sustainable transportation with the aim of urban sustainable development aims to improve the environmental quality and the socio-economic condition. one of the most important strategies for achieving sustainable transportation is planning and designing for walking, or in other words increasing urban walkability. therefore, increased walkability has become a key issue in urban planning. understa...

Spatial and temporal aberration detection methods for disease outbreaks in syndromic surveillance systems Dongmei Chen a , John Cunningham b , Kieran Moore c & Jie Tian d a Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada b Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit, ON, Canada c Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada d Department of Geology & G...

Systematic chemical studies indicate that the capability of Watson-Crick base-pairing is widespread among potentially natural nucleic acid alternatives taken from RNA's close structural neighborhood. A comparison of RNA and such alternatives with regard to chemical properties that are fundamental to the biological function of RNA provides chemical facts that may contain clues to RNA's origin.

Nowadays, offering extended warranty is considered as a lucrative source of income from the perspective of the after-sale service providers. Meanwhile, the main concern is presence or absence of base warranty and strategies adopted by the manufacturer during this period. Moreover, extended warranty structure must be responsive and customer oriented, which not only control the services cost but ...

We are presenting in this volume selected, peer-reviewed, short papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS’14) which took place in Djerba, Tunisia, during October 8-11, 2014.

Available online 31 July 2008

OBJECTIVE To determine if there is a relationship between parental perception of neighborhood safety and overweight at the age of 7 years. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. SETTING Ten urban and rural US sites. PARTICIPANTS A total of 768 children selected via conditional random ...

Recent trends in field of wireless networks is setting up Wireless Sensor Networks that, senses specified parameter(s) related to environment; processes sensed data and wirelessly communicates it to a base station. Such networks open up a whole new range of applications, including precision agriculture, monitoring and tracking vehicles, animals and humans, battle-field surveillance, civil struc...