European integration started in different contexts, after the World War II, as an answer to contingent tensions, but also realization of a project elaborated centuries by idealists derivation. Its main aim would be that overcoming rivalries often brought contiguous counties fighting each other desperate non-sense wars. Such kind continent is periodically exposed to, need managed, requiring for ...

Background: Soil serves as a major reservoir for contaminants as it can bind to various chemicals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of some metals (Cd, Cu, Fe and V) in soil samples collected from different stations of Ahvaz Industrial Complex II to determine the natural and anthropogenic contribution of metal in the soil. Methods: This was an experimental study that carried ou...

background: heavy metal pollution in the sediment of the yellow river draws wide attention in the recent years. the yellow river wetland nature reserve of zhengzhou is one of the major wetlands of the river and located at the beginning of the lower reach. in this article, we aimed to investigate the degree and the sources of the metal pollution in the reserve. methods: metals as cu, pb, cr, cd ...

On-demand service platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft) match consumers with independent workers nearby at short notice. To manage fluctuating supply and demand conditions across market locations (zones), many on-demand platforms provide market forecasts to workers and practice surge pricing, wherein the price in a particular zone is temporarily raised above the regular price. We jointly analyze the str...

Every organization needs a staff appropriate for its tasks in order to accomplish its business objectives, both now and in the future. To gain insight into the quality and number of staff needed in the future, human resource forecasting models are being used. This chapter addresses the design of a simulation model for human resources forecasting, which is being developed for the Chief of Naval ...

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) is an international public repository for high-throughput microarray and next-generation sequence functional genomic data sets submitted by the research community. The resource supports archiving of raw data, processed data and metadata which are indexed, cross-linked and searchable. All data are freely available for download i...

Our work is settled in the context of the public administration domain, where data can come from different entities, can be produced, stored and delivered in different formats and can have different levels of quality. Hence, such a heterogeneity has to be addressed, while performing various data integration tasks. We report our experimental work on publishing some government linked open geo-met...