The construction of High-Rise Buildings (HRBs) first started in the 19th century, as a sort vertical urban sustainable development approach trying to minimize environmental footprint impact. Although, debates regarding HRBs' pros and cons, this era has witnessed huge boost HRB all over world. HRBs have transformed into an ego situation where countries not only developed ones but also...

BACKGROUND Land use and land cover change occurring in tropical forest landscapes contributes substantially to carbon emissions. Better insights into the spatial variation of aboveground biomass is therefore needed. By means of multiple statistical tests, including geographically weighted regression, we analysed the effects of eight variables on the regional spatial variation of aboveground bio...

This paper investigates various processor management techniques for improving the performance of mesh-connected multiprocessors. Three diierent techniques are analyzed. First, we use the smallest job rst (SJF) policy to improve the spatial parallelism in a mesh. Next, a policy called multitasking and multi-programming (M 2) is introduced. The M 2 scheme allows multiprogramming of jobs on variou...

Surveying programs of study at institutions higher learning throughout the world reveals that one natural disciplinary coupling is statistics and operations research, although these two specific disciplines currently lack an active synergistic research interface. Similarly, development spatial optimization has occurred in parallel nearly isolation. This paper seeks to alter this situation by in...

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Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting for individual cities is confounded by spatial scale and boundary effects that impact the allocation of regional material and energy flows. This paper develops a demand-centered, hybrid life-cycle-based methodology for conducting city-scale GHG inventories that incorporates (1) spatial allocation of surface and airline travel across colocated cities in larger met...