Countermeasures to urban flooding should consider long-term perspectives, because climate change impacts are unpredictable and complex. Urban green spaces have emerged as a potential option to reduce urban flood risks, and their effectiveness has been highlighted in notable urban water management studies. In this study, flooded areas in Seoul, Korea, were divided into four flooded area types by...

Achieving sustainable development for managers and urban planning requires a systemic attitude to various urban issues and phenomena and a comprehensive urban development cannot be obtained with a single-dimensional perspective. Hence, in implementing various urban projects, it is necessary to examine the interactions of these projects with the surrounding environment and to assess their impact...

According to a composite of several well-esteemed English dictionary definitions, the word context has two primary meanings. Most basically, it is defined from a linguistic viewpoint as “a group of words of interest that either precede or follow another word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect.” (Aside: In linguistic semantics, the phenomenon that the interpretation of an expr...

Usage quotes were compiled using Google books [2], Oxford English Dictionary Online [3], and The Stanford dictionary of Anglicized words and phrases [1]. Dates and authors of usage quotes are cited in text. Page numbers for usage quotes, if available, are found along with the quotes themselves in the appendix at the end of the paper. A number in brackets [ ] at the end of each entry tells which...

As of January 1, 2001, the population of metropolitan France reached 59 million and that of the overseas departments 1.7 million, a total of 60.7 million inhabitants for all of France [1]. In metropolitan France, in 2000, the population increased by 300,000 — a growth rate of +0.5%. This rate is higher than during the last 8 years, owing to a significant increase of births, a decrease of deaths...

We present a method of automatically constructing a domain-specific Korean sentiment dictionary which can be used to classify the sentiment of online movie reviews. More than 1.18 million online movie reviews with movie ratings ranging between 1 to 4 and 7 to 10 were collected across fourteen different movie genres to calculate the joint probability of a given word and the sentiment of movie re...

Reviewing dictionaries is part of the ongoing work in lexicography, and several lexicographers have discussed the process and guidelines for reviews published in academic journals. However, few have addressed the evaluation of the outside matter and, if so, only in a cursory way. This article examines the evaluation of the outside matter in reviews published in Lexikos with a view to proposing ...

Recommended Citation Jones, Christine L., "Comparing remote sensing and ground-based methods of quantifying cover type and carbon storage in an urban forest", Master's report, 2011 2 This report, " Comparing remote sensing and ground-based methods of quantifying cover type and carbon storage in an urban forest " , is hereby approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of M...

abstract: today, informal settlements have been accepted in the cities and towns as a problem and an urban fact facing urban and regional management in different countries of the world. according to past experiences and the evolutions of today, searching for new and efficient solutions in order to improve the quality of these settlements in line with converting them into a habitable zone of urb...