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The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) provides continuous full-disk observations of solar oscillations. We develop a data-analysis [...]
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance [...]
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Transit oriented developments are high density mixed use developments located within short and easily walkable distance of a major transit centre. These developments are often [...]
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Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade, much of it due to improvements [...]
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Better access to improved infrastructure services is an important engine for economic growth. The poor state of infrastructure is a key bottleneck to growth in African countries, [...]
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This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. AICD [...]
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International audience Due to the varying and dynamic characteristics of network traffic, the analysis of traffic flows is of paramount importance for net- work security, [...]
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Eleven students enrolled in a 16-week radar simulation course were trained on current-day and NextGen tools. The order of the training was manipulated so that half of the [...]
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Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of Zambia's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past decade, mostly because [...]
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Recent developments of information technology and mobile lifestyle have forced drivers to multitask while they drive. The in-vehicle infotainment technology is already [...]
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This note, prepared as background for the G20 submission, explores the potential for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to increase the volume of climate financing by leveraging [...]
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Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the last decade. Raising the country's infrastructure [...]
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This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The [...]
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The paper aims to provide the basis for an estimation equation and will focus on the relation between transport emissions and air quality in an urban environment. This is [...]
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Urban sprawl combined with low density development causes unsustainable development patterns including accessibility and mobility problems, especially for those who do not [...]
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Despite general economic decline and power supply deficiencies, infrastructure made a modest net contribution of less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per [...]
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In this article, a conceptual model, called MRP IV, is proposed in order to serve as a reference to develop a new production technology that integrates material planning decisions, [...]
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Todays air traffic management system is not expected to scale to the projected increase in traffic over the next two decades. Enhancing collaboration between the controllers [...]
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In an age when escalating fuel prices, global warming and world resource depletion are of great concern, sustainable transport practices promise to define a new way of mobility [...]
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In this report, we study the problem of optimizing the throughput of applications for heterogeneous platforms subject to failures. The considered applications are composed [...]
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"In polyzentralen Stadtregionen erfährt das aktionsräumliche Handeln durch eine hohe Dichte von Aktivitätsorten bei ubiquitär guter Erreichbarkeit eine ausgeprägte Angebotsvielfalt. [...]
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Part 3: - WCNS 2011 Workshop; International audience; Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks (CIDN) are usually composed by a set of nodes working together to detect distributed [...]
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Part 6: Quality through Routing, Naming and Control; International audience; The evolution of various wireless technologies has greatly increased the interest in heterogeneous [...]
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Because of the key characteristics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), removal of pilot, UAVs will be highly suited for repetitive, dirty, and dangerous operations. A wide [...]
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In automotive electromagnetic (EM) compatibility (EMC), the cable bundle network study is of great importance. Indeed, a cable network links all the electronic equipment interfaces [...]
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The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has gathered and analyzed extensive data on infrastructure in more than 40 Sub-Saharan countries, including Angola. The [...]
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When a vehicle equipped with an artificial vision system enters or exits a tunnel, the camera may temporarly suffer from reduced visibility, or even get completely blind due [...]
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Between 2000 and 2005, infrastructure contributed less than 1 percentage point to the Central African Republic's annual per capita GDP growth, despite substantial spending [...]
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Traffic management problems provide a unique environment to study how multi-agent systems promote desired system level behavior. In particular, they represent a special class [...]
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Between 2000 and 2005 infrastructure made a contribution of 1 percentage point to Senegal's improved per capita growth performance, placing it in the middle of the distribution [...]
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In een eerste historische analyse van de ingreep-effectrelaties op de Zeeschelde (Van Braeckel et al., 2006) werden data verzameld, geëvalueerd naar kwaliteit en continuïteit [...]
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eer-reviewed\nThis chapter examines the importance of “where” mobile work/life practices\noccur. By discussing excerpts of data collected through in-depth interviews\nwith [...]
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In this paper we present stabilized finite element methods to discretize in space the monochromatic radiation transport equation. These methods are based on the decomposition [...]
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This paper presents the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) and its application to multi-fluid flows. Key features of the method are the use of a Lagrangian description [...]
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We present some developments in the formulation of the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) for analysis of complex coupled problems on fluid and solid mechanics in engineering [...]
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This paper presents numerical modelling of rock cutting processes. The model consists of a tool–rock system. The rock is modelled using the discrete element method, [...]
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A number of Game Strategies (GS) have been developed in past decades. They have been used in the fields of economics, engineering, computer science and biology due to their [...]
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The “ISI rankings of the spanish universities by scientific fields” report is described, and some of the results are presented. One of the essential characteristics [...]
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Description of a recent action in the Multimedia Documentation Service of the Department of Library and Information Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A proposal [...]
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The information age has deeply affected the way organizations are managing to cope with the abundance of information and their needs to connect and influence the networks [...]
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With the development of collaborative systems, the web users create and disseminate information across the blogs, wikis and social networks. In that dynamic process, transmitter [...]
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In this study we analyse 38 online newspapers in Colombia, with the goal of determining the level of development of cybermedia in this country, taking special account of the [...]
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This paper analyzes the relationship between motivation and time estimates spent on internet based tasks, and its eventual incidence in informational and dialogical activities. [...]
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We describe a case of implementation in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) for a change of mindset in third-year students taking the Informative Documentation class. Traditionally [...]
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We evaluated three free software applications for administrative archives management and their implementation in university archives. Software evaluated was: Archon, Archivists [...]
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The Department of Health of the Government of Andalusia provides professionals of the Andalusian Public Health Care System a collaborative working environment (Entorno [...]
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Practices for free digital content downloads in the publishing industry are referred to as a problem by cultural and business leaders worldwide. The creation of systems to [...]
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Based on the existence of a social reality constructed by the media, we want to know which concepts, reviews and trends are on the media about public records, since the contents [...]
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Key factors for the future of Archival science are identified and prioritized from the views of a small group of professionals and researchers, using the qualitative technique [...]
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Virtualization is a technology that permits the abstraction of the software from one computer and its easy deployment in another one, which may house additional virtualized [...]
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The electronic prescription and dispensation system is a breakthrough in the use of new technologies in the National Health System. It involves the improvement of processes [...]
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e-Catalunya is an information system promoted by the Government of Catalonia to support Virtual Communities of Practice through a set of web 2.0 tools. It facilitates collaboration, [...]
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Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya (Padicat) is the web archive created in 2005 by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (BC), with the aim of collecting, processing and providing permanent [...]