a Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China b Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA c State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal Uni...

Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and mobile location based services. To support such applications, methods for “spatially-aware” information retrieval that do not only consider the thematic, but also the spatial relevance of information items are needed. In ad...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

The northern part of the Slanské Vrchy Mountains, in Slovakia, within territory Dubnik Opal Mines, is considered to be historical source opal, including opal known Romans. precious mineralization originating from post-magmatic hydrothermal fluids based on its values should recognized as an area global importance. Geological processes that are connected Neogene volcanic activity took place Mines...