The telecommunication industry has evolved into a highly competitive market, which requires companies to put an effective customer relation approach in place. In order to increase customer relationship management, social network analysis (SNA) can be used to increase the knowledge related to the customers’ influence. SNA can improve relevant information that helps to increase the customer exper...

Every year millions of people around the world train for, and compete in, the marathon. As race-day approaches, and training schedules begin to wind down, many participants will turn their attention to their race strategy, as they strive to achieve their best time. To help with this, in this paper we describe a novel application of case-based reasoning to address the dual task of: (1) predictin...

INTRODUCTION An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale on 23 December 2003 devastated the city of Bam in southeastern Iran. During the response and recovery phases, considerable shortcomings were discovered. The dire situation in the affected area, a variety of urgently required interventions, and the large number of aid organizations involved brought about difficulties in management, co...

The trajectory of the impacting asteroid is another issue of considerable debate and still unresolved. Historically, circular plan views of impact craters confounded many investigators who assumed a circular crater requires a vertical impact. They wondered why more craters are not elliptical. Gilbert and Barringer both realized that 45° impacts are the most probable trajectories for meteoritic ...

Plan: I: Some facts about logical necessity stated. II: Not all necessity is logical. III: The need for an explanation. IV: Formalists attempt unsuccessfully to reduce logic to syntax. V: The no-sense theory of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus merely reformulates the problem. VI: Crude conventionalism is circular. VII: Extreme conventionalism is more sophisticated. VIII: It yields some important insigh...

IUCN Red List Category (E. burchellii, E.b. antiquorum, and E.b. boehmi were assessed using version 3.1; all others with version 2.3): Equus burchellii LC Least Concern E. b. boehmi LR Lower Risk E. b. zambesiansis DD Data Deficient (? extinct in wild) E. b. crawshayi DD Data Deficient (? endangered) E. b. chapmani DD Data Deficient E. b. antiquorum LR Lower Risk E. b. burchellii EX Extinct (1930)

Accessibility regulations are federally enacted by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Design of buildings and facilities must comply with the guidelines developed by the authors of ADA. This paper discusses a hybrid approach using encoding prescriptive-based provisions and supplementing them with performance-based methods to support compliance and usability analysis for accessibility. T...

The physics of motion of a sliding object can be used to plan sensorless robot manipulation strategies. Prediction of a sliding object’s motion is difficult because the object’s distribution of support on the surface, and the resulting frictional forces, are in general unknown. This paper describes a new approach to the analysis of sliding motion, which finds the set of object motions for all d...

Disaster management planning of all educational institutes in high earthquake prone-areas is a necessity. In this paper, the development of an earthquake management system for nursery schools is highlighted. The unavoidable nature of the disasters, the impossibility to predict them and the need for considering the safety of the very young generation who are the future assets of communities emph...

Discusses the formulation of a business recovery plan. As a starting point, presents the business recovery timeline model. Gives a framework of components to be considered in a business continuity project planning process, i.e. a risk reduction programme. In the last few years, disaster recovery (DR) practitioners (for IT systems) and business recovery (BR) practitioners (for core business acti...