It is a useful premise to assume that every document in a collection and every query issued to an information retrieval (IR) system is geography-dependent. If one can determine what area an article is about (i.e., its’ geographical scope), this information can be used to improve the accuracy with which people, places and organizations named in the article can be located. More importantly, geogr...

The spatial resolution of publicly available numerical weather forecasts is largely limited by the computing resources of the originating weather services. Only selected parameters are available to the public from many weather services. We present a scalable system for distributed computation of high resolution symbiotic numerical weather forecasts. Each forecast is computed on the user’s deskt...

Background: Small-area mortality atlases have been demonstrated to be a useful tool for both showing general geographical patterns in mortality data and identifying specific high-risk locations. In Spain no study has so far systematically examined geographic patterns of small-area mortality for the main causes of death. This paper presents the main features, contents and potential uses of the S...

Hubei Province is the hub of communications in central China, which directly determines its strategic position in the country’s development. Additionally, Hubei Province is well-known for its diverse landforms, including mountains, hills, mounds and plains. This area is called “The Province of Thousand Lakes” due to the abundance of water resources. Geographical names are exclusive names given ...

Parasitic infection during pregnancy is a major cause of anaemia in Africa. Social and environmental risk factors for the transmission of human parasites vary according to geographical location. Knowledge of the geographical distribution of parasitic helminths and malaria parasites is key to any interventional programme. Thus, in August-November 2005, a hospital-based study was conducted on 300...

Geodemographic analysis has been described as “the analysis of spatially referenced geodemographic and lifestyle data” (See and Openshaw, 2001, p.269) It is widely used in the public and private sectors for the planning and provision of products and services. Geodemographic analysis often uses clustering techniques which are used to classify the geodemographic data into groups, making the data ...

The original design of the Internet and its underlying protocols did not anticipate users to be mobile. With the growing interest in supporting mobile users and mobile computing, a great deal of work is taking place to solve this problem. For a solution to be practical, it has to integrate easily with existing Internet infrastructure and protocols, and offer an adequate migration path toward wh...