— Smartphones can provide coverage in large areas all around the world and with the availability of powerful operating systems they can become solid sensing infrastructures. In fact, static sensors are hard to deploy and maintain while modern mobile devices include many sensors that can be used to sense and benefit from collaborative communities. This project tries to improve urban computing by...

In Essex, EssexITS (a joint partnership of Essex County Council, Atkins and Siemens), has taken a hands-on approach to assist the County Council in carrying out its responsibility under TMA2004. EssexITS has developed a number of Integrated Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) strategies to manage Essex’s road network, tackle congestion and proactively prevent or reduce the effect of con...

brief tribute to Dr. C. Forsythe, who had died the previous day, at the age of 88, and who had been an honoured member of the profession in the district. After dinner the toast of The King was honoured, after which Mr. George B. Hanna, K.C., M.P., proposed the health of the British Medical Association. During his speech he congratulated Professor R. J. Jo'hnstone, M.P., on his election to the h...

This paper attempts to give the solution for the urban scenario using DV cast protocol. Normally DV cast protocol is the best solution for highway traffic. But this paper proposed urban dv cast (UDV) protocol to deal with the urban traffic. This UDV protocol is extension of DV cast protocol. Our aim is to address the urban scenario where vehicles are equipped with sensors or wireless devices to...

Economic globalization and telecommunications have contributed to produce a spatiality for the urban which pivots on de-territorialized cross-border networks and territorial locations with massive concentrations of resources. This is not a completely new feature. Over the centuries cities have been at the intersection of processes with supra-urban and even intercontinental scalings. What is dif...

Urban stormwater quality modelling plays a central role in evaluation of the quality of the receiving water body. However, the complexity of the physical processes that must be simulated and the limited amount of data available for calibration may lead to high uncertainty in the model results. This study was conducted to assess modelling uncertainty associated with catchment surface pollution e...

OBJECTIVE The Helping Babies Breathe" (HBB) program is an evidence-based curriculum in basic neonatal care and resuscitation, utilizing simulation-based training to educate large numbers of birth attendants in low-resource countries. We analyzed its cost-effectiveness at a faith-based Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) in rural Tanzania. METHODS Data about early neonatal mortality and fresh still...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the impact of adding emergency medicine residents to a medium-size urban hospital by comparing emergency department (ED) admission rate, total census, length of stay (LOS), and proportion of patients who left without being seen (LWBS). METHODS Using the student t-test, the study compared commonly used ED metrics for a mid-sized urban hospital (annual census 43,000) for the ...

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a national health problem. From 1997 to 2007, the annual number of ED visits in the United States increased from 95 to 117 million, whereas the number of EDs decreased by 10% (1). This increased volume has put demands for acute care services at more than can be provided: 50% of urban hospitals and 31% of rural hospitals continuously operate at or over c...

Article history: Received 2 November 2012 Received in revised form 10 June 2013 Accepted 27 July 2013 Available online 3 September 2013 In this paper we will present studies aimed at uncovering the attitudes, needs, and expectations people have towards novel types of urban computing technologies deployed in a city. First, we conducted a storytelling competition to elicit future visions of how p...