The importance of emergency response system has grown significantly in recent times due to the frequent manmade and natural disasters such as September 2001 and Hurricane Sandy 2012. Disaster, manmade and natural, causes great economic and human losses each year throughout the world. Transportation and Telecommunication play a crucial role in disaster response and management. Our previous work ...

Studies were carried out by the grapevine berries sprayed with copper hydroxide (Kocide 3000) to assess its quality in terms of reducing sugars, non reducing sugars, total sugars and acidity. The total, reducing and non reducing sugars were higher in the grapevine berries sprayed with Copper hydroxide comparing with that of control plots. Fruit quality was improved in Copper hydroxide (Kocide 3...

Factors affecting vehicle occupancy measurement were examined with the aim of improving state vehicle occupancy monitoring programs. A comparison was conducted of five data sets looking at the effects on average vehicle occupancy (AVO) of time of day, day of week, road types, HOV lanes, locational differences, and traffic volume. It was found that AVO was higher in the afternoons, on Saturdays,...

The polygonal lines traditionally used in parallel coordinates have two substantial limitations. First, they possess only C0 continuity, which causes the “cross-over” problem. Second, for large datasets, the lines become cluttered, obscuring inherent structure in the data. We introduce a model for curve bundles in parallel-coordinates plots to overcome these problems. The C0 polygonal lines are...

This paper proposes a method of describing narrative structure, that focuses on the behavior of the characters in the story. It also proposes to assign the concepts of focus, polarity, dynamic, motivation, and result as attributes of behavior. Utilizing these attributes, the plots of shortshort stories by Shinichi Hoshi can be represented formally. Moreover, the method presented here shows that...

We show that many different set visualization techniques can be extended with the addition of labeled elements using font attributes. Elements labeled with font attributes can: uniquely identify elements; encode membership in ten sets; use size to indicate proportions among set relations; can scale to thousands on clearly labeled elements; and use intuitive mappings to facilitate decoding. The ...

A new fast pruning algorithm is proposed for computing the IV, lowest frequency components of a Iength-~V discrete cosine transform, where AVO is any integer less than or equal to N, and AV = 2“‘. The computational complexity of the developed algorithm is lower than any of the existing algorithms, resulting in significant time savings. In the special case that AVO = 2 “ Q , the required number ...