Recent research in the social sciences has identified situations which small changes way that information is provided to consumers can have large aggregate effects on behavior. This been promoted popular media areas of public health and wellness, but its application other not broadly studied. paper presents a simple model expresses effect providing commuters with carefully-curated regarding tra...

RxNav is a browser for RxNorm, the NLM repository of standard names for clinical drugs. RxNav displays links from clinical drugs, both branded and generic, to their active ingredients, drug components and related brand names. The current dataset (July 11, 2006) comprises 5,591 ingredients, 10,998 brand names, 13,913 clinical drug components, 17,788 clinical drugs, 13,850 branded drugs, 13,253 b...

Most translations are needed for technical documents in specific domains and often the domain knowledge available to the translator is crucial for the efficiency and quality of the translation task. Our project1 aims at the investigation of a MAT-paradigm where the human user is supported by linguistic as well as by subject information ([vHa90], [vHAn92]). The basic hypotheses of the approach a...

Sensing the state of the environment is an important source for context-aware applications. Several approaches exist to provide sensor information to mobile application nodes. As the extreme cases we have pure infrastructures and pure ad hoc networks. In order to allow sensor platforms to serve both of these approaches, we have designed a universal sensor platform and integrated it into an infr...

Abstract Strong earthquakes occur frequently with devastating effects on people and infrastructure. In cases of such catastrophic earthquakes, rescue all other civil protection services need available information about the earthquake itself consequences it has caused. addition to series traditional sensors systems used interpret their consequences, remote observation from space (EO) combined ge...