ÐThis paper investigates temporal changes of topological relationships and thereby integrates two important research areas: First, two-dimensional topological relationships that have been investigated quite intensively and, second, the change of spatial information over time. We investigate spatio-temporal predicates, which describe developments of well-known spatial topological relationships. ...

In this paper I define spatio-temporal regions as pairs consisting of a spatial and a temporal component and I define topological relations between them. Using the notion of rough sets I define approximations of spatio-temporal regions and relations between those approximations. Based on relations between approximated spatio-temporal regions configurations of spatio-temporal objects can be char...

Object-Relational Database (ORDB) techniques are developed rapidly in recent years and widely used for spatial data storage and manipulation. The ORDB has strong basis both on theories and applications, and if well extended, it can also be used to handle spatio-temporal data. Although ample research on spatio-temporal data modeling has been performed, very little work exists on how to implement...

1) Abstract In this article we test and evaluate the implementation of a dimension of spatio-temporal topological operators within a hypercube, a multidimensional database (MDDB) structure formed by the conjunction of several dimensions. Our goal is to permit adequate Spatio-Temporal Exploration and Analysis (STEA) in the context of Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS), the amateur radio ...

Taiwan Southern Min syllable contraction, like many lenition processes, it is known to be influenced by lexical frequency. To explore the mechanism behind this influence, a shadowing experiment was run. The primary dependent measures were acoustic correlates of intersyllabic segment reduction and tonal merger. Independent measures included lexical frequency, production latency (as a measure of ...

The spatio-temporal analysis of residential fires could allow decision makers to plan effective resource allocations in fire management according to fire clustering levels in space and time. In this study, we provide guidelines for the use of various methods in detecting the differences in clustering patterns of fire and non-fire (i.e., background residential) locations and how these patterns c...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a rodent-borne disease caused by many serotypes of hantaviruses. In China, HFRS has been recognized as a severe public health problem with 90% of the total reported cases in the world. This study describes the spatiotemporal dynamics of HFRS cases in China and identifies the regions, time, and populations at highest risk, which could he...

City-wide urban infrastructures are increasingly reliant on networked technology to improve and expand their services. As a side effect of this digitalization, large amounts of data can be sensed and analyzed to uncover patterns of human behavior. In this paper, we sense and analyze data from a new type of urban infrastructure called shared bicycling. We provide a spatio-temporal analysis of si...

BACKGROUND Transmission mechanisms of black-band disease (BBD) in coral reefs are poorly understood, although this disease is considered to be one of the most widespread and destructive coral infectious diseases. The major objective of this study was to assess transmission mechanisms of BBD in the field based on the spatio-temporal patterns of the disease. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS 3,175...

BACKGROUND Scrub typhus is endemic in the Asia-Pacific region including China, and the number of reported cases has increased dramatically in the past decade. However, the spatial-temporal dynamics and the potential risk factors in transmission of scrub typhus in mainland China have yet to be characterized. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of reported scrub typ...