Maternal complications and poor perinatal outcome are highly associated with nonutilisation of antenatal and delivery care services and poor socioeconomic conditions of the patient. It is essential that all pregnant women have access to high quality obstetric care throughout their pregnancies. Present longitudinal study was carried out to compare utilization of maternal and child health care se...

The paper discusses the benefits of specific user’s oriented tools in urban planning processes, throughout the applications of an original system devised to define the localisation of urban services based on traffic distribution. Operative examples concern the Italian city of Pavia. The system ULISSE (Urban Location Interactive System for SErvices), created by the author, uses a static model of...

“Urban Pixels” are wireless, solar-powered lighting units for cities that blur the boundary between digital display technology and traditional urban lighting. By combining a renewable energy source with RF communication it is possible to achieve a self-sustaining, distributed display network that can be attached to any building surface and reconfigured with ease. Depending on their configuratio...

Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is a growth management policy that designates specific areas where should be concentrated in order to avoid urban sprawl. The objective of such boundary protect agricultural land, open spaces and the natural environment, as well use existing infrastructure public services more efficiently. Due inherent heterogeneity complexity settlements, UGBs Germany are currently ...

The recent technological developments in communication networks have results into a broad range of networks, e.g.,Wi-Fi, Mobile ad-hoc networks(MANET), 3G and other cellular networks, wireless sensor networks, etc. It is envisioned that such diverse networks must cooperate with each other to form cooperative urban networks, for the sake of making use of all the services and resources. Such inte...