■ The wind in the airspace around an airport impacts both airport safety and operational efficiency. Knowledge of the wind helps controllers and automation systems merge streams of traffic; it is also important for the prediction of storm growth and decay, burn-off of fog and lifting of low ceilings, and wake vortex hazards. This knowledge is provided by the Integrated Terminal Weather System (...

This paper reports the results of some experiments conducted to measure the Internet congestion, viewed from a local perspective. A user-friendly graphical tool was developed to reflect the “local internet weather”. For a typical user this information is more relevant than the global characteristics, however, the existing tools to measure Internet traffic are not designed with the individual no...

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Due to quest for quality, researchers often prefer citing articles from journals possessing higher Impact Factor. Until now, Journal Impact Factor has been measured as a popularity index. i.e. only the number of citations of the journal articles determine the impact factor, be it any domain, regardless of the quantum of research progressed so far. However, the art of citing has gradually change...

Introduction Citation frequency has become a popular index for quality evaluation of academic publications, e.g. articles, journals or books. Traditional altmetrics researches pay less attention to book-level evaluation, and they do not make use of content information. In this paper, we present a novel method, reviewmetrics, namely altmetrics to evaluate academic books based on reviews. We comb...

A review of the present status of the global warming science is presented in this paper. The term global warming is now popularly used to refer to the recent reported increase in the mean surface temperature of the earth; this increase being attributed to increasing human activity and in particular to the increased concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) in...

This paper shows the general perceptions of Spanish university stakeholders in relation to the university’s annual reports and the adequacy and potential of intellectual capital reporting. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and sent to every member of the Social Councils of Spanish public universities. It was thought that these participants would provide a good example of the attitude of...

A set of 21 cases in which an isolated supercell merged with a squall line were identified and investigated using analyses from the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model, archived data from the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) network, and severe storm reports. This analysis revealed two primary environments associated with these mergers: a weak synoptic forcing, weak to moderate shea...

Communication systems have an important role to play in managing the safe and efficient operation of the National Airspace System (NAS). The users of the NAS, from the commercial transport aircraft to hobby airplanes can all benefit from the recent advances in digital communication technology especially as the capacity of the analog voice systems is surpassed by the growth in air traffic. One o...

[I The wind in the airspace around an airport impacts both airport safety and operational efficiency. Knowledge of the wind helps controllers and automation systems merge streams of traffic; it is also important for the prediction of storm growth and decay, burn-off of fog and lifting of low ceilings, and wake vortex: hazards. This knowledge is provided by the Integrated Terminal Weather System...