Background: Poisoning incidents, in both children and adolescents, are known to occur in New Zealand but little is known about the agents implicated.   Methods: All the calls received over the ten years between 2000 and 2009, by the National Poison Centre in New Zealand, were retrospectively reviewed. Calls related to cases involving those less than 19 years were included. The data were analy...

Virtual teams, enabled by information technology, represent a new organizational form that has the potential to change the workplace and provide organizations with increased levels of flexibility and responsiveness. A gap exists in the current information systems literature. Previous studies seem to implicitly assume that virtual teams will be self-directed—i.e., that managerial control mechani...

Fernando G.S.L. Brandão, 2 Michal Horodecki, 4 Jonathan Oppenheim, Joseph M. Renes, 7 and Robert W. Spekkens Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland Nati...

Earthquake Administration, Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. Environmental Education Media Project, Beijing 100025, China. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Pyongyang International Infor...

— The student generation nowadays is considered as the Net Generation who grow up in the age of Internet and mobile technology and prefer bringing technological application into their life. The Learning Resource Center – an academic information center-takes the initiative in developing a collaborative network with the students' participation for delivering information of natural disasters and c...

Most studies of spatial colocation patterns of crime and land-use features in geographical information science and environmental criminology employ global measures, potentially obscuring spatial inhomogeneity. This study investigated the relationships of three types of crime with 22 types of land-use in Wuhan, China. First, global colocation patterns were examined. Then, local colocation patter...

Abstract: Here city logistics terminal is defined as the facility consisting of warehouse center, marketing center, freight detaching center, distributing center and the information center. It is a link of freight transport between transport terminal such as port, railway freight station and highway entrance and the retailing facilities. The purpose of this study is to optimize the size and spa...

In the paper we present the method of automatic recognition and annotation of proper names which occur in dialogs gathered at the Warsaw city transportation information center. We describe different types of proper names and how people use them in dialogs. We present rules of automatic recognition and lemmatization of proper names in the transportation domain.