Global urbanization is a major force that causes alteration and loss of natural habitats. Urban ecosystems are strongly affected by humans and there is a gradient of decreasing human influence from city centers to natural habitats. To study ecological changes along this continuum, researchers introduced the urban-rural gradient approach. The responses of centipedes to an urbanization gradient (...

objective: the role and importance of urban green space in urban life and physical stability and effectiveness of the system returns to different urban ecological, economic and social, it is undeniable, as far as public green space per capita in cities and urban management planning program is considered one of the main discussion. urban green spaces should be one of the most essential factors t...

This paper presents a field experimental study of several participants’ evacuation behaviour in fire-induced smoke bidirectional six-lane, urban tunnel with natural ventilation. Ceiling openings vertical shafts are equipped as ventilation and provide large amount sunlight into the daytime, increasing illuminance assisting fire emergency. In this study, route choice, movement time, physical cond...

This study was aimed at assessment of sleep schedule, pre-sleep behavior, co-sleeping and parent's perception of sleep of school going children. METHOD Four schools each, from urban and rural area were included. Sleep patterns were assessed using the validated Hindi version of Childhood-Sleep-Habit-Questionnaire. Comparison was made between urban and rural group and between boys and girls. In...

Ecohydrology. 2017;10:e1813. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1813 Abstract The use of green infrastructure for reducing stormwater runoff is increasingly common. One under‐studied component of the green infrastructure network is the urban forest system. Trees can play an important role as the “first line of defense” for restoring more natural hydrologic regimes in urban watersheds by intercepting r...

as the collective settlement of the modern man, the city forms the physical background for the human life. the urban lifestyle involves a set of formal, multi dimensional relations, and the urban residents get in touch with the various components of this set in their everyday life. the process of the formation and transformation of the cities can affect the stages of the social identification o...

Traffic sign recognition is a difficult task if we aim at detecting and recognizing signs in images captured from unfavorable environments. Complex background, weather, shadow, and other lighting-related problems may make it difficult to detect and recognize signs in the rural as well as the urban areas. We employ discrete cosine transform and singular value decomposition for extracting feature...

Faunal responses to anthropogenic habitat modification represent an important aspect of global change. In Puerto Rico, two species of arboreal lizard, Anolis cristatellus and A. stratulus, are commonly encountered in urban areas, yet seem to use the urban habitat in different ways. In this study, we quantified differences in habitat use between these two species in an urban setting. For each sp...

In this paper we present an algorithm to build a road network map enriched with traffic rules such as one-way streets and forbidden turns, based on the interpretation of already detected and classified traffic signs. Such algorithm helps to automatize the elaboration of maps for commercial navigation systems. Our solution is based on simulating navigation along the road network, determining at ...

In this project we study selecting of robust method to detect and recognize stop signs in an urban area. To tackle this problem we tries three different method, and the experiment showed that the two of the tree methods are promising to continue working on. The first method was HAAR features combined with Decision Trees which didn’t work well in tests. The second approach was using HOG with log...