Densely populated areas in rural China require constant vigilance and state-of-the-art technology to stop new pandemics in their tracks. Hurdles are not only scientific in some parts of the developing world.

We describe our participation in the INEX 2008 Entity Ranking and Link-the-Wiki tracks. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to these tasks. For the Link-the-Wiki track, we also report on the results and findings so far.

The development of “slab track” was started by Japan in 1955 and the “Committee of slab track research” was established in 1971 for exclusive development of slab track. This makes Japan the country that has invested the most effort into slab tracks. On 5 January 2007, the THSR transferred from Japanese Shinkansen started its commercial operation. The stability and comfort of train operation hav...

In the context of learning activity, which is supported by a system, it is important to have a feedback on the actors' usage of the learning system. The feedback is given especially by tracks [1]. In our research activities, we think that it is interesting to propose a methodology, which describe how to put in place a whole of organization, which facilitate and allow the tracking of an implemen...

Clock-shifted homing pigeons were tracked from familiar sites 17.1 km and 23.5 km from the home loft in Pisa, Italy, using an on-board route recorder. At the first release site, north of home, the majority of clock-shifted birds had relatively straight tracks comparable with those of control birds. At the second release site, south of home, the clock-shifted birds deflected in the direction pre...

I went home from my study group and I thought I’d write a song A light hearted little anecdote to carry us along A humorous look at training and the eportfolio Just how do we get our trainees to learn all the things we know? But events that followed after came and stopped me in my tracks And our talks of authenticity had me thinking back Life isn’t always funny when we’re in the here and now An...

The geographic distribution of life on Earth supports a general pattern of increase in biodiversity with increasing temperature. However, some previous analyses of the 540-million-year Phanerozoic fossil record found a contrary relationship, with paleodiversity declining when the planet warms. These contradictory findings are hard to reconcile theoretically. We analyze marine invertebrate biodi...

An experiment was designed to test whether different individuals produce similar voice patterns when they read the same emotional passage. Quantitative scoring criteria were developed that reflect the extent to which different individuals consistently produce similar constellations of acoustic attributes in response to the same emotional context. The scoring procedure was applied to the voice t...