Selected trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Se, Zn) were measured in the kidneys and the liver of 104 harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded along the coasts of France, Galicia (Spain), Ireland, Scotland (UK), and the Netherlands. Generally, relatively low concentrations of toxic elements were encountered in the tissues of European porpoises, except for two individuals, which displayed high he...

OBJECTIVE Nursing Minimum Data Sets can be used to compare nursing care across clinical populations, settings, geographical areas, and time. NMDS can support nursing research, nursing management, and nursing politics. However, in contrast to other countries, Austria does not have a unified NMDS. The objective of this study is to identify possible data elements for an Austrian NMDS. METHODS A ...

The integration of information from different sources within the enterprise is one of the basis for implementing successful Decision Support Systems (DSS). Typically a DSS supplies analytical information obtained and transformed from large data warehouses. Recently, the geographical component of information has become more important due to the growing use of this type of information in logistic...

This paper introduces the Telecommunication Outside Plant Markup Language (TOPML), an OpenGis GML (Geographic Markup Language) application schema designed to describe telecommunication outside plant data in which geographical information is an important issue. TOPML uses the standard OpenGis GML schema to include geographic properties to georeferenced telecom network elements. The use of TOPML ...

Advance increasing interest in large-scale, highresolution, real-time geographic information system (GIS) applications and spatial big data processing, traditional GIS are not efficient enough to handle due to limited computational capabilities. Geospatial analytics in big data needed new approaches that are flexible, non-parametric and should be able for dynamic modeling with non-linear proces...

Distributed representations of textual elements in low dimensional vector space to capture context has gained great attention recently. Current state-of-the-art word embedding techniques compute distributed representations using co-occurrences of words within a contextual window discounting the flexibility to incorporate other contextual phenomena like temporal, geographical, and topical contex...

Retrieving relevant data for location-sensitive keyword queries is a challenging task that has so far been addressed as a problem of automatically determining the geographical orientation of web searches. Unfortunately, identifying localizable queries is not sufficient per se for performing successful location-sensitive searches, unless there exists a geo-referenced index of data sources agains...

Floristic patterns of seed plants in Yunnan, southwestern China, were studied to assess the relationship between the floristic geography and geological history. A database of 38 regional floristic studies covering Yunnan was used and the patterns of seed plant distributions across these regional floras were quantified at the generic level. Genera with tropical Asian distributions are the most d...

environmental management and planning and benefiting from climatic capacities of every geographical place are related to homogenous climatic regions and the most influential climatic elements in spatial separation of the climatic regions. accordingly, the aim of the present study includes determining the most influential climatic elements affecting on the climate of esfahan province, and the sp...

The tropical climate in China exists in southeastern Xizang (Tibet), southwestern to southeastern Yunnan, southwestern Guangxi, southern Guangdon, southern Taiwan, and Hainan, and these southern Chinese areas contain tropical floras. I checked and synonymized native seed plants from these tropical areas in China and recognized 12,844 species of seed plants included in 2,181 genera and 227 famil...