Earthquake Administration, Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. Environmental Education Media Project, Beijing 100025, China. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Pyongyang International Infor...

— The student generation nowadays is considered as the Net Generation who grow up in the age of Internet and mobile technology and prefer bringing technological application into their life. The Learning Resource Center – an academic information center-takes the initiative in developing a collaborative network with the students' participation for delivering information of natural disasters and c...

Most studies of spatial colocation patterns of crime and land-use features in geographical information science and environmental criminology employ global measures, potentially obscuring spatial inhomogeneity. This study investigated the relationships of three types of crime with 22 types of land-use in Wuhan, China. First, global colocation patterns were examined. Then, local colocation patter...

The poison (Zn3P2) bait mixed with preputial gland and cheek gland extract was highly effective as compared to poison bait mixed without the scent gland extract, in increasing the food consumption and mortality rate in rats. Among these two scent glands, preputial gland extract was more effective than cheek gland extract in increasing the bait acceptance. The scent gland extract mixed with pois...

Abstract: Here city logistics terminal is defined as the facility consisting of warehouse center, marketing center, freight detaching center, distributing center and the information center. It is a link of freight transport between transport terminal such as port, railway freight station and highway entrance and the retailing facilities. The purpose of this study is to optimize the size and spa...

In the paper we present the method of automatic recognition and annotation of proper names which occur in dialogs gathered at the Warsaw city transportation information center. We describe different types of proper names and how people use them in dialogs. We present rules of automatic recognition and lemmatization of proper names in the transportation domain.

These recommendations were endorsed by APC together with a proposal by the Convener of the Expert Panel (N.McC. Graham) and the Director of the Australian Feeds Information Centre (T.F. Leche) that a national committee be formed to implement them. The Standing Committee on Agriculture (SCA) at its 116th meeting in January 1979, following receipt of the APC recommendations, agreed to the establi...

AFSTRACT THREEMAJOR ISstrES AM. .~DRF.SSEDin this discussion: (1) the role, status, and compensation of such nonprofessionals as library clerks or technicians vis-$-vis professionals, the organization, and the public, particularly in their claims for, or realization of, professional status; (2) the role, authority, status, and compensation of nonlibrarian professionals appointed as directors or...

In the last 50 years, very many new energetic compounds have been made as potential ingredients for explosive, propellant and pyrotechnic formulations. Of these compounds very few have come to be used in military munitions. To obtain a better understanding of why this has been the case and to help address the discrepancy, the NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Centre (NIMIC) held a workshop...