‘‘Living in harmony with nature” is the slogan of the Chinese government’s campaign against the environmental crisis and has become the target of many mega eco-city projects which have emerged in China during the last decade. A number of papers in Chinese journals attribute this slogan to the government’s revival of the Confucian ecological vision, combined with western technology. This paper f...

The main problem of educational centers in a mega city like Tehran, capital of Iran, is that no enforced service areas exist to guide school selection or allow students to make the most convenient commutes to the nearest schools. Without the defined school service areas, parents seeking better and more reputable schools often have no choice but to send children to schools outside the local area...

A powerful earthquake occurred in Nepal on 25th April 2015 where the highest measure of the tremor was 7.9 on the Richter scale with a minimum of 6.6. The death toll was around 3000 and thousands were injured in the devastation of the disaster. The earthquake and subsequent earth tremors were also felt in other South East Asian countries including Bangladesh, India and China. Bangladesh was jol...

Antibiogram, Biochemical Reactions, and Genotypic Pattern of Biofield Treated Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mahendra Kumar Trivedi1, Alice Branton1, Dahryn Trivedi1, Gopal Nayak1, Mayank Gangwar2 and Snehasis Jana2* 1Trivedi Global Inc., 10624 S Eastern Avenue Suite A-969, Henderson, NV 89052, USA 2Trivedi Science Research Laboratory Pvt. Ltd., Hall-A, Chinar Mega Mall, Chinar Fortune City, Hoshangaba...

A ubiquitous city is where everything is interconnected with everything else, where information is instantaneously shared. In a U-city, people can access a variety of web data in any kind of form by using small-screened mobile devices. In this paper we propose an approach which provides web information in either auditory or visual presentation by creating additional VoiceXML documents from exis...

Mega-city analysis with very high resolution (VHR) satellite images has been drawing increasing interest in the fields of city planning and social investigation. It is known that accurate land-use, urban density, and population distribution information is the key to mega-city monitoring and environmental studies. Therefore, how to generate land-use, urban density, and population distribution ma...

Characterizing mega-city pollution with TES O3 and CO measurements C. Shim, Q. Li, M. Luo, S. Kulawik, H. Worden, J. Worden, A. Eldering, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, A. Weinheimer, D. Knapp, D. Montzca, and T. Campos Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA NASA Langley Research Center, CO, USA National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), VA, USA Received: 28 August ...