computer support for discussions in spatial planning

... the Internet TCA maintains information for finding educational resources distributed on the Internet It provides query and browsing mechanisms for exploring what is available Tools are included for ... collaborative knowledge building in computersupported classrooms ᭿ Meaning making Koschmann argued for reconceptualizing knowledge building as meaning making, drawing on theories of conversation ... Can computer networks bring people together in global knowledge-building communities and support the interaction of their ideas in ways that help to transform the opinions of individuals into...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:40

... to re-invent planning as a strategic future-oriented activity, taking into account the unknown, open up for new possibilities, towards a planning as becoming instead of planning as fixing (Hillier, ... accounts for the structure of the universe and for the Advances in Spatial Planning destiny of individual things, resides in the sun This fabled view sees a measure of pneuma in each thing on earth, ... book is divided into three main parts (Theoretical aspects of spatial planning, Quantitative and computer spatial planning methods and Practical applications of spatial planning) which cover...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 16:20

... frameworks in spatial statistics, increasing domain asymptotics and fixed domain asymptotics or called in ll asymptotics (Cressie, 1993) In increasing domain asymptotics, the distance between neighboring ... observation increases In fixed domain asymptotics, the number of observations increases in a given fixed and bounded domain so that the 1.1 Mat´rn Class e observations will be increasingly dense ... ∣𝑎(𝑥)∣ ≤ 𝐶2 ∣𝑏(𝑥)∣ for all possible 𝑥 𝑝 −→ a.s −→ 𝑑 −→ converges in probability converges almost sure converges in distribution CHAPTER Introduction Computer modeling is having a profound effect...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... person on request in order to maintain the transparency within the system All the above information providers require the information and resource maintainers who would maintain the information and ... requirements, Planning, Designing, Building Implementation and Maintenance • • • • • • Identifying Requirements: Discover what is needed Planning: Perform the planning of gathering information about ... structuring the course The prime responsibility of the maintainer is to maintain the proper information in a proper channel No wrong information or pseudo information should be available for the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... asked to indicate how distressed they were by feelings of hopelessness, lack of interest, worrying, feeling blue, feeling lonely, blaming themselves, feeling trapped, crying easily, having a poor ... (frequently) For each source of support, summary measures for each type of support (emotional, instrumental, and negative interaction) were created for the 1988 –1989 and 1991 time points by summing the ... resource in the informal support system Research on Aging, 1, 434 – 463 Carstensen, L L (1987) Age-related changes in social activity In L L Carstensen & B A Edelstein (Eds.), Handbook of clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... for interpreting the literal meaning of the user's response returned by the INTERPRETER into its intended meaning within the particular game considered A simple example consists of transformation ... the communicative intentions (obtaining specifications) reflects the decomposition of the task intentions (investing) There exist two types of metaplans: the metaplans for expanding the Agenda and ... Linguiatic,, pp 536-539, Bonn (FR Germany), 1986 Additional knowledge is contained in g a m e descriptions: a feature in- reactcomplements in- ezpretedin providing a set of game-specific rules for...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... database for land suitability evaluation in Thai Binh Province The main purpose of land use planning is to achieve sustainable development For that purpose, the land system data base can be used for ... Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology References [1] Aris Poniman, Nurwadjedi, Pago lumban-Tobing, Developing the national land resource database for supporting spatial land use planning, Indonesia, ... evaluation of Thai Binh Bar chart of land suitability for crop (on top) and for paddy (on bottom) 200 S3 for paddy 150 Percents S2 for paddy S1 for paddy 100 S3 for crop S2 for crop 50 S1 for crop Dong...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... materials with interesting results To begin with, some simplifying assumptions were made Phonetic data were treated as a linear string by simply ignoring their very real grouping properties Furthermore, ... languages in Lower California and around the Colorado River delta His list of around 600 words collected in Paipai was prepared for process- 74 ing Phonetic symbols were transliterated into strings in ... is long A change in the pattern-recognizing approach is being considered to segregate phones at particular positions in syllables, syllables in feet, and feet in contours The intermediate storage...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... feeling of living for the day The film concludes with 'the happiness we have is worth grasping - if only for a day or an hour'9 In spite of the increasing transformation of women and their role in ... struggle to maintain a family whilst working long hours, enforced rationing, coping without loved ones and the very real temptation of extra-marital affairs Whilst the Ministry of Information were ... British Film Institute, 1992), p.25 3.Angela Lant, 'Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), p.31 in The British Cinema Book,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... and therefore there is wide disparity among provinces in availability of services Provincial governments are responsible for setting policy, planning, monitoring and regulations Financing comes ... the forces that drive the weakening of social infrastructure along the lines seen in the UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income ... spending in support of government action to support prospects of gainful employment, job skills of the labour force, and the functioning of the labour force These include public Active spending (%)...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... to interpret spatial references to objects A fundamental requirement for processing situated dialogue is that linguistic meaning provides enough information to establish the visual grounding ... Eyler-Walker, and P.R Cohen 2000 Toward natural language interfaces for robotic agents: Grounding linguistic meaning in sensors In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ... point in its space the acceptability of the spatial relationship between the landmark and the target appearing at that point being described by the preposition Logan & Sadler examined various spatial...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... Ulli Waltinger, Alexander Mehler, and Gerhard Heyer 2008a Towards automatic content tagging: Enhanced web services in digital libraries using lexical chaining In 4th Int Conf on Web Information ... lemmatisation and stemming module is included for both languages As an unifying exchange format the component utilises TEI P5 (Burnard, 2007) In the following we outline the initial set of applications ... 2007 Representing and maintaining large corpora In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, Birmingham (UK) 3.5 Text Classification An easy to use text classifier (Waltinger et al.,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... RETAIN to determine if the same failure has occurred at another site If so, information stored in RETAIN identifies a tape containing a fix for the problem If the problem has never occurred before, ... errors Error checking is not usually done systematically The checking code has to be maintained as the software it checks is maintained Implementing and testing error checkers increases development ... variable containing the address of data was corrupted For example, a linked list is terminated by setting the last chain pointer to NIL when it should have been set to the head element in the list...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 13:32

