Spatial information is getting ever more prominent on the web. As envisioned by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) a spatial strand has been woven into the web. However, the buildup of the geospatial web takes place with scarce utilization of OGC standards only. One reason might be of architectural nature. Many successful web services follow the paradigm of Representational State Transfer (RE...

Although the fast development of OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) WFS (Web Feature Service) technologies has undoubtedly improved the sharing and synchronization of feature-level geospatial information across diverse resources, literature shows that there are still apparent limitations in the current implementation of OGC WFSs. Currently, the implementation of OGC WFSs only emphasizes syntactic...

Distinctive views of the tubulo-vesicular elements interposed between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the Golgi apparatus were obtained in thin sections. The tubules that protrude from the transitional rough ER (tRER) are of dissimilar length. The numbers of tubules and of the nearby omega- and pear-shaped profiles decrease after fasting and are partially restored by refeeding. This formatio...

A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the efficacy of methylprednisolone pulse therapy for Graves' ophthalmopathy. Eight studies involving 376 patients were included. A higher effective rate was found for patients treated with intravenous glucocorticoids (IVGC) over oral glucocorticoids (OGC) (risk ratio [RR] = 1.48; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.18-1.86). The combined IVGC and orbital r...

Introduction: Oculogyric crisis (OGC) is a dystonic reaction characterized as conjugate and typically upward deviation of the eyes lasting from seconds to hours which seen an uncommon neurologic manifestation. Metoclopramide prokinetic agent that frequently prescribed in treatment nausea, vomiting prophylaxis, vomiting. One side effects after metoclopramide acute reactions.Case Presentation: We...

The OpenGIS Consortium (OGC), an industry group, has developed COM, CORBA and Java interface specifications allowing vendors to develop mutually interoperable geospatial software. OGC established the Coordinate Transformation Working Group (CT-WG) in April 1998. The working group developed a Unified Modeling Language object model of coordinate systems (CS) and coordinate transformations (CT) in...

In the Digital Forestry area, there is more and more requirements for spatial information connection and processing. From a prototype of geospatial computational grid (GCG), the relationship between the geospatial computational grid and OGC Interoperability protocols is proposed in this paper. A prototype of geospatial information grid is given in this paper. Digital Forestry Grid is proposed a...

An intelligent geoportal orchestrates (automatically coordinate) web services to prepare, discover and present information to the user. Implementations of web service standards by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics, such as, the Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) enable the display of spatial data...

The standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) provide a broad foundation for web-based geographical applications. As one of these the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), which comprises standards for the consumerand provider-oriented sensor viewpoint, allows data requests of real-time sensor measurements and observations, abstracting from the inherent sensor particularities. The ...

This paper addresses the discovery of sensors within the OGC Sensor Web Enablement framework. Whereas services like the OGC Web Map Service or Web Coverage Service are already well supported through catalogue services, the field of sensor networks and the according discovery mechanisms is still a challenge. The focus within this article will be on the use of existing OGC Sensor Web components f...