behavior among college students in Gambella town, Southwest Ethiopia using health belief model

Safer sex behaviors (sexual abstinence, correct and consistent condom usage) are important for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS among college students. The purpose of this article was to review studies addressing determinants of safer sex behaviors among college students. In Ethiopia little or no data existed on the preventive behaviors of HIV/AIDS among college students. Therefore, this study aimed to assess HIV/AIDS preventive behavior and associated factors among college students in Gambella town. An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from 2nd to 4th March, 2015 using self-administered questioners. Pretest was conducted before the actual data collection and reliability test was performed. EPI DATA version 3.1 and SPSS version 21 software were used for data entry and analysis, respectively. Descriptive statistics were computed and a multivariate logistic regression model was fitted. P-value less than 0.05 were used to declare statistical significance. 670 college students participated in this study. The study identified that, 72.1% of the students had HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors. Among sexually active students, 83(30.6%) were using condom consistently in the last 12 month and 59.7% of the college students had no sexual intercourse. Being engaged in HIV/AIDS, preventive behavior was determined by age ≤19 years (AOR=1.89, 95% CI: 1.29, 2.77), good HIV related knowledge (AOR=2.48, 95% CI: 1.46, 4.09) and drinking alcohol (AOR=0.51, 95% CI: 0.35, 0.73). High perceived severity toward HIV/AIDS and high perceived benefit of engaging in HIV/AIDS preventive behavior (using of condom) also predicted HIV/AIDS preventive behavior (AOR=1.65, 95% CI: 1.12, 2.59) and (AOR=2.35, 95% CI: 1.36, 2.93), respectively. HIV/AIDS preventive behavior of college students in Gambella was high. However, inconsistent condom use among sexually active students was highly practiced. Age, knowledge of HIV/AIDS preventive behavior, alcohol use, perceived severity and benefit had a significant effect on HIV/AIDS preventive behavior of the college students. Key words: HIV/AIDS, college students, health belief model.

Does the Use of Honorific Appellations in Audit Reports Connote Higher Financial Misstatement Risk? Evidence from China

From the sociolinguistic perspective, this study examines whether the honorific and actual-name appellations that Chinese auditors use to address clients in audit reports connote differential financial misstatement risk. Specifically, we hypothesize that auditors’ use of honorifics signals their inferior social status relative to their clients, thereby leading to compromised auditor independence, lower audit quality, and higher financial misstatement risk. We find significantly greater financial misstatements, both in terms of likelihoods and magnitudes, for companies addressed by honorifics than for those addressed by actual names. Moreover, compared to auditors’ consistent honorific usage, discretionary honorific usage has a stronger positive association with misstatements. We further show that the positive association between honorific usage and client misstatement risk weakens when the audit firm is a Top 10 accounting firm in China, is an industry specialist, is formed as a partnership, or resides in a more concentrated audit market. This study contributes to the sociolinguistics literature in accounting and provides evidence supporting the reform proposed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) to enhance the usefulness of audit reporting.

A data-driven learning experiment in the legal English classroom using the FLAX platform

This research presents a data-driven experiment in the legal English field where the FLAX, an open-source self-learning online platform, is assessed as regards its efficacy in aiding a group of legal English non-native undergraduates (divided into an experimental and a control group) to use legal terminology more consistently, amongst other language items. The experimental group were instructed to only resort to the FLAX and to exploit all the functionalities offered by it. Conversely, the control group could access any information source at hand except for the learning platform for the completion of the same task. Two learner corpora were gathered and analysed on a lexical and pragmatic level for the evaluation of term usage and distribution, lexical diversity, lexical fundamentality and the use of discourse markers. The results display a tendency on the part of the experimental group towards a more consistent usage of legal terminology, which also appears to be better distributed than the terms in the non-FLAX corpus. In contrast and on average, the lexicon in the FLAX-based corpus tends to be slightly more basic. Concerning the use of MD markers, the experimental group appears to use, though marginally, a greater number of evidentials, endophoric and interactional markers.

Effects of a behavior change campaign on household drinking water disinfection in the Lake Chad basin using the RANAS approach

