The focus of this study is to thoroughly exploit the capability of very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery such as IKONOS and QuickBird for disaster mitigation. An efficient automated methodology that detects damage is implemented to derive the rich information available from VHR satellite imagery. Consequently, the detected results and the VHR satellite imagery are attractively presented ...

Moral distress is a serious problem in clinical nursing that affects personal and professional aspects of nurses’ lives including their job satisfaction. This study was conducted with the aim to determine the relationship between moral distress and job satisfaction in Iranian female nurses. This is a descriptive-analytical study in which the relationship between moral distress and job satisfact...

D ichlorisoeverninsäure (1) ist das prosthetische C hrom ophor der O rthosom ycin-A ntibiotika [1] Avilamycine A und C [2], Curam ycin [3], Everninomycine B, C und D [4] und Flam bam ycin [1] und findet als Futterm ittelzusatz V erw endung [5]. E ine schon von uns beschriebene Synthese von 1 bedarf der säulenchrom atographischen Reinigung der Zw i­ schenstufen und stellt daher nur kleinere M en...

In this paper we propose an assistive learning system for children with moderate intellectual and learning disabilities that supports collaboration, data exploration, communication and creativity. The system offers a wide range of tutorials on basic concepts of elementary sciences with some edutainment games and puzzles based on different tangible user interfaces TUIs. The system can enhance th...

Um im Wettbewerb zu bestehen, müssen Unternehmen ihre durch Anwendungssysteme (semi-) automatisierten Geschäftsprozesse flexibel ändern können. Hier sind u.a. Workflow-Management-Systeme (WfMSe) in Kombination mit Service-orientierten Architekturen (SOAn) einsetzbar. Das WfMS dient der Steuerung von Service-Aufrufen innerhalb von Geschäftsprozessen. Mittels Geschäftsprozess-Controlling werden P...

Electronic transactions are of increasing use due to its openness and continuous availability. The rapid growth of information and communication technologies has helped the expansion of these electronic transactions, however, issues related to security and trust are yet limiting its action space, mainly in what concerns business to business activity. This paper introduces an Electronic Institut...

Human motor activity is constrained by the rhythmicity of the 24 hours circadian cycle, including the usual 12-15 hours sleep-wake cycle. However, activity fluctuations also appear over a wide range of temporal scales, from days to a few seconds, resulting from the concatenation of a myriad of individual smaller motor events. Furthermore, individuals present different propensity to wakefulness ...

The pattern of electricity use in an individual domestic dwelling is highly dependent upon the activities of the occupants and their associated use of electrical appliances. This paper presents a high-resolution model of domestic electricity use, that is based upon a combination of patterns of active occupancy (i.e. when people are at home and awake), and daily activity profiles that characteri...

Under the umbrella of buzzwords such as “Business Activity Monitoring” (BAM) and “Business Process Intelligence” (BPI) both academic (e.g., EMiT, Little Thumb, InWoLvE, Process Miner, and MinSoN) and commercial tools (e.g., ARIS PPM, HP BPI, and ILOG JViews) have been developed. The goal of these tools is to extract knowledge from event logs (e.g., transaction logs in an ERP system or audit tra...