This paper focuses on the educational experience of teaching the topic of Urban Computing in a postgraduate design studio context. It also discusses some of the most interesting projects that students designed and prototyped while using design-oriented technology, ranging from wireless micro-electronics to data stream caching, and working in a real-life physical context of an existing urban env...

Understanding temporal urban growth is very crucial to the interpretation of urban morphology and a key challenge for the study of rapid urbanization in contemporary China. Previous land use change modelling approaches only consider the spatial complexity that may be indicated by spatial dependence and landscape fragmentation, ignoring the temporal complexity inherent in the process of urban gr...

BACKGROUND The aims of the study were to assess the impact of both positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) on self-reported oral health-related quality of life and to determine the effect of including affectivity on the relationship between oral health-related quality of life and a set of explanatory variables consisting of oral health status, socio-economic status and dental visiting pattern. ...

There has been little research on natural-language processing of Buryat, in part due to the absence of language resources. In this article we present the first syntactic treebank for Buryat. It is an evolving project based on the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation guidelines. We report on the procedure of constructing the treebank and explain some features of the labelling scheme with respe...

Ecologically Sustainable Development in Australia can be described as going beyond the protection of the environment from the impacts of pollution, to protecting and conserving natural resources. In an urban environmental context this means urban development (both greenfield development and urban renewal) that seeks to have no long term effects on various aspects of the environment related to a...

Ubiquitous computing only allows services of fixed or local area and it just provides services without status information of the device upon user request. Thus, it is difficult to react immediately with users changes. Since urban computing is on higher system instead of ubiquitous, it can usually provide users the organic behavior with reference from devices physical states information. Also, i...

The goal of this paper is to survey annotation of ellipsis in Universal Dependencies (UD) 2.0 treebanks. In the long term, knowing the types and frequencies of elliptical constructions is important for parsing experiments focused on ellipsis, which was also our original motivation. However, the current state of annotation is still far from perfect, and thus the main outcome of the present study...

The objective of this work is to perform a spell check tool that analyzes the text entered in search for possible misspellings. This tool will suggest possible corrections for each misspelled word in the text. This work will require the presence of a reference dictionary of words in the arabic language. These objective Were Accomplished with resources, effective methods, and approaches. First e...

In this paper we promote open pervasive computing infrastructure in the public space as a prerequisite for conducting urban computing research with visible and lasting impact on the community. As a concrete example we present the UBI Open Urban Service Network currently being deployed in the City of Oulu, Finland.

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