3.1 LAND TENURE SECURITY AND LEGALIZATION............................................................... 8 3.1.1 Land Tenure Security and Legalization: Lessons Learned...........................13 3.2 IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE DELIVERY.............................................. 15 3.2.1 Infrastructure and Building Standards ............................................................

This paper presents a modeling scheme for objects containing multiple materials or functionally graded materials (FGM), i.e. heterogeneous objects. The material composition variations under this modeling scheme are controlled by some reference features termed as “grading sources”. The “grading source” gathers the type of grading, position of grading and a material grading function for controlli...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Fine needle aspiration (FNA) material is increasingly being used to determine various prognostic parameters in patients with carcinoma breast. It was recommended that cytological grading should be part of all FNA reports of breast carcinoma so that preoperative prognostication could be done on it. However, the most reliable method for cytological grading that closely ref...

This thesis examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of land supply restriction on housing price and housing production. The analysis is conducted in the context of a closed city, where any increase in population must be accommodated within the market. The theoretical part of the analysis extends the urban spatial theory by including natural and contrived land supply restrictio...

The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) is one of the first ISO spatial domain standards, and has been proven one of the best candidates for unambiguously representing 3D Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities. Consequently, multiple LADM-based country profile implementations have been developed since the approval of LADM as an ISO standard; however, there is still a gap for technical im...

An important government activity of all nation states is building and maintaining a land administration system (LAS) with the primary objective of supporting an efficient and effective land market. This includes cadastral surveys to identify and subdivide land, land registry systems to support simple land trading (buying, selling, mortgaging and leasing land) and land information systems to fac...

Although intertester and intratester reliability have been common themes in Functional Movement Screen (FMS) research, the criterion validity of manual grading is yet to be comprehensively examined. This study compared the FMS scores assigned by a certified FMS tester to those measured by an objective inertial-based (IMU) motion capture system. Eleven female division I collegiate athletes perfo...

The paper attempts to identify the exact sense of the word through a process of establishing relations between similar words in the sample ontology. The philosophy relates to analysing the variance in sense among similar words with the help of a data mining tool to arrive at the exact sense of the target word as part of a question answering system. The focus spreads to derive new information fr...

Spatial Data Mining (SDM) is a complex phenomenon as it deals with data that represents both spatial and non-spatial correlations in spatial databases. SDM extracts latent and implicit trends in spatial data to acquire business intelligence which support expert decision making. Spatial database is very vast as it can hold the spatial objects spread across the globe. Mining such databases have p...

New Zealand has a legal 3D cadastre, and has done since the inception of its cadastral survey and tenure systems around 150 years ago. However, the digital representation of the cadastre is 2D with 3D situations handled via static plan, section and elevation images and supporting textual information. Work is currently underway to develop a 3D digital cadastre that will enable the 3D spatial ext...