This article describes a standardised way to build context-aware global smart space applications using information that is distributed across independent (legacy, sensor-enabled, and embedded) systems by exploiting the overlapping spatial and temporal attributes of the information maintained by these systems. The framework supports a spatial programming model based on a topographical approach t...

risalat risalat al-ghofran is the letter that abu ala marri (363-449 ah) writes in response to a letter from ali ben mansour halabi. inspired by the story of his ascension and the quran makes for a very long introduction to this thesis imaginary journey to heaven and hell are brought into the picture and verses and poems, and news and conflict in many lexical and syntactic text instead gives it...

This study aimed to describe active travel (walking or cycling) in Scotland and explore potential demographic, geographic, and socio-economic inequalities in active travel. We extracted data for the period 2012-13 (39,585 journey stages) from the Scottish Household Survey. Survey travel diaries recorded all journeys made on the previous day by sampled individuals aged 16 + living within Scotlan...

Nasir Khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. The quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between Nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. The tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. The researchers have analyzed the ...

This paper investigates the dynamic journey time estimation (DJTE) problem, which can be used to estimate simultaneously the mean and standard deviation (SD) of path journey times in stochastic road networks. In this paper, a bi-level programming model is proposed to solve the DJTE problem. The upper level is to minimize the deviations of the mean and SD between the estimated and observed path ...

The refugee journey is the defining feature of the exilic process: it is a profoundly formative and transformative experience and a ‘lens’ on the newcomers’ social condition. Yet it remains a significantly under-researched theme in refugee and forced migration studies. This exploratory article maps what exists, what is missing, and what might be researched regarding these journeys. Commencing w...