The prospect of providing city visitors with dynamic and context-sensitive multimedia information whilst on the move is both novel and exciting and raises many interesting research issues. The GUIDE project is currently examining these issues by developing systems and application-level support for hand-portable multimedia GUIDE units with wireless network connectivity, enabling context-sensitiv...

Available methods of valuing environmental changes are often limited in their applicability to current issues such as damage assessment and implementing regulatory controls, or may otherwise not provide reliable readings of community preferences. An alternative is to base decisions on predetermined ® xed schedules of sanctions, restrictions, damage awards, and other allocative guides and incent...

~ N THIS S SI~I S S of Traditions of Spiritual Guidance, which has been running in The Way since 1984, most of the articles have been historical, focusing attention on the contribution which a particular individual, group, movement or school has made to the development of the art of spiritual guidance. This present article, however, is slightly different. All forms of Christian ministry have a ...

Detailed stratigraphic and structural features of the Giddings Brook slice of the Taconic Allochthon in the Granville area. This Field Trip Guide includes Road Log (pp. 222-226), and Outcrop/Stop Descriptions (pp. 227-242). pages 186-242 in: Friedman, G.M. (ed.) Guidebook, 51st N.Y. State Geol. Assoc. Ann. Mtg. and New England Intercollegiate Geol .Conf., 71st Mtg., Rensselaer Poly. Inst., Troy...

As more complex meta-analytical techniques such as network and multivariate meta-analyses become increasingly common, further pressures are placed on reviewers to extract data in a systematic and consistent manner. Failing to do this appropriately wastes time, resources and jeopardises accuracy. This guide (data extraction for complex meta-analysis (DECiMAL)) suggests a number of points to cons...

A hospital-based magnetic guidance system (MGS) was installed to assist a physician in navigating catheters and guide wires during interventional cardiac and neurosurgical procedures. The objective of this study is to examine the performance of this magnetic field-guided navigation system. Our results show that the system's radiological imaging components produce images with quality similar to ...

RESUMO Em 1533, o humanista português Damião de Góis esteve com monge etíope Sāgā za-Ab em Lisboa, conversas sobre a religião cristã, pedindo que ele fizesse uma síntese seus dogmas e prometendo verter texto para latim, resultou no opúsculo Fides, religio moresque Aethiopum (1540). Góis, além do testemunho Sāgā, acrescentou ao livro cartas régias eclesiásticas da diplomacia entre Portugal Etióp...

Article history: Received 26 June 2015 Received in revised form 23 November 2015 Accepted 30 November 2015 Available online 7 December 2015 In areas with hot weather, photovoltaic systems can be used to help relieve the peak demand caused by air conditioning equipment. Users, however, are reluctant to invest in solar technology, arguing that the equipment commercially available is unreliable be...