The first aim of the paper is the characterization of fault-originated transients in power distribution networks as a function of the fault location and of the measurement point. Both fault location and of the measurement point are indeed correlated to the position of the faulted branch and of the fault location through the paths covered by travelling waves originated by the fault event. The se...

Ubiquitous computing requires ready access to information that is relevant to users' context – especially information relevant to their current location. Applications on our personal devices should be able to autonomously and continuously harvest the information provided at that location and interrupt us only when it is important to do so. Currently, client devices are designed for explicit que...

Pain is a useful sensation. Nociceptive pain provides warning of impending or actual tissue damage and prompts aversive or attentive actions that protect the body from harm. People who do not feel pain, due to mutation of certain ion channels (1), suffer a lifetime of otherwise avoidable injuries. The consequences of losing the ability to feel pain also are highlighted by the symptoms and clini...

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Thanks to Pylyshyn's work in the imagery debate, theorists are now apt to be at least a bit more cautious when they launch into descriptions of depictive representation. Even if the full force of his critique is not everywhere acknowledged, more care and vigilance is exercized when broaching talk of scanning mental images, focusing on such entities, or rotating them. The very places found in me...

To become truly ubiquitous, next generation location-based services will have to rely on mobile platforms upon which multiple sensors and measurement systems have been integrated to provide continuous, three-dimensional positioning and orientation. Such technologies are explored today for example in mobile mapping systems, vehicle navigation systems and mobile robot navigation. Next-generation ...

Spatial co-location patterns are the subsets of Boolean spatial features whose instances are often located in close geographic proximity. Co-location rules can be identified by spatial statistics or data mining approaches. In data mining method, Association rule-based approaches can be used which are further divided into transaction-based approaches and distance-based approaches. Transaction-ba...

The query service for the location of an object is called Location Based Services (LBSs), and Reverse Nearest Neighbor (RNN) queries are one of them. RNN queries have diversified applications, such as decision support system, market decision, query of database document, and biological information. Studies of RNN in the past, however, focused on inquirers in immobile status without consideration...

present study is an extension of earlier work carried out on two-lane two way roads in the two provinces of pakistan i.e. n-25, n-55 and n-5 regarding the measure of operating speed and development of operating speed prediction models. curved sections of two-lane rural highways are the main location of run-off road accidents. in addition to that the road alignment having combination of geometri...