The design of an Image Bank

Image Banks, which are collections of images with associated data and captions, are a valuable teaching tool for Astronomy courses at the Open University. Until now web pages have been created for each image and its associated information. This paper examines how a database, front-ended by a multimedia authoring tool, can provide a much more flexible and maintainable architecture for producing Image Banks. Accessibility issues are discussed

Making Accessibility Data Accessible – a Challenge

The Norwegian mapping authority has been carrying out a project on mapping accessibility following a national standard since 2009. In the beginning, the mapping was organized and carried out by the Norwegian Mapping Authority. This resulted in the creation of a good basic dataset for many Norwegian districts and bigger district-centers and enabled us to develop a national standard. However, it also lead to that the districts often did not feel any responsibility or ownership of the dataset and therefore did not use it in the scope that was intended. As a result, the mapping responsibility was given to the districts in 2015. To kick-start the project, the districts could apply for funding that enabled them to buy the necessary equipment, take part in courses in methodology and cover some expenses for human resources. A further milestone is the development of different possibilities to access and use the data. The goal is to offer as many access ways as possible while taking existing work routines and software use within the districts into consideration. This is an ongoing project and while some access possibilities are already in place and working others are still under development and testing

THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT IN EUROPEAN TOURISM FLOWS

This study aims at investigating the multiple and complex relationships between transport and tourism by various methods. In this paper, spatial interaction model and the shift-share analysis are used in different approaches. Factors of the relationship between the transport distance and tourism intensity will be detected and the connections between the accessibility of European regions and their tourism will be analysed. One of the major questions of our study is if there is any relationship between transport and tourism at European regional level (NUTS2); and if so, is there any kind of regularity in the relationship, as Bull (1994) states in his study. Finally, we examined whether there are any differences in this relationship at the level of the European regions

A checklist for inclusive assessment: getting started with accessibility

This paper is aimed both at teaching staff directly involved in creating assessments and those working with either the front end or back end of computer-assisted assessment software packages. It sets out the rationale for making computer-assisted assessments more inclusive and provides a 25-point checklist as a ‘getting started’ guide towards achieving this

Modelování dopravní dostupnosti obcí České republiky

For modelling and assessment of traffic accessibility and serviceability in the meaning of creation a coherent system a lot of methods is applied that use geoinformation systems such as e.g. analyses of results of Census of Population, Housholds and Flats (CPHF), network analyses, analyses of timetables, applications of gravity-operated models, traffic inquiries, field surveys, records of ticket sales etc. Since 2006 VSB-TU Ostrava has prepared a database of traffic connections for needs of the Integrated information portal of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ( MoLSA) of the Czech republic and further activities of MoLSA and EO. Today the database involves records of traffic connections between individual municipalities of the Czech republic through the use of public transport for periods suitable for current commutation. Connections are chosen based on several criteria from the list of connections searched out by the Timetables application of the CHAPS spol. s.r.o. company. The database is used for searching job vacancies accessible by public transport from the place of residence on an information portal and also from agents at employment offices, the next utilization is e.g. in the area of assessment of investment projects in a department of labour market analyses. Over the years the database was subject to many changes. Both in searching method and volume of data to be processed. A goal of this contribution is to do a brief summarization of the database development over the years, its utilization in modelling traffic accessibility as well as future prospects.Pro modelování a hodnocení dopravní dostupnosti a obslužnosti, ve smyslu tvorby uceleného systému, se používá mnoho metod využívající geografické informační systémy, jako např. analýzy výsledků ze Sčítání lidu, domu a bytů (SLDB), síťové analýzy, analýzy jízdních řádů, aplikace gravitačních modelů, dopravní ankety, terénní průzkumy, evidence prodeje jízdenek atd.. Od roku 2006 připravuje VŠB-TU Ostrava databázi dopravních spojení pro potřeby Integrovaného informačního portálu Ministerstva práce a sociálních věcí (MPSV) ČR a další činnosti MPSV a Úřadů práce. Databáze v současnosti obsahuje záznamy o dopravních spojeních mezi jednotlivými obcemi ČR s využitím veřejné linkové dopravy na doby vhodné pro běžné dojíždění do zaměstnání. Spojení jsou vybrána na základě několika kritérií ze seznamu spojení vyhledaných Jízdními řády společnosti CHAPS spol. s.r.o.. Databáze je využita k vyhledávání volných míst dostupných veřejnou dopravou z místa bydliště na informačním portálu i u zprostředkovatelů na úřadech práce, další využití je pro oddělení analýz trhu práce např. při posuzování investičních záměrů. V průběhu let dostála tato databáze mnoha změn. Jak při způsobu vyhledávání tak pro objem dat pro zpracování. Tento příspěvek si klade za cíl udělat krátkou sumarizaci vývoje této databáze v průběhu let, její použití při modelování dopravní dostupnosti a rovněž výhledy do budoucna

