New service concepts of sharing contexts with support for communication on wireless networks are beginning to emerge for mobile devices with diverse embedded sensors. In order to promote services based on sharing contexts in mobile devices, this paper introduces the MoCE (Mobile Context Explorer) architecture. MoCE was designed to support context-based services with context sharing on wireless ...

this research considers the recognition and evaluation of identity formation process in new towns, with special reference to hashtgerd new town in iran, located in some 65 kilometers distance on the west of tehran, the capital. the construction of hashtgerd new town and people settlement was started in more than 15 years ago. the concept of city identity, its divisions and elements, explanation...

P. Lloyd ([email protected]), Percy FitzPatrick Inst., DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, Univ. of Cape Town, P/Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa, and Biodiversity Assessment and Management Pty Ltd, PO Box 1376, Cleveland 4163, Australia. – F. Abadi, South African National Biodiversity Inst., P/Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa, and School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Univ. of Wit...

the aim of the paper is to survey factors productivity in small & medium scale manufactories located in toos industrial town. in order to achieve this purpose, production functions of different industrial groups are estimated on the base of cross-section data in 2005. then elasticity of factors production, average productivity, marginal productivity, labor intensive and capital intensive are de...

in this paper, we ask “can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” for this study we have mapped all the villages in orissa. the study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...