Advantages of urbanization such as access to clean water, health, and overall easier life in cities, as well as the disadvantages or its negative effects on environment cannot be ignored. Today, there are numerous environmental problems due to the reduction in ecologically valuable places within urban areas. Bringing nature to the cities appears to be essential to enhance urban environment and ...

logistic regression (lr) was used to model urban growth between the years 1987 and 2001 in gorgan city, north east of iran. three groups of variables including economic-social, land use and biophysical variables were used in the modeling practice. using covariance of the independent variables, distance to administrative and sporting centers plus distance to cities were removed. roc (relative op...

Many changes have been incorporated into the approach to multiple myeloma over the last few years, due to improvements in our understanding of the disease biology. New diagnostic and prognostic criteria from the International Myeloma Working Group have clarified the initial clinical approach to this disease. The prognostic impact of chromosomal abnormalities is now recognized, and the detection...

Todays enterprises are faced with the challenge of an ever changing environment, which they continuously have to adapt to. A commonly accepted means to support an enterprise in the transformation process and furthermore enhance the alignment between business and IT is enterprise architecture (EA) management, which provides a holistic perspective on the enterprise. In order to support an enterpr...

Collectively, landscape structure, fuel loading, and weather control wildland fires. Our objective was to examine the impacts of landscape structure, weather and fire-ignition location on fire spread using FARSITE. We simulated surface fires in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin, on five landscapes: a control and four harvested landscapes created using HARVEST by varying the amount (2% ...

At EDF, a leading energy company, process data produced in power stations are archived both to comply with legal archiving requirements and to perform various analysis applications. Such data consist of timestamped measurements, retrieved for the most part from process data acquisition systems. After archival, past and current values are used for various applications, including device monitorin...

Mauro Agnoletti: Historical research and landscape analysis. The case of Tuscany (Italy) Between 1999 and 2002 a research project entitled “Analysis and Management of Forest and Rural Landscapes” has been carried out for the Tuscan Regional Government. One of the goals of the study was to asses a method in order to make historical investigation a necessary tool in planning and management of lan...

Motivations for owning rural land are shifting from an agricultural-production orientation to a preference for natural and cultural amenities. Resultant changes in land management have significant implications for the type and distribution of landscape-level disturbances that affect the delivery of ecosystem services. We examined the relationship between motivations for owning land and the impl...