Lancaster County, Pennsylvania uses urban growth areas (UGAs) to prevent the loss of its productive farmland to suburban sprawl. In contrast to other areas that have implemented UGAs, the county government cannot force its municipalities to adopt UGAs, since Pennsylvania reserves all land use regulatory power for its individual municipalities. This paper will explore whether UGAs can be institu...

Mr. Chairman and members of the committees: We are pleased to be here today to discuss alternative financing for surface transportation infrastructure projects. As Congress considers reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 2003, it does so in the face of a continuing need for the nation to invest in its surface transportation infrastructure and at a time whe...

Recently Raghavan [1] has proposed to measure the gravitational red shift of the electron anti-neutrino and the neutrino mixing angle θ13 using a tritium-metal matrix source and He-metal matrix target. The line width of the tritium source and capture cross-section in He are enhanced by a combined factor of ∼ 10 via the Mossbauer effect. We show how this technique can be used to directly measure...

The inflation model of Gaillard, Lyth and Murayama is revisited, with a systematic scan of the parameter space for dilaton stabilization during inflation. This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 and in part by the Nation...

There is a huge amount of documents in Thai government organizations. Although automatic document image retrieval systems in English have been proposed and developed, there are no specific system which is capable to retrieve relevant information from documents in Thai language. While matching words or optical character recognition (OCR) can be applied, segmentation of the words and characters i...

Nothing has significantly checked the growth of the tobacco industry since the introduction of smoking to Europe, and the industry has easily survived the 40 years since the first authoritative revelations about the health effects of smoking. Some explanations are offered and the tactics of the industry and the response of the UK Government are reviewed. The policies of British-American Tobacco...

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The ideas and findings in this report should not be construed as an official DoD position. It is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange. Permission to reproduce this document and to prepare derivative works from this document for internal use is granted, provided the copyright and \'No Warranty\' statements are included with all reproductions and derivative w...

In this paper, I summarize research in document layout analysis carried out over the last few years in our laboratory. Correct document layout analysis is a key step in document capture conversions into electronic formats, optical character recognition (OCR), information retrieval from scanned documents, appearance-based document retrieval, and reformatting of documents for on-screen display. W...