The TIRAMISU project aims at providing the foundation for a global toolbox that will cover the main mine action activities, from the survey of large areas to the actual disposal of explosive hazards, including mine risk education and training tools. After a short description of some tools, particular emphasis will be given to the topics proposed by the VALLON Workshop, namely the development of...

Even though wikis helped start the web 2.0 phenomenon, they currently run the risk of becoming outdated. In order to find out what aspects of wikis will survive and how wikis might need to evolve, the author held a survey among wiki users. This paper argues that adding RDF integration to wikis helps meet the requirements implicitly contained in the answers of that survey. Technical details are ...

This paper is a survey on the topic in extremal graph theory influenced directly or indirectly by Paul Turán. While trying to cover a fairly wide area, I will try to avoid most of the technical details. Areas covered by detailed fairly recent surveys will also be treated only briefly. The last part of the survey deals with random ±1 matrices, connected to some early results of Szekeres and Turán.

The development of two new classes of commercial underwater robotic vehicles – deep diving work-class remotely operated vehicles and survey-class autonomous vehicles – is being driven by the needs of deep water oil production and deep ocean telecommunication cable operations. This paper presents a survey of the present state and future directions of commercial underwater robotics, examines prin...

This paper brings statistical findings from a survey about the use of UML modeling and model-driven approaches for the design of embedded software in Brazil. The survey provides evidences regarding the maturity of use of UML and model-driven approaches, how they are employed, and which and where the professionals who use them are. Technical, organizational, and social aspects were investigated ...

The Ifo Investment Survey (IS) asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of technical factors, sales, finance, profit expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. Using the survey responses to these questions, we construct measures of aggregate technology and non-technology shocks to quantify their contributions to aggregate inve...

CONTEXT Failure to notify patients of test results is common even when electronic health records (EHRs) are used to report results to practitioners. We sought to understand the broad range of social and technical factors that affect test result management in an integrated EHR-based health system. METHODS Between June and November 2010, we conducted a cross-sectional, web-based survey of all p...

Sugar and sugar lump are from the fundamental goods in Iran that with respect to their share in producing the agricultural products and also their role as an end consumed good or their supplementary and mediatory role in producing much of the family consumed goods, hare received attention. So, this protect has encountered the governmental heavy interferences, price severe fluctuations, vast pro...

A survey was carried out on dairy cattle farms in Pastaza province to analyse the degree of compliance with epidemiological surveillance activities (based on the main technical aspects in Ecuador's Guide to Good Dairy Farming Practices) and to assess the reduction of the risk of introducing disease into dairy cattle. Visits were made to 70 dairy and dual-purpose beef/dairy farms, where the surv...