Research Spotlight: Flood fatalities in Africa linked to settlement patterns

Population Distribution, Settlement Patterns and Accessibility across Africa in 2010

The spatial distribution of populations and settlements across a country and their interconnectivity and accessibility from urban areas are important for delivering healthcare, distributing resources and economic development. However, existing spatially explicit population data across Africa are generally based on outdated, low resolution input demographic data, and provide insufficient detail ...

Research Spotlight

Introduction Recent natural and man-made disastrous events underscore the importance of emergency evacuation planning and management for buildings and facilities (Averill et al., 2005). Although building codes include provisions for egress design, their prescriptive nature poses many limitations in terms of providing effective evacuation for specific buildings, each of which is unique. Human be...

Spotlight on Excellence in Research

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW Research priorities in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies

Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiology, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Referral Ce...

OBM2OWL Patterns: Spotlight on OWL Modeling Versatility

We present an experimental implementation of an ontological engineering support method that allows to see multiple OWL modeling options for a certain modeled situation. Initial style-independent background model (PURO OBM) is automatically transformed to alternative OWL fragments, which can then be visualized and chosen from.