Article history: The Cape Verde Islands are l Received 29 May 2007 Received in revised form 2 May 2008

Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) has developed and run our own Clearinghouse[1] for various academic researchers to share spatial data since 1999. This paper presents activities of the academic Clearinghouse and the backgrounds of it.

The estimation model was constructed to estimate the evapotranspiration and canopy interception from the forest stand using the parameters showing the forest structure such as stem density, tree height and leaf area index. This model is expected to have the ability to estimate the effect of forest management such as stem thinning and leaf amount control. Comparing the calculated rate by this mo...

The current era is increasingly influenced by the prominence of smart data and the semantic web. This does not make recruitment processes easier, especially when seeking candidates and skills. Most systems matching job offers to profiles build on one or more language resources. Developing and maintaining specific resources in each field is difficult. From millions of user profiles gathered on m...

Microblogging websites, especially Twitter have become an important means of communication, in todays time. Often these services have been found to be faster than conventional news services. With millions of users, a need was felt to classify users based on ambient metadata associated with their user accounts. We particularly look at the effectiveness of the ‘profile description’ field in order...

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study was undertaken to establish the optimum dietary indispensable amino acid (IAA) profile for yellow fin seabream broodstock based on the amino acid (AA) profile of broodstock, eggs and larvae of Acanthopagrus latus. Three isonitrogenous (40%) and isolipid (20%), named diets 1, 2 and 3 were formulated with different ratios of total essential amino acids per total non-essential amino acid...