The FM band (87.5-108 MHz) is home to a large number of radio programmes, and is still the main means of radio broadcasting in Europe. However, the FM band is fully allocated and therefore cannot offer a basis for increased diversity in the radio broadcasting landscape, nor can it offer an increase in the coverage areas of the broadcasters already licensed. Local radio as well as community and ...

The choice of a commercial Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine is important for the process of automatically indexing technical drawings from their title blocks. We would like to benchmark commercial OCR engines with respect to their inclusion in the global digitalisation chain from scanning to understanding the text information contained in a technical drawing document. The crucial (cos...

Digitalisation can be viewed as the motor of transformation for the tourism industry in the age of the internet economy. While the increase of digitalised or completely virtualised products in tourism reflects this development, current eTourism applications are rather fragmented with regards to conceptualisation, structure and layout. However, in the increasing competitive internet economy, a s...

Abstract. Preserving historical archival heritage involves not only physical measures to safeguard these valuable texts but also providing for their digital preservation. However, merely digitising manuscripts and codexes is enough. A further step needed: the digitalisation of content, i.e. verbatim transcription scanned texts. This process enables accurate preservation textual making it easier...

This pioneering study endeavours to ascertain how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted on digitalisation in European Union member states. The second objective is elucidate ties between and security terms of military spending, threats, government effectiveness. Whilst using hierarchical clustering, it was detected that era had diversified EU states even more. fixed-effect model confirmed changes been ...

The aim of this paper is to present the preliminary results obtained through a composite data processing system using Multiple Correspondence Analysis in order to perform data fusion and deduce rules of spatial organisation. After having described a case study on the cartography of Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed), currently investigated on the Urban Community of Montreal (Canada) terri...

Author details Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Domain of Infection Control and Environmental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P.O. Box 4404NydalenNO-0403 Oslo, Norway. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. Unit for Nutrition Research, Landspitali University Hospital and University of Iceland, Reykjavik, ...