Housing prices are influenced by extrinsic and intrinsic factors. This study aims to highlight the economic impact of perceived landscape on single-family houses in a Spanish Mediterranean urban area (Marbella). Considering an important added value real estate markets, this also explores elements that contribute most housing. A particularly positive influence mixed views (urban scrub) sea is de...

As a consequence of economic globalisation, the Western Balkans has been experiencing massive boom in building houses. In rural and mountain parts former Yugoslavia, some least expected locations, often areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, many imposing houses have constructed. These are bigger more extravagant than their models western European suburbs built largely on basis remittances from ...

The traditional architectural methods used in the historical cities of Iran provide useful information on various fields related to architecture and urban planning. Of particular interest are the techniques used for designing open and closed spaces in houses located in the hot and humid climate zone. The proportions observed for the courtyard in such houses have a great role in determining the ...

We designed a web server for the analysis of biosynthetic capacities of metabolic networks. The implementation is based on the network expansion algorithm and the concept of scopes. For a given network and predefined external resources, called the seed metabolites, the scope is defined as the set of products which the network is in principle able to produce. Through the web interface the user c...

The economic production and the interactive rendering of complete reconstructions of populated urban environments are technically difficult tasks. Specialized modelling tools, which exploit knowledge of the types of object being modelled by working in the application domain, can be used to create appealing virtual reconstructions quickly. At the same time, the structural information from the mo...

Autonomous flight in confined or cluttered environments such as houses or urban canyons requires high manoeuvrability, fast mapping from sensors to actuators and very limited overall system weight. Although flying animals are well capable of coping with such situations, roboticists still have difficulties at reproducing such capabilities. This paper describes how we took inspiration from flying...

Urban authorities are continuously drawing up policies to promote cycling among commuters. However, these initiatives are counterproductive for the targeted objectives because they increase opportunities for bicycle theft. This paper explores Inner London as a case study to address place-specific risk factors for bicycle theft at the street-segment level while controlling for seasonal variation...

This paper aims to put forward a seamless mosaic method of UAV image for dense urban area, which can effectively avoid seam-line pass through the edge of the building, so as to eliminate the ghosting, dislocation and seam in the image mosaic process. Firstly, the radiation error of UAV image are corrected by Wallis algorithm, and extract the corresponding points from the adjacent images by SIFT...