Disaster management and disaster medicine are well-established disciplines for responding to disasters and providing care for individuals whose health and wellbeing has been affected. However, these disciplines have different origins, development, and priorities so that communication and coordination across them during disasters is often lacking, leading to delayed, sub-standard, inappropriate,...

Due to the recency and relatively limited adoption of Semantic Web technologies, practical issues related to technology scaling have received less attention than foundational issues. Nonetheless, these issues must be addressed if the Semantic Web is to realize its full potential. In particular, we concentrate on the lack of scoping methods that reduce the size of semantic information spaces so ...

Mixin-based inheritance is an inheritance technique that has been shown to subsume a variety of different inheritance mechanisms. It is based directly upon an incremental modification model of inheritance. This paper addresses the question of how mixins can be seen as named attributes of classes the same way that objects, methods, and also classes in their own right, are seen as named attribute...

This paper seeks modeling guidelines by which project teams may respond confidently to the client’s urgency while simultaneously assuring valuable and valid analyses. We conclude that “de-scoping” is the only reliable approach for accelerating a business process simulation project in response to client pressures. A thought experiment supports this conclusion.

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (?), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantiier scoping and ellipsis resolution. It is argued that the order-independence results from viewing semantic interpretation as building a description of a semantic composition, instead of the more common view of interpretation as ac...

This is a scoping paper that addresses healthy food access in Melbourne. The investigation is premised the concept of ‘food deserts’, spaces within cities that lack ‘adequate access’ to affordable, healthy food. The paper is more broadly located within the on-going debate around Melbourne’s purported two-track urban growth. However, the paper reframes the discussion away from housing supply/dem...

It is conjectured that there exist finitely many isomorphism classes of simple endomorphism algebras of abelian varieties of GL2-type over Q of bounded dimension. We explore this conjecture when particularized to quaternion endomorphism algebras of abelian surfaces by giving a moduli interpretation which translates the question into the diophantine arithmetic of Shimura curves embedded in Hilbe...

During the past decade a number of methods and techniques for software product line scoping have been developed. Although their basic goal is the same, when it comes to details it is often hard to see what they have in common, where they differ and what their strengths and weaknesses are. This makes it difficult for the user to decide when and how to use them because these methods and technique...

Aims and Objectives To systematically identify and critically examine the evidence on the contribution of the HIV nurse specialist to provision of HIV care in the UK and other developed countries. Background The HIV clinical nurse specialist role has evolved over the past two decades in response to changes in two areas of HIV care: Firstly changes in the treatment and care of those with HIV and...

Network visualizations are powerful albeit suggestive means to represent and explore complex relations between entities (people, words, places...) and have become increasingly popular with cultural heritage institutions. In this article we briefly introduce the functionality of histoGraph (Wieneke et al. 2014), a technical demonstrator for the network-based analysis of photographs, survey curre...