Culture boundaries in semantic web

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

A Web based geospatial application for disaster preparedness in Uganda

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Environmental Decision-making utilizing a Web GIS to Monitor Hazardous Industrial Emissions in the Valencian community of Spain

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Linked Data based Health Information Representation, Visualization and Retrieval System on the Semantic Web

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Web-application for gathering, analyzing, and processing health information about allergy data

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Semantic web approach for dealing with administrative boundary revisions: a case study of Dhaka City

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Web Processing Services for Forestry and Environmental Applications

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Dynamic adaptation of interaction models for stateful web services

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

QEAT: Pergunta, Responde e Interage. Projeto de Comunicação de Nutrição na Web

A nutrição e a alimentação. Dois conceitos tão pessoais quanto públicos, que geram discussão e abrem espaço a mitos e crenças. O interesse coletivo nestes assuntos é causa e consequência da grande quantidade de informação, por vezes pouco rigorosa, outras contraditória, disponível online. Impõe-se portanto não só a transmissão de informação fidedigna, que reflita o estado atual da ciência, mas também a criação de espaços de diálogo, capazes de suscitar sentido crítico, num contexto de interação e comunicação online. Contextualiza-se assim a relevância do projeto QEAT, uma plataforma de comunicação de ciência, assente numa matriz de Envolvimento Público da Ciência ou Public Engagement with Science (PES), na sua expressão em inglês. O QEAT pretende ser um espaço de referência online, que promove o diálogo ao serviço da informação sobre alimentação e nutrição. Uma plataforma onde há espaço para o esclarecimento, a discussão e a participação, reunindo especialistas e não especialistas na mesma missão de comunicar nutrição. O modelo eleito seguirá um formato de rede social de pergunta e resposta (SQ&A), aproveitando a interatividade e a transversalidade destes canais de comunicação, abrindo aos diferentes públicos a possibilidade de participar na plataforma com perguntas, ideias, conteúdos. Desta forma, as ciências da nutrição e alimentação serão o tópico dominante das conversas, abertas a todos os interessados, instigadas e moderadas pelos gestores da plataforma. O canal QEAT será alimentado por conteúdos coproduzidos por nutricionistas, cientistas e diferentes profissionais da comunicação, no âmbito do projeto, a par de conteúdos produzidos pelos utilizadores (user generated contents), sujeitos a uma votação, ou seja, um controlo de qualidade. Todos os contribuidores vão construindo a sua reputação de acordo com a validade dos conteúdos que produzem. Uma gestão de conteúdos que permite por um lado monitorizar a qualidade e o rigor da informação, mas também perceber os tópicos que interessam aos utilizadores, bem como as suas dúvidas. A implementação deste projeto procura criar um espaço de referência online capaz de funcionar como um repositório dinâmico de informação sobre nutrição; e fomentar uma relação bidirecional entre os diferentes públicos do projeto. Da persecução destes objetivos, espera-se que resultem novas ideias, conhecimentos e direções dos caminhos a tomar no sentido de uma comunicação responsável na área da nutrição.

An interactive web-based tool for breast reduction surgery simulation

In this work, we present a 3D web-based interactive tool for numerical modeling and simulation approach to breast reduction surgery simulation, to assist surgeons in planning all aspects related to breast reduction surgery before the actual procedure takes place, thereby avoiding unnecessary risks. In particular, it allows the modeling of the initial breast geometry, the definition of all aspects related to the surgery and the visualization of the post-surgery breast shape in a realistic environment.

Automatic eye blink detection using consumer web cameras

This research aims to advance blinking detection in the context of work activity. Rather than patients having to attend a clinic, blinking videos can be acquired in a work environment, and further automatically analyzed. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to perform the automatic detection of eye blink using consumer videos acquired with low-cost web cameras. This methodology includes the detection of the face and eyes of the recorded person, and then it analyzes the low-level features of the eye region to create a quantitative vector. Finally, this vector is classified into one of the two categories considered —open and closed eyes— by using machine learning algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology was demonstrated since it provides unbiased results with classification errors under 5%

Development of a data acquisition system to characterise sustainable energy technologies and to support Web-Based learning (DAQ-WBL)

Driven by concerns about rising energy costs, security of supply and climate change a new wave of Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET’s) have been embraced by the Irish consumer. Such systems as solar collectors, heat pumps and biomass boilers have become common due to government backed financial incentives and revisions of the building regulations. However, there is a deficit of knowledge and understanding of how these technologies operate and perform under Ireland’s maritime climate. This AQ-WBL project was designed to address both these needs by developing a Data Acquisition (DAQ) system to monitor the performance of such technologies and a web-based learning environment to disseminate performance characteristics and supplementary information about these systems. A DAQ system consisting of 108 sensors was developed as part of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology’s (GMIT’s) Centre for the Integration of Sustainable EnergyTechnologies (CiSET) in an effort to benchmark the performance of solar thermal collectors and Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP’s) under Irish maritime climate, research new methods of integrating these systems within the built environment and raise awareness of SET’s. It has operated reliably for over 2 years and has acquired over 25 million data points. Raising awareness of these SET’s is carried out through the dissemination of the performance data through an online learning environment. A learning environment was created to provide different user groups with a basic understanding of a SET’s with the support of performance data, through a novel 5 step learning process and two examples were developed for the solar thermal collectors and the weather station which can be viewed at http://www.kdp 1 .aquaculture.ie/index.aspx. This online learning environment has been demonstrated to and well received by different groups of GMIT’s undergraduate students and plans have been made to develop it further to support education, awareness, research and regional development.

Fifteen years SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: life science databases, tools and support.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) was created in 1998 as an institution to foster excellence in bioinformatics. It is renowned worldwide for its databases and software tools, such as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, PROSITE, SWISS-MODEL, STRING, etc, that are all accessible on ExPASy.org, SIB's Bioinformatics Resource Portal. This article provides an overview of the scientific and training resources SIB has consistently been offering to the life science community for more than 15 years.

SwissDock, a protein-small molecule docking web service based on EADock DSS.

Most life science processes involve, at the atomic scale, recognition between two molecules. The prediction of such interactions at the molecular level, by so-called docking software, is a non-trivial task. Docking programs have a wide range of applications ranging from protein engineering to drug design. This article presents SwissDock, a web server dedicated to the docking of small molecules on target proteins. It is based on the EADock DSS engine, combined with setup scripts for curating common problems and for preparing both the target protein and the ligand input files. An efficient Ajax/HTML interface was designed and implemented so that scientists can easily submit dockings and retrieve the predicted complexes. For automated docking tasks, a programmatic SOAP interface has been set up and template programs can be downloaded in Perl, Python and PHP. The web site also provides an access to a database of manually curated complexes, based on the Ligand Protein Database. A wiki and a forum are available to the community to promote interactions between users. The SwissDock web site is available online at http://www.swissdock.ch. We believe it constitutes a step toward generalizing the use of docking tools beyond the traditional molecular modeling community.

Aplicacions web per al treball col·laboratiu : disseny i prototipatge d'un sistema d'esdeveniments per a mòbils en el treball en grup

Projecte de fi de carrera del 2n cicle de la Eng. Informàtica, realitzat per Jose Roig Torres (01/2012). Aplicacions Web per Treball Col·laboratiu: Disseny i Prototipatge d'un sistema d'esdeveniments per mòbils en el treball en grup.