Today a huge amount of geospatial data is being created, collected and used more than ever before. The ever increasing observations and measurements of geosensor networks, satellite imageries, point clouds from laser scanning, geospatial data of Location Based Services (LBS) and location-based social networks has become a serious challenge for data management and analysis systems. Traditionally...

Significant properties are those properties of digital objects that affect their quality, usability, rendering, and behaviour. In an ideal world, free from technical and economic constraints, libraries and archives would preserve their physical and digital collections in their original form with all significant properties intact. Resource constraints and technical limitations, however, often re...

Part I.—Economic Factors and Crime. Crime is a great source of waste. Millions worth of property is destroyed by criminal activity every year, in every country of any importance. Lakhs of rupees are spent on detection of crime and on bringing to book the offenders. Thousands of men are sent to prisons when their crimes are detected, and they have to be fed and housed at State cost. It is true t...

The ancient Indians were the custodians of a highly evolved civilization with great awareness on the decisive importance as well as the vulnerability of man's natural environment. The ancient Indians sages and Rishis had considered human environment from the point of view of physical, chemical, biological and social process that influences directly or indirectly the health and well - being of t...

Objectives To describe the multicentre clinical databases that exist in the United Kingdom, to report on their quality, to explore which organisational and managerial features are associated with high quality, and to make recommendations for improvements. Design Cross sectional survey, with interviews with database custodians and search of electronic bibliographic database (PubMed). Studies rev...

OBJECTIVE This article outlines a protocol for facilitating access to administrative data for the purpose of health services research, when these data are sourced from multiple organisations. This approach is designed to promote confidence in the community and among data custodians that there are benefits of linked health information being used and that individual privacy is being rigorously pr...

A move towards the development of lean, issue-focused interfaces is being explored to provide a rapid delivery mechanism to transfer catchment science to managers and custodians. This approach is a move away from development of large decision support systems which attempt to anticipate a myriad of management questions. It relies on having a modelling system which supports the rapid building and...

BACKGROUND At Western Australia's Data Linkage Branch (DLB) the extraction of linked data has become increasingly complex over the past decade and classical methods of data delivery are unsuited to the larger extractions which have become the norm. The Custodian Administered Research Extract Server (CARES) is a fast, accurate and predictable approach to linked data extraction. METHODS The Dat...

A product of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial history, Ayi Kwei Armah’s fifth novel, The Healers (1978), is steeped in an African communalistic worldview the functional conception art. In this article we examine multiple dimensions to recuperation within context reconstruction Africa, continental search for utopia, responsibility that places on Africans. Using communitarian perspectives healt...

This article describes the powers and competence of local self-government bodies in field guardianship care adults Ukraine. The existing legislative regulation organization activity as does not fully resolve issue determining legal status such general their socio-economic role researched area particular. Guardianship remain impersonal undefined structure state authorities bodies, which is a sig...