Worldwide, an estimated 700 million people rely on unimproved drinking water sources; even more consume water that is not safe to drink. Inadequate drinking water quality constitutes a major risk factor for cholera and other diarrheal diseases around the globe, especially for young children in developing countries. Household water treatment and safe storage systems represent an intermediate solution for settings that lack infrastructure supplying safe drinking water. However, the correct and consistent usage of such treatment technologies rely almost exclusively on the consumer's behavior.This study targeted at evaluating effects of a behavior change campaign promoting the uptake of household drinking water chlorination in communities along the Chari and Logone rivers in Chad. The campaign was based on formative research using health psychological theory and targeted several behavioral factors identified as relevant. A total of 220 primary caregivers were interviewed concerning their household water treatment practices and mindset related to water treatment six months after the campaign. The Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation (RANAS) model was used to structure the interviews as the RANAS approach had been used for designing the campaign.Results show significantly higher self-reported drinking water chlorination among participants of the intervention. Significant differences from a control group were identified regarding several behavioral factors. Mediation analysis revealed that the intervention positively affected participants' individual risk estimation for diarrheal disease, health knowledge, perceived efforts and benefits of water treatment, social support strategies, knowledge of how to perform chlorination, and perceived ability to do so. The campaign's effect on water treatment was mainly mediated through differences in health knowledge, changes in norms, and self-efficacy convictions.The findings imply that water treatment behavior can be successfully promoted using health psychological theory. However, they also indicate opportunities for improvement in the campaign design and implementation.

100 Years of Solitude: A Century of Newspapers in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library

ABSTRACTIn 1898, the Trinity College Historical Society began collecting the first newspapers that would become the foundation of the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library's historical print newspaper collection. In recent decades, these newspapers lay underdescribed and largely inaccessible in a Rubenstein alcove. Impending renovation forced action, and in 2012 a three-year, multidepartment project to describe and house the collection was launched. In January 2016, the project successfully concluded, providing for the first time intellectual and physical control of the collection. Four years' worth of circulation data show steady and consistent usage on par with the greater Rubenstein collection.

Community-Level HIV Stigma as a Driver for HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Sierra Leone: A Population-Based Study.

Although HIV stigma has been identified as an important risk factor for HIV transmission risk behaviors, little is known about the contribution of community-level HIV stigma to HIV transmission risk behaviors and self-reported sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or how gender may modify associations. We pooled data from the 2008 and 2013 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Surveys. For HIV stigma, we examined HIV stigmatizing attitudes and HIV disclosure concerns at both individual and community levels. Outcomes of HIV transmission risk behaviors were recent condom usage, consistent condom usage, and self-reported STDs. We assessed associations with multivariable logistic regressions. We also analyzed gender as an effect modifier of these associations. Of 34,574 respondents, 24,030 (69.5%) who had heard of HIV were included in this analysis. Community-level HIV stigmatizing attitudes and disclosure concerns were associated with higher odds of self-reported STDs (adjusted odds ratio = 2.07; 95% confidence interval: 1.55 to 2.77; adjusted odds ratio = 2.95; 95% confidence interval: 1.51 to 5.58). Compared with men, community-level HIV stigmatizing attitudes among women were a stronger driver of self-reported STDs (interaction P = 0.07). Gender modified the association between community-level HIV disclosure concerns and both recent and consistent condom usage (interaction P = 0.03 and P = 0.002, respectively). Community-level HIV disclosure concerns among women were observed to be a driver of risky sex and self-reported STDs. This study shows that community-level HIV stigma may be a driver for risky sex and self-reported STDs, particularly among women. Our findings suggest that community-held stigmatizing beliefs and HIV disclosure concerns among women might be important targets for HIV stigma reduction interventions.

Development of Sports Nutrition Educational Tools (NutriSportExTM): A Web-Application for Malaysian National Athletes.

The use of electronics or technology, to improve the subjects’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) in nutrition or their compliance in recording their diet, for general primary care is not uncommon. However, there are more to be explored to improve sports nutrition KAP. The objective of this study was to develop a web app tool for athletes to increases their KAP in sports nutrition and to test on their acceptance towards the web app tool. This study was divided into 3 phases. Phase I involves the development of the web app. In Phase II, a focus group of 20 people was recruited to test the web app tool. Phase III was to evaluate the effectiveness of the web app in increasing athletes’ sports nutrition KAP and their acceptance of the web app. 30 athletes were recruited to use this web app for a week, a PRE- and POST-intervention KAP questionnaire were given. There was a strong correlation between athletes’ attitude towards this tool and intention to use in the future (r = 0.675). The more this web app tool was perceived as useful, the more likely they will visit the web app (r=0.589). Although the web app was well-accepted among the athletes, their KAP score was significantly reduced after the intervention (p= 0.011). The reduction of scores was due to the lack of consistent usage on the web app. In conclusion, it requires more facilitating support from the coach, longer training time, reminders and entertainment features for consistent usage, to improve the athletes’ KAP in sports nutrition via the web app.

