Technological advances in position aware devices increase the availability of tracking data of everyday objects such as animals, vehicles, people or football players. We propose a geographic data mining approach to detect generic aggregation patterns such as flocking behaviour and convergence in geospatial lifeline data. Our approach considers the object's motion properties in an analytical spa...

teachers—lifelines, as it were—while explaining the need to adapt constantly since each learning situation is different and dynamic, dependent upon the specific student’s prior knowledge, level of engagement, and other factors often outside a teacher’s control. In foregrounding the importance of metacognition, Booth offers the foundations for maintaining a solid footing in the classroom while u...

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview of a computerized patient record using timelines. Problems, diagnoses, test results or medications can be represented as dots or horizontal lines. Zooming provides more details; line color and thic...

Technological advances of position aware devices lead to a wealth of data documenting the lifelines of GPS-tracked animals, people, or vehicles. The integration of knowledge discovery techniques in GIS is thus an important research field with respect to the emerging volumes of tracking data. The motivation of this research is to find patterns in the way such moving point objects (MPOs) move in ...

After earthquakes, continuing dialysis for patients with ESRD and patients suffering from crush syndrome is the serious problem. In this paper, we analyzed the failure of the provision of dialysis services observed in recent disasters and discussed how to prepare for disasters to continue dialysis therapy. Japan has frequently experienced devastating earthquakes. A lot of dialysis centers could...

The purpose of this research is to examine how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can be utilized to evaluate the attractiveness of mitigation for lifeline systems subject to earthquake ground motion. We propose a framework for the CBA that can be used in conjunction with work being completed by other researchers at MCEER (Shinozuka et al., 2000; Chang et al., 2000). With their development of fragilit...