The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for studying the use of geo-information and associated technology in government. We first review how geo-information, geo-information technology and people—notions central to geo-information use—are conceptualized in the literature and show that authors view these notions through two contrasting lenses, a market and a polis lens. We the...

The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for studying the use of geo-information and associated technology in government. We first review how geo-information, geo-information technology and people—notions central to geo-information use—are conceptualized in the literature and show that authors view these notions through two contrasting lenses, a market and a polis lens. We the...

A geometric graph G is a simple graph G together with a straight line drawing of G in the plane with the vertices in general position. Two geometric realizations of a simple graph are geo-isomorphic if there is a vertex bijection between them that preserves vertex adjacencies and non-adjacencies, as well as edge crossings and non-crossings. A natural extension of graph homomorphisms, geo-homomo...

Measurements of bark thickness generally ignore the fact that bark is comprised of both living inner bark (phloem) and essentially dead outer bark (rhytidome). Discerning between them has ramifications for the utility of bark as a byproduct of timber harvesting and its functionality on a living tree. Inner bark and outer bark thicknesses for longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) were investigat...

Geo-social networks offer opportunities for the marketing and promotion of geo-located services. In this setting, we explore a new problem, called Maximizing Influence Bichromatic Reverse k Nearest Neighbors (MaxInfBRkNN). The objective is to find set points interest (POIs), which are geo-textually socially relevant social influencers who expected largely promote POIs online. other words, probl...

China’s navigation satellite system BeiDou is developed according to a three step strategy [1]. The first step construction begun in 1994 and ended in 2000, as the BeiDou Navigation Demonstration System, as known as BeiDou I, provided radio determination satellite service (RDSS). The second step covers from 2004 to 2012, and is to construct the BeiDou navigation satellite System (BDS, also call...

Likewise other Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), EGNOS– the European SBAS – will broadcast augmentation signals for GPS through Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites. GEO broadcasting is proved to be an efficient strategy for avionic applications and other modes of transport. For some applications, though, it may be of interest to complement GEO broadcasting through other transm...

UNLABELLED The NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) represents the largest public repository of microarray data. However, finding data in GEO can be challenging. We have developed GEOmetadb in an attempt to make querying the GEO metadata both easier and more powerful. All GEO metadata records as well as the relationships between them are parsed and stored in a local MySQL database. A powerful, fl...

A decade ago, the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database was established at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The original objective of GEO was to serve as a public repository for high-throughput gene expression data generated mostly by microarray technology. However, the research community quickly applied microarrays to non-gene-expression studies, including examination...