Several modular processes are used to b u i l d r e l a t i o n s h i p s between a) two-dimensional regions and boundaries in a segmented image, and b) the hypothesized sur faces, volumes and ob jec ts of a three-dimensional wo r ld . A v a r i e t y of bottom-up and top-down s t ra teg ies coordinate the processes of SHAPE, PERSPECTIVE, SHADOW, and OCCLUSION to const ruct these r e l a t i on...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify hospital resources by region, determine human resources by type of service and region, and describe how services generally operate in child psychiatry within the province of Quebec. METHODS Data collection took place from May to October 2001. We sent a semistructured questionnaire to all child psychiatry service heads. We collected human resource data a...

The development of location-based services has spread over many aspects of modern social life. This development brings not only conveniences to users’ daily life but also great concerns about users’ location privacy. In such services, location privacy aware query processing that handles cloaked regions is becoming an essential part in preserving user privacy. However, the state-of-the-art cloak...

abstractâ generally the level of development in different economic sections of a country is not the same as is in its regions, but heterogeneity and incongruity are seen in educational, health services, social services and welfare, agriculture and industry sections of a country. one of the issues and problems which regional planners are facing is the unequal growth and development of the areas,...

In the European Union, Member States and their regions are responsible for planning, funding and administration of public services, which should be based also on smart city tools. How smart is a city could be evaluated also by its ability to produce favorable conditions to get urban operators actively involved into spatial innovation dynamics, also to develop the innovative public logistics net...

Web Services is an increasingly used instantiation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) that relies on standard Internet protocols to produce services that are highly interoperable. Other types of services, relying on legacy application layer protocols, however, cannot be composed directly. A promising solution is to implement wrappers to translate between the application layer protocols and...

There have been obstacles for internal migrants in China in accessing local public health services for some time. This study aimed to estimate the utilization of local public health services and its determinants among internal migrants. Data were from the 2014 and 2015 nationally representative cross-sectional survey of internal migrants in China. Multivariate logistic regressions were used to ...