to deal with the future data. In particular, the problem of index update has not been addressed with efficient methods. This paper proposes a novel spatio-temporal index based on PMR quadtree, which is called Future Trajectory Quadtree (FT-Quadtree). FT-Quadtree adopts a trajectory segment shared

session interactively despite being at separate locales. Other extensions include Multalign Viewer, for showing multiple sequence alignments and associated structures; ViewDock, for screening docked ligand orientations; Movie, for replaying molecular dynamics trajectories; and Volume Viewer, for display

-fic. A simulation-based method based on graphs of cel-lular automata is proposed to predict future trajectories. Our technique strongly differs from the linear prediction method, which has low prediction accuracy and requires frequent updates when applied to real traffic with veloc-ity changes

Abstract Advances in wireless sensor networks and positioning technologies enable new applications monitor-ing moving objects. Some of these applications, such as traffic management, require the possibility to query the future trajectories of the objects. In this paper, we propose an original data

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Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have been decreasing in Iceland since the 1980s, largely reflecting improvements in cardiovascular risk factors. The purpose of this study was to predict future CHD mortality in Iceland based on potential risk factor trends. Methods

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The monitoring and control of any dynamic system depends crucially on the ability to reason about its current status and its future trajectory. In the case of a stochastic system, these tasks typically involve the use of a belief state—a probability distribution over the state of the process at a

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“Ram lala hum jayenge, mandir wahi banayenge. ” 1 (We shall march to the Ram Janmabhoomi [the birth place of Lord Ram in Ayodhya] and build a temple there.) In 1992, Ayodhya, a city in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, clenched in communal horror as Hindu fundamentalists, proclaiming to be disciples of Ram ‒ one of Hinduism’s most prominent deities, marched in large numbers towards it, chanting the above slogan, with the aim to build a temple (mandir) and simultaneously destroy a mosque (masjid). This was India’s very own critical rupture ‒ one that would push it into a nation-wide uproar of religious controversy and riots not just in the coming months but for many years to follow, severely wounding the carefully fabricated ideal of Indian secularism (Morey and Tickell 2005: ix). What could be so tumultuous, one may ask, about constructing a temple in a city which was not very famous for its commerce, economic standing and political significance, “a place with no resonances of colonial