It is well established that sea surface temperature (SST) plays a significant role in the hydrologic cycle in which precipitation is the most important part. In this study, the influence of SST on Indian subdivisional monthly rainfall is investigated. Both spatial and temporal influences are investigated. The most influencing regions of sea surface are identified for different subdivisions and ...

Growing evidence documents the adverse health impacts of common land use patterns in the U.S. (Frank & Engelke, ; Frumkin, Frank, & Jackson, ; Handy, Boarnet, Ewing, & Killingsworth, ). Thus, according to some researchers, many zoning and subdivision regulations are doing a poor job of protecting public health, safety, and welfare (Jackson, ; Lavizzo-Mourey & McGinnis, ; Sch...

a {em roman dominating function} on a graph $g = (v ,e)$ is a function $f : vlongrightarrow {0, 1, 2}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $v$ for which $f (v) = 0$ is adjacent to at least one vertex $u$ for which $f (u) = 2$. the {em weight} of a roman dominating function is the value $w(f)=sum_{vin v}f(v)$. the roman domination number of a graph $g$, denoted by $gamma_r(g)$, equals the...

The aggregation of areas is an important subproblem of the map generalization task. Especially, it is relevant for the generalization of topographic maps which contain areas of different land cover, such as settlement, water, or different kinds of vegetation. An existing approach is to apply algorithms that iteratively merge adjacent areas, taking only local measures into consideration. In cont...

Hedonic pricing has been used to identify values of nonmarket natural resource amenities. Most of these studies have been completed in suburban or urban communities rather than rural areas. The hedonic pricing study presented here includes developed residential parcel transactions occurring in a rural county in Michigan. We develop two hedonic pricing models using transaction data for two rural...

Neotmditional Neighborhood Design (NTND) has gained increasing attention from professional, academic, and popular circles during the past ten years. This review establishes a baseline evaluation of NTND, with the goal of providing the background for more specific research in the future. The first section of the paper orients NTND in a historical context, reviewing the main subdivision design tr...

Governmentregulationis one of the additional factorswhen examining influence land regulations by local authorities on housing supply. Specifically, this factor is taken into consideration to investigate effect city-specific factors supply elasticities. Some government regulation sub-factors usually proxied index value obtained from Wharton Residential Land Use Regulation Index (WRLURI). However...