Muscle and liver transcriptome characterization and genetic marker discovery in the farmed meagre, Argyrosomus regius

Meagre (Argyrosomus regius), a teleost fish of the family Sciaenidae, is part of a group of marine fish species considered new for Mediterranean aquaculture representing the larger fish cultured in the region. Meagre aquaculture started ~ 25 years ago in West Mediterranean, and the supply of juveniles has been dominated by few hatcheries. This fact has raised concerns on possible inbreeding, urging the need for genetic information on the species and for an assessment of the polymorphisms found in the genome. To that end we characterized the muscle and liver transcriptome of a pool of meagre individuals, from different families and phenotypic size, to obtain a backbone that can support future studies regarding physiology, immunology and genetics of the species. The assembled transcripts were assigned to a wide range of biological processes including growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, stress and behavior. Then, to infer its genetic diversity and provide a catalogue of markers for future use, we scanned the reconstructed transcripts for polymorphic genetic markers. Our search revealed a total of 42,933 high quality SNP and 20,581 STR markers. We found a relatively low rate of polymorphism in the transcriptome that may indicate that inbreeding has taken place. This study has led to a catalogue of genetic markers at the expressed part of the genome and has set the ground for understanding growth and other traits of interest in meagre.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Mapping the Land-Use Suitability for Urban Sprawl Using Remote Sensing and GIS Under Different Scenarios

Urbanization is one of the important issues in fast developing countries, such as China, Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa. Therefore, sustainable urbanization strategies come into question while designing the cities. In this point, land-use suitability mapping for urban areas is of importance. Spatial information sciences, such as geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing are applied widely for mapping land-use suitability. In this study, Van City, which is the most crowded city in eastern Turkey, was evaluated by applying three different scenarios called ecological, economic, and sustainable. The multi-criteria evaluation technique was used in GIS environment in the mapping stage. Distance from roads, distance from urban boundary, hillshade, slope, elevation, land-use cover, and land-use ability factors were used as inputs in the analysis stage. The weights of each input factor were calculated according to urban change dynamics between 2002 and 2015. As a result of the study, the weighting approach using the natural change dynamics of Van City has a great potential to define objective weights. In addition, Van City was developed orderly on agricultural lands and grasslands, and it was not a sustainable development for the region because the main income is still agriculture and animal production, so a new strategy was designed in a sustainable scenario to prevent agriculture and grassland area loss in a mutual benefit between nature and human

Lightly supervised acquisition of named entities and linguistic patterns for multilingual text mining

Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) is an important component of applications like Opinion Tracking, Information Extraction, or Question Answering. When these applications require to work in several languages, NERC becomes a bottleneck because its development requires language-specific tools and resources like lists of names or annotated corpora. This paper presents a lightly supervised system that acquires lists of names and linguistic patterns from large raw text collections in western languages and starting with only a few seeds per class selected by a human expert. Experiments have been carried out with English and Spanish news collections and with the Spanish Wikipedia. Evaluation of NE classification on standard datasets shows that NE lists achieve high precision and reveals that contextual patterns increase recall significantly. Therefore, it would be helpful for applications where annotated NERC data are not available such as those that have to deal with several western languages or information from different domains.This researchwork has been supported by the Regional Government of Madrid under the Research Network MA2VICMR (S2009/TIC-1542), by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the project MULTIMEDICA (TIN2010-20644-C03-01) and by the Spanish Center for Industry Technological Development (CDTI, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade), through the BUSCAMEDIA Project (CEN-20091026)