BACKGROUND Rapid and accurate diagnosis drives evidence-based care in health. Point-of-care testing (POCT) aids diagnosis by bringing advanced technologies closer to patients. Health small-world networks are constrained by natural connectivity in the interactions between geography of resources and social forces. Using a geographic information system (GIS) we can understand how populations utili...

Although Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been recognised as the most advanced technology for the management of geospatial information, they are still unable to efficiently manage the temporal dimension. Originally this problem affected only the study and analysis of highly dynamic phenomena. Today’s expansion of GIS technology, the ease to acquire and store geospatial data and the inc...

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an important distributed information resource. GIS technology is being utilized in many areas of research. Based on the concept of agent, we introduce a multi-agent architecture to develop a GIS Multi-Agent System (GISMA) that enables cooperation to assist different users to locate and retrieve spatial GIS file information in large networks. GISMA consis...

Subjects taught in elementary, secondary and vocational schools are covered by two, more or less, separate programs dtin higher education. One of them aims to educate experts while the other one provides for regular teacher training. The natural “development” of a subject within higher education is that the “experts-only” program should be extended to teacher training when a new social need app...

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a Center for Remote Sensing, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA b State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Center for Remote Sensing and GIS of Geography College, Beijing Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing of Environment and Digital Cities, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China c Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State Un...

Geoinformation technologies are an important element of professional education for future geographers and widely used in their training program, at the same time geoinformation depend on participants` technical support educational process, both full-time distance learning. The article examines specifics application organization learning example certain disciplines curriculum geography specialis...

Field practice is an important part of training geography research talents. However, traditional teaching methods may not adequately manage, share and implement instruction resources and thus may limit the instructor’s ability to conduct field instruction. A possible answer is found in the rapid development of computer-assisted instruction (CAI), a new teaching mode for the Information Age. A “...