ABSTRACT The low density of precipitation gauges, the areas difficult access and high number missing values hinder a rapid effective hydrological monitoring. Thus, present study aims to statistically validate estimates by data Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) in relation observed Conventional Meteorological Stations (CMSs) geographic regions Brazil. statistical indicators used were: C...

We investigate a corpus of geographical distributions of 17,126 Finnish dialect words. Our goal is to automatically find sets of words characteristic to geographical regions. Though our approach is related to the problem of dividing the investigation area into linguistically (and geographically) relatively coherent dialect regions, we do not aim at constructing more or less questionable dialect...

one of the methods used in the analysis of data related to diseases, and their underlying reasons is drawing geographical map. mapping diseases is a valuable tool to determine the regions of high rate of infliction requiring therapeutic interventions. the objective of this study was to investigate obesity pattern in iran by drawing geographical maps based on bayesian spatial model to recognize ...

Location based push services will offer customers the possibility to select geographical regions for their services or to distribute information to them. A convenient way to disseminate information in a geographical region is the utilization of geographical routing. Messages can be forwarded via geometrical operations through a carrier access network to the mobile devices in a selected region. ...

This study was aimed to examine geographical stability of generation frequency norms for semantic categories in Russian language. Participants from three different regions of Russia carried out a standard procedure for generating exemplars of 45 semantic categories. For each exemplar, overall generation frequency was calculated in each of three regions. Correlations of generation frequency data...