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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Data Infrastructure"”.
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Large-scale simulator for global data infrastructure optimization
… the last decade, Information Technology (IT) infrastructures have grown in scale and complexity. Any large company runs many enterprise applications that serve data to thousands of users which, in turn, consume this information in different locations concurrently and collaboratively. The …
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Advancing the Development and Utilization of Data Infrastructure for Smart Homes
… However, the scarcity of publicly available data remains a major hurdle in the domain, limiting people's capability of performing data analysis and their effectiveness in creating smart home automations. To mitigate this hurdle and its influence, our research explored three research …
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A new trajectory for spatial data infrastructure evolution in the developing world
Spatial Data is a key resource in the development of cities. There is a lot of socio-economic potential that is locked away in spatial data holdings and this potential is unlocked by making the datasets widely available for use. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have served this primary purpose; …
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Sensing Buildings: Environmental Impact of Sensor Technologies and Data Infrastructure in Buildings
… environmental impact, connected services such as data networks and optimizations that rely on large server infrastructures and cloud computing are not part of the scope. This thesis reveals the missing components of energy evaluations in “smart” devices within the walls, floors, windows, doors, …
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CommunAir: Building Low-cost Community Data Infrastructure with Sensors, Spreadsheets, and Open Datasets
… premature death. However, without appropriate data collection, reporting, and storage systems, it is difficult to both build community awareness and drive policy with air quality measurements alone. Furthermore, while investigations into poor air quality and its adverse effects have been …
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Constraints oriented approaches in advancing spatial data infrastructure: case of Southern African Customs Union
Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) concept has made in-roads in a number of economies across the world, but Africa, on average is reported as lagging behind in implementation. This status has been confirmed through a number of continental SDI Assessments done in Africa. Africa SDI Assessments …
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Science and the Structure of Social Experiment: A Socio-political Study of Climate Data Infrastructure
… from that era and from Popper, I conceive of infrastructures as politically organized social experiments which can be more or less scientific in character. These tools help me to address what I consider a problematic tendency in the literature on climate denial to claim that climate science …
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Building biodiversity data infrastructure for science and decision-making: information needs and information-seeking patterns in South Africa
Biodiversity information is critical to inform science-based policy development as well as to support responsible and accountable land-use planning and decision-making practices. The uptake of available information for these uses is, however, not yet quantified or understood. Here, the extent to …
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Developing a collaboration network framework to facilitate geospatial data access and exchange in the context of National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (NGDI)
National Geospatial Data Infrastructures (NGDIs) provide holistic frameworks with several technological components that address and overcome geospatial access and exchange issues. The components of any NGDI area include geospatial data, people, access networks, policies, and standards that aim to …
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Organisational and systems factors impacting on patient safety in acute care organisations: lessons from four multi-site research studies
… improvement. These include leadership stability; data infrastructure; measurement capability; standardisation of clinical systems; and creating an open and fair collective culture where poor safety is challenged. Conclusions and contribution to knowledge The research presented in the publications …
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An exposition of the nature of volunteered geographical information and its suitability for integration into spatial data infrastructures
… and on its applicability for use in a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to supplement official and commercial sources, particularly given the ease with which ordinary people can document their environment, experiences, perspectives and prejudices, share them widely and rapidly, and even query …
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Investigating methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of Integrated Spatial Information System (ISIS) implementation in the valuation department of the City of Cape Town
… as to facilitate the improved sharing of spatial data and to realise the full potential of spatial data infrastructure. In this process researchers and practitioners use appropriate methods, tools and frameworks to examine, analyse and evaluate the new implemented systems after its implementation. …
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Pathogen phylogenies for public health
… outbreaks of COVID-19. Third, I describe a data infrastructure we built to generate SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences from cases in Switzerland. Finally, I develop a phylogenetic and phylodynamic framework to perform a large-scale analysis on these data. In particular, I evaluate the effect of …
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MINCE: Dialect-Aware SQL Decomposition for Federated Query Execution
The increasing adoption of specialized database systems has led to the rise of heterogeneous data environments. While having multiple engines in a data infrastructure enables opportunities for workload optimization, SQL dialect incompatibility makes workload migration difficult. To address this …
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Geographic information system as a map and survey database for a selected area
… how the distribution and availability of spatial data could be improved. This should then minimize the duplication of data and ensure a better utilization of available data sources. All decisions that are made should be based on information, and especially decisions about our natural resources …
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Large Web Archive Collection Infrastructure and Services
… to standardize the preservation of web archive data. In addition to its preservation purpose, web archive data is also used as a source for research and for lost information recovery. However, the reuse of web archive data is inherently challenging because of the scale of data size and …
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From purification, spectroscopy, and microscopy of carbon dots to synthesis modeling and AI-assisted spectral data extraction
… physical modeling, and AI-assisted data curation. Part A develops and applies rigorous purification and fractionation to disentangle bottom-up products of CD synthesis from confounding small molecules; it then combines ensemble spectroscopy with single-particle fluorescence (Eric …
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Inside the App Bureaucracy: The Use of Smartphone Apps in Public Service Delivery Organizations in Pakistan
… implementation and continuing to use of their data among multiple levels of the bureaucracy. Using Zuboff’s concept of informating and literature on accountability and performance in government organizations, I look at how design, implementation and use of smartphone monitoring apps and their …
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Community Development Through Career And Technical Education In The U.S. Education System For A Higher American Standard Of Living
… of the U.S. public education system.</p> <p>The data from the logic models of 9 award winning school CTE programs showed commonalities that less successful programs could strive for to have better results, and improving the potential of their students community development. The overall data of …
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Innovating Government the Open Way: Modeling the Open Data Ecosystem
… around the world are releasing open data with the aim of stimulating innovation, driving economic development, and advancing social good. Despite significant investment in data infrastructure and technology, many open data initiatives struggle to effectively engage stakeholders or …
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