Imagine that you are driving on the highway at 70 mph and trying to figure out which lane should follow to exit in front. The precision of the current GPS cannot tell on which lane you are on, so the instruction given by the GPS is just as simple as ”keep right” resulting in the driver’s panic caused by searching from multiple signs. However, if we have a smart camera mounted inside the vehicle...

Although satellite navigation, mainly based on the U.S. GPS, plays an important role in positioning and navigation tasks and although there are efforts to establish new satellite-based navigation systems like the European Galileo, the reliability and availability of these systems cannot satisfy all requirements of today’s navigation. Therefore, the navigation system of the future will likely co...

With the availability of consumer GPS devices the amount of online location data publicly accessible are growing fast. Creating annotated photos or other resources with single location data is very common today. Moreover sharing of moving history data in the form of GPS tracks is becoming popular now. In this paper we analyze three leading services which provide GPS tracks for uploading, downlo...

Like other Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), medical practices can gain a great deal by adopting and using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Unlike other SMEs, little is known about General Practitioners’ (GPs) perceptions of the benefits of ICT use or about the differences between these perceptions by male and female GPs. This chapter reports a survey of these perceptions of...

Localization is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current location of the sensor nodes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation of GPS on each sensor node expensive and moreover GPS may not provide exact localization results in an indoor environment. Manually configuring location reference on each sensor node is also not possible for dense net...

The roles of different structures Limbic and frontal structures are best thought of as mediating declarative memory but what role do these different structures play in the process of memory? The hippocampus is divided into four ‘fields’ and one of these, CA1, receives inputs from all parts of the prefrontal cortex. Moreover, neurons in CA1 have a very high degree of interconnectivity. Memory fo...

BACKGROUND Feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve the quality of care in primary care settings. As part of a study conducted to explore the quality of preventive care, we investigated general practitioners' (GPs) views on the usefulness of feedback and their preferences regarding how feedback is provided. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 among randomly select...

BACKGROUND Due to clinical and non-clinical factors, considerable variation exists in the prescribing of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) by GPs based in the Netherlands. AIM To assess, in patients with RTIs in Dutch general practice: the prescribing rates of antibiotics; the relationship between GP characteristics and antibiotic prescribing; and the type of antibiotics pre...

BACKGROUND For older patients with polypharmacy, medication management is a process of careful deliberation that needs periodic adjustment based on treatment effects and changing conditions. Because of the heterogeneity of the patient group, and limited applicability of current guidelines, it is difficult for GPs to build up a routine. AIM To gain insight into GPs' medication management strat...

Since its introduction to civilian users in the early 1980's, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been playing an increasingly important role in high precision surveying and geodetic applications. Like traditional geodetic network adjustment, data processing for precise GPS static positioning is invariably performed using the least squares method. To employ the least squares method for GPS ...