Usage of strategic concepts of management accounting for satisfaction of information needs of innovation management

The research includes the analysis of main trends of development of innovative activity in Ukraine during last years. It has been determined, that the number of innovative-active enterprises of Ukraine increase, and this trend continues. Statistic indicators of innovative activity of industrial enterprises for 2014–2015 years have been investigated. It has been determined, that in modern economic conditions the world market of technologies stays as the engine of economic growth. In this regard, special place belongs to the formation of the effective information system for the needs of innovation management through the application of strategic management accounting concepts.For this purpose, the author investigated characteristics of integrated systems of management efficiency by strategic indicators, based on the joint, consistent and coherent usage of material (financial, monetary) and intangible (non-financial, non-monetary) factors of creation of business value, established in the early 90s of the twentieth century as the accounting concepts of balanced cards (accounts) or strategic cards. The peculiarities of the following concepts have been described: Management by Objectives by P.F. Drucker; Тableau de Bord by Zh.L. Malo; Balanced Scorecard by D.Norton and R.Kaplan; Value-Oriented Controlling by D.Khan and Kh.Khunhenberh; Performance Dashboards by Uein U.Ekkerson; Total Performance Scorecard by Rampersad K.Khiubert; Key Performance Indicators by D.Parmenter; Prism of Efficiency or Model Stakeholder by Endy Nili and Kris Adams; Balanced Scorecard by L.Meisel; Pyramid of Activity by Mak-Nair; Model of Effective Progress and Performance Measurement by К.Adame and P.Robert.It has been stated that among investigated models the best ones for displaying features innovation, which is the real embodiment of the innovation process as a long chain of value (cost) on the basis of the new (improved) product are the following: Balanced Scorecard, Total Performance Scorecard and Key Performance Indicators.The author showed the main scientific aspects of concept of Balanced Scorecard as the basic structure for formation of management accounting model of innovative activity on the basis of strategic indicators of efficiency. This system is integrated, as it considers also material (financial, monetary) factors of value creation, namely, indicators of achievement of strategic results or delayed (late) indicators, and intangible (non-financial, non-monetary) factors of value creation, namely, indicators of achievement factors of strategic results of accelerated (early) indicators, that are grouped into interrelated components (perspective): finance, customers, internal business processes, personnel learning and development.It has been proved that identification of strategic indicators of efficiency (performance) of innovative activity and creation of their integrated system must be done according to the process-module approach. This approach includes the grouping homogeneous strategic indicators in the modules (blocks) by stages of innovative process: emergence of the idea of a new product, development of production technology of the new product, prototyping the new product; production of the new product, promotion of the new product on the market, strengthening the market position of the new product. This will provide the functional usage of every module (block) of strategic indicators both by individual stage of innovation process, and in general, depending on the type of implemented innovative project. In conditions of intellectualization of social production, this will satisfy the increasing information needs of management of open innovation system of the enterprise that is considered from the standpoint of competitive advantages, receptiveness of the society to social innovations, strategy of innovative personal development and development of human potential.

Impact of Liquid-Phase Volume Changes on Estimating Reaction Rate Parameters: The Homogeneously Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Methyl Formate

The homogeneously catalyzed hydrolysis of methyl formate was studied experimentally in a batch reactor. The kinetics of this reversible liquid-phase reaction was quantified by analyzing measured concentration transients in two different ways: (i) neglecting temporal changes of the volume of the reaction mixture, and (ii) considering volume changes caused by the reaction and/or by mixing. Assuming the same structure of the kinetic expression, the reaction rate constants were estimated for both cases. Consistent usage of the obtained constants within the corresponding models provided relative small differences in the predicted concentration transients. Even the most simplified approach, i.e., neglecting volume changes completely, was found to be capable of describing well concentration transients observed in a batch reactor. However, for the specific reaction investigated, the absolute values of the reaction rate constant varied up to 9.4% for the different volume effect scenarios considered.

Semantic interoperability with heterogeneous information systems on the internet through automatic tabular document exchange

Internet is a common information space populated with many entities (e.g., Internet of Things) with different information system types. Each of them has its own context of how to build and process documents (e.g., form documents). This leads to heterogeneous documents in terms of syntax and semantics, which are difficult to make information fusion from one context to another. To resolve this problem, this paper uses semantic interoperability technique which consists of two automatic stages including consistent data understanding and reasonable data usage. To implement semantic interoperability, this paper proposes a novel automatic tabular document exchange (DocEx) framework comprised of a new tabular document model (TabDoc) and a semantic inference scheme to fit the two stages above respectively. In this TabDoc model, a new Tabular Document Language (DocLang) as a communication medium between users and devices is provided, which is not only an information representation language but also a rule language for semantic inference as well. Abstract sub-tree-based semantic relations constructing the logical structure of a tabular document are separated from their presentational structures, clarifying the relationship between semantic groups (e.g., a cell or a block) with the help of a common dictionary CONEX. Besides, this paper proposes a semantic inference algorithm (SIA) executing the inference procedure on received tabular documents created by a Table Designer system which integrates with SIA. Finally, the proposed framework is applied to the processing of flight ticket booking in a realistic e-business scenario. The results show that the proposed method in this paper improves the performance of information fusion among different information systems on the Internet.