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The ITEM Ontology: A Tool to Elucidate the Anatomy of Psychometric Indicators. 项目本体：一种阐明心理测量指标剖析的工具。

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Information systems research : ISR Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1287/isre.2023.0257

Kai R Larsen, Roland M Mueller, Dario Bonaretti, Diana Fischer-Preßler, James Jim Burleson, Nimisha Singh, Jeffrey Parsons, Jean-Charles Pillet, Lan Sang, Zhu Drew Zhang

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Anonymizing and Sharing Medical Text Records. 匿名化和共享医疗文本记录。

Information systems research : ISR Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Epub Date: 2017-04-12 DOI: 10.1287/isre.2016.0676

Xiao-Bai Li, Jialun Qin

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