Atmospheric pollution would increase morbidity and mortality rates for various respiratory illnesses in urban areas, and could also be an explanatory factor of higher rates of myocardial infarction in Charleroi compared with the other Belgian cities. The present study investigates the health effects of acute exposure to air pollution on cardiovascular morbidity/mortality in Charleroi. The study...

Though research on inclusive education makes up a considerable part of the special field, very few studies have explored how beliefs and ideas about inclusion exclusion emerg...

e-cities is a concept for a system that would bring research knowledge of the cultural heritage, in particular the history of cities, into popular use. The idea was developed as a model of multi-lingual cultural content management and dissemination. The system could be implemented as a fully functional and reproducible system applicable to any city, anywhere. Much of the technology is being or ...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has quickly moved from hype to reality. Like other disruptive technologies, such as smartphones and cloud computing, IoT has the potential for a societal scale impact by transforming our daily lives. Major companies have already started to pioneer this transformation by introducing a range of products in the areas of smart homes, smart cities, and health care. While...

Urban areas around the world are populating their streets with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in order to feed incipient smart city IT systems with metropolitan data. In the future smart cities, WSN technology will have a massive presence in the streets, and the operation of municipal services will be based to a great extent on data gathered with this technology. However, from an information s...