Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Geological maps are increasingly published and shared online, whereas tools and services supporting information retrieval and knowledge discovery are underdeveloped. In this study, we developed an ontology of geological time scale by using a RDF (Resource Description Framework) model to represent the ordinal hierarchical structure of the geological time scale and to encode collected annotations...

This paper considers the problem of planning collision-free motion of three disks in the plane. One of the three disks, the robot, can autonomously translate in the plane, the other two move only when in contact with the robot. This represents the abstract formulation of a manipulation planning problem. Despite the simplicity of the formulation, the decidability of the problem had remained unpr...

The regional engineering geological conditions and geological hazard evaluation is the important part of realizing the railway geological selection, However, the accuracy of the evaluation largely depends on the reliability of basic information and reasonable mathematical model. Remote sensing provides reliable geological information and accurately reflects the geological conditions along the r...

A wide range of methodologies and software applications have been developed to generate 3-Dimensional (3D) geological model data. One of the main open issues is the exchange of these heterogeneous data from different sources, which influences the sharing and integration of 3D geodata. It is also a necessity to take into consideration the semantics of 3D geological data to enable its full exchan...

Likelihood-based Imprecise Regression (LIR) is a recently introduced approach to regression with imprecise data. Here we consider a robust regression method derived from the general LIR approach and we establish an exact algorithm to determine the set-valued result of the LIR analysis in the special case of simple linear regression with interval data.

Three-dimensional (3D) geological models are important representations of the results of regional geological surveys. However, the process of constructing 3D geological models from two-dimensional (2D) geological elements remains difficult and is not necessarily robust. This paper proposes a method of migrating from 2D elements to 3D models. First, the geological interfaces were constructed usi...

This paper addresses the maintenance of discovered frequent patterns when a batch of transactions are removed from the original dataset. We conduct an in-depth investigation on how the frequent pattern space evolves under transaction removal updates using the concept of equivalence classes. Inspired by the evolution analysis, an effective and exact algorithm TRUM is proposed to maintain frequen...