T he vesicle trafficking system has long been known to influence signal transduction through its role in biogenesis and degradation of membrane receptors (1). There are also well known examples of vesicleassociated regulatory proteins, such as Ire1 and SREBP, that control responses closely tied to vesicle properties or function (2, 3). But a new paradigm is emerging, as illustrated by a study i...

Cities have an ever increasing wealth of sensing capabilities, recently including also Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, to fully exploit such sensing capabilities with the aim of offering effective citysensing-driven applications still presents certain obstacles. Indeed, at present, the main limitation in this respect consists of the vast majority of data sources being served on a “be...

In this study, visual representations are created in order to analyze different aspects of scientific collaboration at the international level. The main objective is to identify the international facet of research by following the flow of knowledge as expressed by the number of scientific publications, and then establishes the main geographical axes of output, showing the interrelationships of ...

Conception of a geographical database like those produced by IGN relies on conceptual models which are completed by textual specifications. These specifications contain much information related to the domain's semantics, and to the experts' knowledge about data acquisition. So we wish to extend the conceptual models with these specifications. To this end, we use the specifications to build an o...

Automatic detection of geographical objects such as roads, buildings and bridges from remote sensing imagery is a very meaningful but difficult work. Bridges over water is a typical geographical object and its automatic detection is of great significance for many applications. Finding Region Of Interest (ROI) having water areas alone is the most crucial task in bridge detection. This can be don...

The exploration industry of Ukraine is experiencing a protracted crisis. It confirmed by the curtailment funding for development country mineral resources 60% last year which causes closure companies. range problems traditionally solved geography significantly reduced. These reasons encouraged us to consider main methodological approaches study potential specific regions. studied such as natura...