studies relating form and functions of cities indicate sprawl as an intriguing research issue, especially for certain typologies of cities. although with inherent differences on a local scale, mediterranean cities offer a kaleidoscopic overview of sprawl morphologies that require dedicated monitoring tools. the present study provides an original assessment of recent urbanization processes in th...

STUDY DESIGN This was a 23-year retrospective study of 3436 consecutive pediatric orthopedic spinal surgery patients between 1995 and 2008. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effectiveness of multimodality electrophysiologic monitoring in reducing the incidence of iatrogenic neurologic deficit in a pediatric spinal surgery population. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The elective nature of many pediatr...

The detection of ground deformation phenomena exhibiting a time non-uniform behavior by means of the Permanent Scatterers technique is addressed in this presentation. Simple but effective models are discussed showing significant results obtained.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the combination of muscle motor evoked potentials (mMEPs) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) measured during spinal surgery can predict immediate and permanent postoperative motor deficits. METHODS mMEP and SEP was monitored in patients undergoing spinal surgery between November 2012 and July 2014. mMEPs were elicited by a train of transcranial electrical...

In the Republic of Croatia, according to the Air Protection Act, air pollution assessment is obligatory on the whole State territory. For individual regions and populated areas in the State a network has been established for permanent air quality monitoring. The State network consists of stations for measuring background pollution, regional and cross-border remote transfer and measurements as p...

Since 2008 the main geodetic activities at the national level in Poland concentrated on maintenance of the national gravity control, gravity survey for geodynamic research, continuing operational work of permanent IGS/EPN permanent GNSS stations, conducting GPS data processing on the regular basis at the WUT and MUT Local Analysis Centres, activity within the EUREF-IP Project, works towards mon...

In this paper we present a new approach to model-based monitoring and diagnosis of dynamic systems. We extend related research work which concentrates either on monitoring (i .e . fault detection) or on diagnosis (i .e . fault localization) and therefore misses important aspects of effective and efficient troubleshooting . The presented DIAMON algorithm) uses hierarchical models to monitor and ...