Substance-dependence is highly associated with executive cognitive function (ECF) impairments. However, considering that it is difficult to assess ECF clinically, the aim of the present study was to examine the feasibility of a brief neuropsychological tool (the Frontal Assessment Battery - FAB) to detect specific ECF impairments in a sample of substance-dependent individuals (SDI). Sixty-two s...

Information and communication technology (ICT), information infrastructure (II), geographic information system (GIS), and spatial data infrastructure (SDI) have interdependences. However, there has not been systematic exploration of their dependences, and therefore the nature of their relationships is not precisely known. Here, we use the “Bermuda” metaphor to initiate the discussion on which o...

This supplemental material gives the extended definitions of the tuple operations, lists the definition of some transformation operators, details the examples about DEVIATION, SEQBIN, and LONGESTPLATEAU, and describes the experimental protocol for the experiments. 1 Extended Definitions of Tuple Operations The projection 〈vi1 , . . . , vik〉 of a tuple 〈v1, . . . , vn〉 onto a subset of its compo...

Local government has been recognised as an early leader in the development, deployment and innovation in spatial information systems. The introduction of corporate wide spatial data portals within local government was as significant as the release of Google Earth to the wider public. Although these information systems continue to expand and mature, the potential for these local spatial data inf...

In this study, we proposed a stochastic deletion-insertion (SDI) algorithm for constructing large-scale linkage maps. This SDI algorithm was compared with three published approximation approaches, the seriation (SER), neighbor mapping (NM), and unidirectional growth (UG) approaches, on the basis of simulated F(2) data with different population sizes, missing genotype rates, and numbers of marke...

This paper focuses on the deployment of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) within local government in Thai Provinces. GIS has been used extensively within local government and many countries have undertaken SDI initiatives, but these tend to focus at the national level, failing to address the local deployment issues. By their nature as infrastructures,...

The scientific and professional community researching spatial data infrastructures (SDI) has largely developed outside of the electronic government (eGov) discussion podia, yet increasingly refers to basic concepts of eGov. I question however to which extent the axiologies and epistemologies of SDI and eGov are related, and whether there are common grounds and possible missing links between the...