Is the use of an online course delivery format, when compared with the more traditional face-to-face format, good or bad in the context of university education? Those who subscribe to the no-significant-difference perspective argue that online delivery is good, because it allows students with time and geographic distance constraints to obtain the education that they need, with no significant ne...

Point of Departure " First Law of Geography " : " Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. " — Waldo Tobler, 1970 Fundamental Dialectological Postulate: " Geographically proximate varieties tend to be more similar than distant ones. " — Nerbonne & Kleiweg, 2007 Tested on different types of data (surveys, corpora) Several kinds of geograph...

Recently, camouflaging geographical origin of agricultural products is a major problem in Japan. Therefore, we developed a distributed geographical origin identification system which identifies cultivated farms of vegetables by using trace element compositions of vegetables. This system stores compositions of trace, or very small quantities of elements into database which located on farming dis...

Measuring how much cybercrime exists is typically done by first defining cybercrime and then quantifying how many cases fit that definition. The drawback is that definitions vary across countries and many cybercrimes are recorded as traditional crimes. An alternative is to keep traditional definitions of crime and quantify the amount of associated information and communication technologies (ICT...

BACKGROUND Antibiotic-resistant pathogens are challenging treatment of infections worldwide. Urban sewage is potentially a major conduit for dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes into various environmental compartments. However, the diversity and abundance of such genes in wastewater are not well known. METHODS Here, seasonal and geographical distributions of antibiotic resistance gene...

Geographical problem solving environments are becoming the most popular tools which used to solve sophisticated problems. In order to overcome the obstacles caused by mutli-sourced heterogeneous spatial data, a data representation model (DRM) is designed. A data representation model is a description used to provide identification of all data elements within a system, including their attributes ...

This report provides a geographical analysis of endemic and relict plants the Chechen Republic. And problems screen these species are considered. The spectrum is represented by 23 elements. basis this compilation elements plants. authors carried out problem protection studied species.

Abstract Researchers in science and engineering have a long tradition of collaboration, and increasingly carry out these collaborations across geographical distance. Similar trends exist in industry, where virtual teams are increasing in frequency. While we know that such dispersed collaborations are difficult, there is growing evidence of success. The physical and biological sciences have led ...

BACKGROUND Identification of socioeconomic and health inequalities at the local scale is facilitated by using relevant small geographical sectors. Although these places are routinely defined according to administrative boundaries on the basis of statistical criteria, it is important to carefully consider the way they are circumscribed as they can create spatial analysis problems and produce mis...