A Federated Spatial Database System (FSDBS) is the integration of multiple spatial data sources and the realisation of effective spatial data sharing. FSDBS environments are becoming increasingly popular as more and more spatial and non-spatial datasets are integrated, especially those across a number of independent organisations. However, in a FSDBS environment, database schemas are subject to...

Routing in delay and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) relies on intermediary nodes, called custodians, to deliver messages to destination. However, nodes usually differ significantly in terms of available resources: energy, buffer space, and bandwidth. Routing algorithms need to make the most efficient use of custodian resources while also making sure those in limited supply are not exhauste...

BACKGROUND The Department of Health in Western Australia identified access to, and daily consumption of recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables, as priority health determinants. The numerous factors that influence supply and consumption of fruit and vegetables indicated that a comprehensive approach would be required.A government and non-government sector steering group was set up to select...

Cost-benefit analysis is a prerequisite for making good business decisions. In the business environment, companies intend to make profit from maximizing information utility of published data while having an obligation to protect individual privacy. In this paper, we quantify the trade-off between privacy and data utility in health data publishing in terms of monetary value. We propose an analyt...

Current agriculture faces the challenge of doubling food production to meet the food needs of a population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century whilst maintaining soil and water quality and conserving biodiversity. These challenges are more overwhelming for the rural poor, who are the custodians of environmental resources and at the same time particularly vulnerable to environmental degra...

BACKGROUND Stigma affects all aspects of mental disorders, and is the most important risk factor for promoting mental health. The aim of this study was to explore strategies effective in reducing the stigma toward people with mental disorders in Iran. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted from 2013 to 2016. All participants were recruited by purposive sampling method. The majority of t...

Capitalist democracy in the West is predicated on the belief that Western European democracy is the only correct and just form, and that Western civilization represents the highest form of human social development. This belief is driven by a conviction that highlights the individual’s “right to freedom.” This concept of liberty originates in the Western overvalued idea that all goods and servic...

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...

This paper is a desk-review study and considers digital technologies for sustainable development: challenge of sustainability inclusivity. It takes glance at the interaction development, legal challenges development. Digital technological inclusion populace was based on mobile phones, which equally facilitate financial help in reducing poverty. have ample expanded opportunities businesses econo...

We consider the problem of the public release of statistical information about a population–explicitly accounting for the public-good properties of both data accuracy and privacy loss. We first consider the implications of adding the public-good component to recently published models of private data publication under differential privacy guarantees using a Vickery-Clark-Groves mechanism and a L...