Increasing Urbanization and Industrialization is resulting in accelerating the growth of existing urban centers and causing faster rate of spatial Sprawl. Because of Sprawl of Urban centers, the increase of Population in hazardous areas and large-scale land conversion are matters growing concern. In particular urbanization in developing countries has produced large concentration of urban squatt...

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly’. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let...

On 9 April 2013, an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hit southwestern Iran near the city of Khvormuj and the towns of Kaki and Shonbeh in Bushehr province. The official disaster mitigation committee took immediate actions to coordinate rescue teams equipped with 24-hour medical air assistance. Overall, 160 victims were transferred to and treated in the Khvormuj hospital, while 139 survivors were tra...

The city of Sarajevo has evolved over many centuries into a major multicultural center in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Growing from ancient origins, it developed the vibrancy of a Middle Eastern city but was also enriched by an ongoing process of intercultural dialogue between old-world civilizations and neighboring European cultures. Over half a millennium, while involved in this ...

We study the factorization into irreducibles of iterates of a quadratic polynomial f over a finite field. We call f settled when the factorization of its nth iterate for large n is dominated by “stable” polynomials, namely those that are irreducible under post-composition by any iterate of f . We prove that stable polynomials may be detected by their action on the critical orbit of f , and that...