This paper draws together two traditionally distinct discourses that have dominated debate about urban policy responses to economic restructuring, de-industrialisation, major plant closures and the rise of the service and knowledge-based economy over the past 20 years. It investigates the case of Birmingham, where the policy drive of city centre regeneration, flagship development and the re-mak...

BACKGROUND The crucial role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) in stress-related homeostasis suggests dysregulated HPA involvement in the pathogenesis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet most studies examining linkages between HPA axis measures and PTSD have yielded null findings. One untested explanation for this inconsistency is a failure to account for simultaneous ad...

Support Vector Regression (SVR) is a kernel based regression method capable of implementing a variety of regularisation techniques. Implementation of SVR usually follows a dual optimisation technique which includes Vapnik's -insensitive zone. The number of terms in the resulting SVR approximation function is dependent on the size of this zone, but improving sparsity by increasing the size of th...

‎we study dual integral equations which appear in formulation of the‎ ‎potential distribution of an electrified plate with mixed boundary‎ ‎conditions‎. ‎these equations will be converted to a system of‎ ‎singular integral equations with cauchy type kernels‎. ‎using‎ ‎chebyshev polynomials‎, ‎we propose a method to approximate the‎ ‎solution of cauchy type singular integral equation which will ...

This work is carried out to investigate combustion characteristics of a dual fuel (diesel-gas) engine at part loads, using a quasi-dimensional multi zone combustion model (MZCM) for the combustion of diesel fuel and a single zone model with detailed chemical kinetics for the combustion of natural gas fuel. Chemical kinetic mechanisms consist of 184 reactions with 50 species. This combustion mod...

This paper investigates the Stackelberg equilibrium for pricing and ordering decisions in a dominant retailer dual-channel supply chain. In a dual-channel sales network, the products are sold through both a traditional, physical retailer and a direct Internet channel. It is assumed that the retailer is the leader and the powerful member of the supply chain has the market power and acts as a lea...

this paper presents a self-tuning pid (proportional and integral and derivative) controller for regulating terminal voltage synchronous generators. in order to modify the system reponse and to overcome the difficulties of self tuning controllers, a dual rate sampling control system was used. system results demonstrated usfulness of the proposed regulator. the designed controller is simple and c...

In this paper, a dual system consisting of two 5 DOF (RRRRR) robot manipulators is considered as a cooperative robotic system used to manipulate a rigid payload on a desired trajectory between two desired initial and end positions/orientations. The forward and inverse kinematic problems are first solved for the dual arm system. Then, dynamics of the system and the relations between forces/momen...

Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) is an emerging seismic load-resistant system that, compared to other systems, enjoys the advantages of stable ductile behavior, fewer detailing requirements, rapid constructability, and economy. American seismic provisions decree that a SPSW should be designed as a moment frame with a web infill plate. Specifically, in case of buildings taller than 160 ft, it decre...