Research Spotlight: Modeling ionospheric variations

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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...

Ionospheric total electron content variations observed before earthquakes: Possible physical mechanism and modeling

The GPS derived TEC disturbances before earthquakes were discovered in the last years using global and regional TEC maps, TEC measurements over individual stations as well as measurements along individual GPS satellite passes. For strong mid-latitudinal earthquakes the seismo-ionospheric anomalies look like local TEC enhancements or decreases located in the vicinity of the forthcoming earthquak...

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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.

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...