extended abstract 1. introduction from about the 1950s, extraordinary growth of cities and increase of urban population have led to excessive growth of settlements in cities (muhallab taha, 2001(. this growth caused an unprecedented rise in land prices (zaheri & pour- mohammadi, 2006). land is an essential element in urban expansion and development (vander molen, 2002). therefore, quality and q...

In the past decades, Italian hygienic requirements for dwellings have been modified by multiple derogations. Aim of the present work is to analyse the derogations introduced at a national, regional, and local level. The most important derogations were related to the habitable use of semi-basements and garrets, and building restoration. The paper also describes the regulations regarding indemnit...

New information and communication technologies (ICT) promise an era of remarkable changes for society. In this paper, I propose to reflect on the processes underlying a national ICT initiative in Mexico aimed at improving foreign trade regulation – the Single Window for Foreign Trade. The case offers an example of the complexities of building ICT critical infrastructures in a given context. Usi...

attracting foreign investment is a technique to achieve economic development, which requires establishment of appropriate legal and administrative infrastructure. in addition, host countries may ignore their public interest and national security. therefore, they have to maintain a balance between economic development and protection of national security. the concern over the national security as...

3 We propose a method to build gene regulatory networks (GRN) capable of 4 representing time-delayed regulations. The gene expression data is repre5 sented in a linear model using a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) and a 6 skip-chain model using a hidden Markov model. The method therefore finds 7 both shortand long-term regulatory interactions. The algorithm was tested 8 on time-series data of th...