The structures of three xGeO(2)-(1- x)P(2)O(5) glasses, where x = 0.98,0.88, and 0.81, have been studied by neutron and x-ray diffraction experiments that yield well resolved P-O and Ge-O bond distances. The Ge-O coordination number (N(GeO)) increased from 4.0 ± 0.2 to 4.5 ± 0.2 with the decrease in x from 0.98 to 0.81. The increase in N(GeO) is consistent with a structural model that assumes t...

3D geo-database research is a promising field to support challenging applications such as 3D urban planning, environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, and early warning or disaster management and response. In these fields, interdisciplinary research in GIScience and related fields is needed to support the modelling, analysis, management, and integration of large geo-referenced data s...

Generally, data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery, knowledge extraction, knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing huge voluminous data from different perspectives and summarizing it into the useful information. Hence data quality is much important to get the high quality pattern as result. Quality decisions ought to be based on quality data. Data quality is affected b...

In many problems of machine learning and computer vision, there exists side information, i.e., information contained in the training data and not available in the testing phase. This motivates the recent development of a new learning approach known as learning with side information that aims to incorporate side information for improved learning algorithms. In this work, we describe a new traini...

Despite its remarkable geomorphological, ecological, and touristic value, the coastal sector of Apulia region (Southern Italy) hosts three main contaminated Italian sites (Sites National Interest, or SINs), for which urgent environmental remediation reclamation actions are required. These affected by intense modification diffuse pollution due to strong industrialisation urbanisation processes t...