Traditional database systems have been successful in handling large amounts of data but lack mechanisms for schema derivations and schema veri cation In this paper we propose i structures that carry expressive and useful information on the database schema ii a set of inference rules for schema derivations and iii a mechanism for discovering contradictory schema declarations To this end in addit...

The purpose of an Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) is to audit, assess and review processes used in a project to show compliance to best and appropriate practice and to assess the adequacy of the evidence. The main objective of using an ISA in any project is to provide assurance that a contractor considers and addresses safety issues. An ISA needs to be convinced that the process captures, unde...

Lack of research into the complexity in urban land conversion, and paucity of observational data of soil organic carbon (SOC) beneath impervious surface area (ISA) limit our understanding of the urbanization effects on carbon (C) pools in dryland cities. Employing Landsat TM images acquired in 1990 and 2010, a hybrid classification method consisting of Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis and decis...

Conventional acoustic modeling involves estimating many parameters to effectively model feature distributions. The sparseness of speech and text data, however, degrades the reliability of the estimation process and makes speech recognition a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to use a nonlinear feature transformation based on the speech manifold called Intrinsic Spectral Analysis (ISA)...

Inappropriate speed is a major cause of traffic accidents. Different measures have been considered to control traffic speed, and intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) systems are one of the alternatives. These systems know the speed limits and try to improve compliance with them. This paper deals with an informative ISA system that provides the driver with an advance warning before reaching a road...

Providing light during incubation is being investigated as a method to improve welfare in later life poultry. This would more closely approximate chicken natural environment compared the current darkness. Previous studies showed promising results of on broiler welfare, but little known about effects laying hens. Especially, information its hatching characteristics (hatch time, hatchability, chi...

Intelligent speed adaption (ISA) is one type of vehicle-based intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which warns and regulates driving speed according to the speed limits of the roads. Early field studies showed that ISA could reduce general mean speed levels and their variances in different road environments. This paper studies the effects of various ISA penetration grades on pedestrian saf...

The UK External Vehicle Speed Control has made a prediction of the accident savings with ISA, and estimated the costs and benefits of national implementation. The best prediction of accident reduction was that the fitting on all vehicles of a simple mandatory ISA, with which it would be impossible for vehicles to exceed the speed limit, would save 20% of injury accidents and 37% of fatal accide...

Abstract As security breaches in organisations are on the rise, developing an understanding of factors enabling and preventing such is crucial. Even though previous studies have examined organisational aspects information security, not much focus has been placed human factors. In present work we tendency to morally disengage (MD), awareness (ISA), counterproductive behaviours (CWB), a sample 71...