The following are the DeCS categories and their total number of descriptors: Health Surveillance (828); Homeopathy (1,945), Public Health (3,492); and Science and Health (219). The sum is greater than the total number of descriptors, since a descriptor may occur more than once in the hierarchy.
DeCS is a dynamic vocabulary totalling 26.851 descriptors, of which 3.656 are from Public Health and 1.950 from Homeopathy. By being dynamic, it records a permanent process of change including the development of new areas of terminology.
Remote Access DECS offers various methods to remotely access College of Engineering resources from anywhere with an Internet connection.
DeCS is a yearly updated dynamic vocabulary totaling 77 qualifiers and 35,033 descriptors, from which 31,110 come from MeSH, and 3,923 are exclusively DeCS’.
The DECS Compute Servers are high performance servers that are specifically designed to handle resource intensive and/or long running computational jobs. They provide access to most of the popular engineering computational software in either a terminal or desktop environment.
DeCS is the main controlled vocabulary for indexing and retrieving scientific and technical health literature published in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
The Differentiated Essential Competencies (DECs) is the fourth generation of the Texas Board of Nursing (BON or Board) competencies with differentiation based upon the education outcomes of the three levels of prelicensure nursing education programs.
The annual editions of DeCS are published in accordance with MeSH updates, involving the inclusion of new terms, as well as the removal and repositioning of others.
The concepts that compose the DeCS vocabulary are organized in a hierarchical structure permitting searches in broader or more specific terms or all the terms that belong to a single hierarchy.