Land betterment capture revisited: A methodology for territorial plans

Betterment Recovery: A Financial Proposal For Sounder Land Use Planning

A Methodology for Scenario-Based Requirements Capture

Scenarios are an intuitive way for software project stakeholders to capture requirements, describe test cases and evaluate software architectures. Typically, however, coming up with a complete scenario specification is difficult. Basic (or nominal) scenarios are easy to write down, but more complex or less common (non-nominal) scenarios are harder to elicit. In particular, there is currently no...

A new methodology for measuring land fragmentation

(2013) A new methodology for measuring land fragmentation. Abstract The presence of land fragmentation implies that the existing land tenure structure is defective. It is a major problem in many regions because it restricts agricultural development and reduces the opportunities for sustainable rural development. Whilst policies to counter land fragmentation require reliable measurement indices,...

Cancer Cytogenetics: Methodology Revisited

The Philadelphia chromosome was the first genetic abnormality discovered in cancer (in 1960), and it was found to be consistently associated with CML. The description of the Philadelphia chromosome ushered in a new era in the field of cancer cytogenetics. Accumulating genetic data have been shown to be intimately associated with the diagnosis and prognosis of neoplasms; thus, karyotyping is now...

The Land Assembly Problem Revisited

As in the standard land assembly problem, a developer wants to buy two adjacent blocks of land belonging to two di¤erent owners. The value of the two blocks of land to the developer is greater than the sum of the individual values of the blocks for each owner. Unlike the land assembly literature, however, our focus is on the incentive that each lot owner has to delay the start of negotiations, ...