The volatile global security environment has changed warfighting. Battles in the arena of terrorism demand mature judgment, decision-making, and collaboration of warfighters who are often young, and often “part-time” (Reserve or National Guard) soldiers. Traditional methods of training are strained by logistical challenges, geographic distribution of personnel, and limited resources that preclu...

Geografische Variabilität der Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsleistungen hat vielfältige Ursachen. Sie kann auf Qualitätsprobleme im Gesundheitswesen hinweisen. Über die Situation in Schweiz war bisher wenig bekannt. Die Studie «Geographic variation the utilisation of health care inter­ventions: what is role recommendations and other influences?» widmete sich diesem Fragen­komplex.

OBJECTIVES Our main objective was to assess sociodemographic differences in the probability of prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects (CHD); we also looked at differences in termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly (TOPFA). DESIGN Prospective cohort observational study. SETTING Population-based cohort of CHD (live births, TOPFA, fetal deaths) born to women residing in the Greater ...

We present a new geographic routing algorithm, Greedy Distributed Spanning Tree Routing (GDSTR), that finds shorter routes and generates less maintenance traffic than previous algorithms. While geographic routing potentially scales well, it faces the problem of what to do at local dead ends where greedy forwarding fails. Existing geographic routing algorithms handle dead ends by planarizing the...

particulate and gaseous emissions of pollutants from industries and auto-exhausts are responsible for rising discomfort, aggravates respiratory and cardiovascular. in this study, a system for air quality information in tehran city has been developed, using an online web-based geographic information system. this web-based gis application allows users to recognize areas with a potential increase ...

Since many years, life charting has been used to describe the life course and life events of psychiatric patients. The aim of the present study was to describe and evaluate time geographic life charts of 11 former psychiatric patients in order to promote systematic descriptions of their life events over time. Information on all events which was gathered from the life charts was analysed by mani...

GeoWorlds (http://www.isi.edu/geoworlds ) is a component-based information management system aimed at helping organizations to marshal, analyze, discuss, and act on all of the available information about a situation playing out over space and time. The system integrates digital library, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensor data management technologies, together with other inf...

Most civil engineering tasks require accessing, surveying and modifying geospatial data in the field and referencing this virtual, geospatial information to the real world situation. Augmented Reality (AR) can be a useful tool to create, edit and update geospatial data representing real world artifacts by interacting with the 3D graphical representation of the geospatial data augmented in the u...

This report is willing to give an overview of the situation regarding the geo-referencing of BIM models in GIS. The focus is made on identifying how the geographic coordinates of a construction project shall be integrated in its 3D model such that the information is kept in the context of a GIS application. We study the case of BIMs designed using the Autodesk Revit software and exported as IFC...