This paper presents a real-time news event extraction system developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It is capable of accurately and efficiently extracting violent and natural disaster events from online news without using much linguistic sophistication. In particular, in our linguistically relatively lightweight approach to event extraction clustered news have been h...

Tweets exchanged over the Internet represent an important source of information, even if their characteristics make them difficult to analyze (e.g. a maximum of 140 characters, etc.). In addition associated to every message, lots of information such as location or date, are available. Taking into account these meta-information can be very useful for the decision maker. Obviously, due to the cha...

BACKGROUND Many studies have examined the risk factors for HCC (including hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, aflatoxin, retinol, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption). However, data from previous studies on the association between iron exposure, land subsidence, and HCC mortality/incidence were limited, especially in Taiwanese population. We aimed to explore the geographical distributi...

In this paper, a novel approach of building damaged detection is proposed using high resolution remote sensing images and 3D GIS-Model data. Traditional building damage detection method considers to detect damaged building due to earthquake, but little attention has been paid to analyze various building damaged types(e.g., trivial damaged, severely damaged and totally collapsed.) Therefore, we ...

BACKGROUND The increased funding and reimbursement for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) have provided residents in rural China with better access to inpatient services. This research aims to examine the level of inappropriate admissions to township hospitals under NRCMS, and the determinants that influence inappropriate admissions. METHODS A total of 2,044 medical records in 1...

Yung-I Lee, Chih-Kai Yang and Gerhard Gebauer* Biology Department, National Museum of Natural Science, No 1, Kuan-Chien Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, The Experimental Forest, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, 12 Chienshan Rd., Sec. 1, Chushan Township, Nantou 55750, Taiwan, Departme...

According to the human consequences caused by emergencies and disasters, the health system especially hospitals, are among the first places that are influenced by this events. Continuity of service provision by hospitals after emergencies and disasters is one of the important issues that should be taken into consideration by all people and authorities. For hospitals, it is necessary to promote ...