... support for training has been exacerbated by a stop-start approach to training of new cadres: training for medical assistants was supported, then discontinued and may yet start again; training for ... health workforce include the lack of intersection between pre-service vocational and in- service training, poor coordination between partners providing support for training, and the need to increase ... door to reform the quota system This in turn paves the way for a more rational, integrated and needs-based approach to workforce planning in health Training Challenges in relation to training of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... routine practice for most institutes in Europe, although the use of MRI for prostate planning is increasingly widespread The main result of the current investigation is the quite large contouring ... posteriori” contouring by a single observer, as planning CT information will be collected in the coordinating centre and analyzed with dedicated research software (Vodca, Inc) Conclusion The ... 53:928-933 46 Fiorino C, Reni M, Bolognesi A, et al: Intra and inter-observer variability in contouring prostate and seminal vesicles: implication for conformal treatment planning Radiother Oncol...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... The finding of a major gene affecting fat androstenone level gives rise to new prospects for reducing incidence of boar taint by means of breeding The average level of individuals carrying the ... parameters for the two traits included in the selection index as well as segregation analysis results providing evidence for major genes influencing the same two traits Moreover, a linkage between ... control line (C) and a selected line (S) In the line S, replacement boars (one generation per year) were chosen among animals showing the highest values of a selection index including the following...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... facie support for an involvement of chromatin [29]? We observe a median cluster size of 13 for the approach of Spellman and Rubin [29] The chromatin domains reported by de Wit et al [37] contained ... examining the role of recombination and IGD in modulating rearrangement rates Recombination is associated with gene order rearrangement One force affecting gene order conservation is recombination ... size (P = 0.52 for orthologous landmark numbers; P = 0.4749 for breaks in A13 order) We therefore find no evidence in D melanogaster that genes in clusters defined by similarity in expression...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:24

... used for ongoing decision support training Focus group nurses offered to be simulated patients for other staff developing these skills The best timing for this type of training ranged from "in ... charting Inadequate decision support knowledge Inadequate skills in providing decision support Low confidence in ability to provide decision support Unclear program direction to provide decision support ... decision support services: (a) call centre nurses are likely to continue intervening by providing information only; (b) callers are likely to continue experiencing decisional conflict without making...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Competing interests Third, data classification and coding was conducted independently by two researchers and interpretations were compared for competing conclusions, thus improving the interpretative ... mail during the week prior to interview Written consent was obtained from all respondents prior to interview Interviews lasted from 20 minutes to one hour For logistic purposes, some interviews ... same region for obtaining the status of a referral centre Moreover, telehealth is believed to produce significant savings for remote hospitals and for the health care system For instance, teleconference...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... There is increasing interest in interventions that help patients become involved in decision-making about healthcare choices One set of such interventions are known as 'decision aids', interventions ... composed of chains of interactions in which a complex intervention (a new or modified way of thinking, acting upon, or organizing practice) is made coherent and enacted in a healthcare setting Implementation ... Defining boundaries between determinate and indeterminate decision-making ▪ Gaining competence ▪ Specification of roles and competencies ▪ Definition of standard operating...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21