â â â  the geographical territory of caucasia includes areas which have been referred to, in various forms, in geographical, historical and even literary texts. studies on the history of caucasia in different eras show that not only this region was not originally called by this name, but, later on, this name was not used for what is now modern caucasia. studies show that each part of caucasia w...

P2P file-sharing applications are quickly being adopted by a wider and more mainstream audience. There is much to be learned from keyword searches users perform in order to retrieve content from these networks. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of search terms in the modern Gnutella network. We developed a highly parallelized architecture capable of capturing an unprecedented ...

In the year 1988 a new topographical map 1:50’000 of the Mount Everest region was published by the National Geographical Society. The full map content was derived from aerial images of scale 1:35’000, acquired in a 1984 photogrammetric flight. This highly acclaimed topographical map, produced with Swiss photogrammetric and cartographic know-how, serves until nowadays as an important work of ref...

BACKGROUND Trauma systems reduce mortality and improve functional outcomes. The aim of this study was to analyse the demographic and geospatial characteristics of pediatric trauma patients in Scotland, and determine the level of destination healthcare facility which injured children are taken to, to determine the need for, and general feasibility, of developing a pediatric trauma system for Sco...