Disasters whether natural or man-made occur from time to time and are accompanied by financial and human casualties. Their harmful effects are sometimes immense mostly on the poor, the illiterate, and marginalized people. This condition may be worsened when the governments have no financial support for the poor to save their lives.

Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially useful for complex and high involvement products such as cars, computers, or financial services. In this paper we present the VITA (Virtualis Tanacsado) financial services recommendation environment which has been depl...

The paper presents the SKY-Scanner DSS – a real-time decision support system for air traffic controllers. The system is based on the use of laser for aircraft tracking and assists the controllers in aircraft landing and takeoff. Decision support is based on the normative regulations that are currently applied to aircraft trajectories. The conformance alerting method is chosen. The SKY-Scanner D...

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR POOR FAMILIES IN ITALY (written by Isabella Ferrari 1 ) I. Family struggles in dealing with mortgage repayments Family finances have assumed an important role in the dynamics of worldwide legislation. The family has to be considered the primary economic unit, the catalyst for national growth and development; it is a source of earnings as well as of debts, strictly dependin...

Gap-acoustic solitons (GASs), which make use of the nearly universal electrostrictive light-sound interaction, offer promising new avenues for slowing light. Optical gap solitons exist inside the frequency region of the band gap created by a Bragg grating. The Bragg grating, which may be considered as a distributed mirror for wavelengths in phase with it, keeps low-intensity light out of the ga...