Urban expansion and loss of primarily agricultural land are two the challenges facing Jordan. Located in most productive area Jordan, Greater Irbid Municipality (GIM) uncontrolled urban growth has posed a grand challenge both sustaining its prime croplands developing comprehensive planning strategies. This study investigated for GIM from 1972–2050 denoted negative consequences amalgamation proc...

Urban growth models have been used for decades to forecast urban development in metropolitan areas. Since the 1990s cellular automata, with simple computational rules and an explicitly spatial architecture, have been heavily utilized in this endeavor. One such cellularautomata-based model, SLEUTH, has been successfully applied around the world to better understand and forecast not only urban gr...

This study seeks to benefit from a medical science-based implication for urban and landscape planning in the Gorgan Township area, a highly developing region in northeastern Iran. Based on growth stages and patterns of a malignant cancer tumor inside a human's body, a sustainable, realistic and practical urban growth pattern is introduced applying land suitability analysis, SLEUTH urban growth ...

Software documentation represents a critical resource to the successful functioning of many enterprises. However, because it is static, documentation often fails to meet the needs of the many diverse users who are required to consult it on a re gular basis in the course of their daily work. Software documentation is a rich resource that has not been fully exploited. Treatment of software docume...

An important ingredient in understanding such sentences is resolving the question of: level in/of what? protection from what? what sort of documents? danger from what? Each of these is an example coming from novels, television commercials, and news reports. In the first instance, it is from a commercial for a brand of computers. In the commercial, which is pushing the most recent version of tha...

In this paper, subtractive clustering method is combined with least squares estimation algorithms to pre-identify a type-1 Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy model from input/output data. Then the type-2 fuzzy theory is used to expand the type-1 model to a type-2 model. A sensitivity analysis is used to ascertain how a type-1 TSK model output depends upon the pre-initialized parameters and determin...

250 words) A single exposure to menthol can, depending on concentration, enhance both cool sensations and encourage body heat storage. This study tested whether there is an habituation in either response after repeated-daily exposures. Twenty-two participants were assigned to one of three spray groups: Control (CON; n=6), 0.05% l-menthol (M0.05%; n=8), 0.2% lmenthol (M0.2%; n=8). On Monday (20°...

Hybrid dysprosium-doped borate glassy samples [B-Gly/Dy]HDG (Borate Glass/Dysprosium)Hybrid Doped Glass were prepared in this study via the melt-quenching method. Its linear/nonlinear optical, photoluminescence, hardness indentation, and micro-creep properties analyzed. The amorphous structure for all was confirmed from XRD patterns. In addition, density functional theory (DFT), optimized by TD...

For more than a decade, the European Union recognizes soil as a common good and considers it as a finite resource of inestimable value. The European Union defines it as the “upper layer of earth’s crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms”. Despite such definitions, usually, planning choices do not take into account the need to reduce soil consumption t...