The European Paediatric Association and Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations, the umbrella organization of the 49 national pediatric member societies from across Europe, invites pediatricians and other professionals involved in child health to attend the Eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS Congress, jointly cohosted by the Romanian Paediatric Society (http:// www.europaediatrics2...

Precise deformation monitoring associated with anthropogenic activities plays a key role for security aspects, damage control and implementing appropriate hazard mitigation measures. In this study, we use observations from high-resolution TerraSAR-X imagery to investigate surface deformation related to two case studies in Germany: the first one is the CO2 storage pilot site in Ketzin and the se...

This paper presents the first stages of a larger project concerning the study and realization of a 3D interactive environment of everyday life in 19th century Nicosia. The presented study involves the recreation of the built urban environment (i.e. the architecture of the city) based on historic and archival information taken from the first Land Registry documentations taking place on the islan...

A catalog of 383 earthquakes in southeastern New York, southwestern Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, including metropolitan New York City and Philadelphia, is compiled from historical and instrumental data from 1677 through 2006. A magnitude-felt area relationship is used to calculate the equivalent magnitudembLg prior to the advent of abundant instrumental data in 19...

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

Cities have undergone many changes since the 1950s, not least the expansion of urban areas to the detriment of the historic central areas, some of which have been left to decay. In Portugal the most visible results of this phenomenon are found in themetropolitan areas of Lisbon andPorto. To address this problem, the Portuguese Government conceived the first legal instrument for urban regenerati...

The landscape of the environment we live in is an image of our common humanity. The sense of place individuals and people as a whole have is both a biological response to the surrounding physical environment and a cultural creation. People get attached to places that are critical to their well-being or cause them distress. This paper sketches the story of ‘ Sahet Alqaryoun’ , a public open spac...