Pre and post-processing are crucial tasks in Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). In this contribution we present an application to a data set from a real water supply network (WSN) in the town of Calarcá (Colombia), located in the so-called "Eje Cafetero" coffee region. We use traditional and well-known techniques of pre and post-processing with the aim of showing its importance in Data Min...

introduction promoting villages to towns is among the prominent characteristics of urbanization in few past decades and remains as a major challenge facing managers, policymakers and urban planners, particularly in developing countries. in iran, one of the growing impacts of rapid urbanization on the spatial structure of country is growing the number of urban centers via transformation villages...

sixty-year history of town and country planning in the world, raised a fundamental question: why following the successful models in the process of town and country planning don’t have always similar results? whether, the origin of differences and ambiguities are not in the boundaries, interrelation among the levels of decision making, policy making, uncontrollable democracy in land ownership, i...

OBJECTIVE To identify the factors that are associated with uptake of skilled delivery services during child delivery among women of reproductive age in Garissa town. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Garissa town. SUBJECT Three hundred and thirty four women aged 15-49 years who had had at least one delivery in their lifetime were asked about the type of delivery services they had duri...

Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925 Cape Town, South Africa Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa ICAP, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 10032 NY, USA *Author for corresponden...

J. Terblanche, Cape Town J.A. Myburgh, Johannesburg J. Krige, Cape Town P.C. Bornman, Cape Town L.C. van Rensburg, Stellenbosch C.J. Nel, Bloemfontein J.A. van Wyk, Medunsa E.M. Barker, Natal H.H. Lawson, Johannesburg V.O.L. Karusseit, Pretoria Chairman and national delegate Vice-chairman Secretary/treasurer Committee member Committee member Committee member Committee member Committee member Co...

With the rapid development of urbanization, fire risk factors have increased greatly, indicating a higher requirement for urban firefighting security. Fire rescue capabilities can be effectively improved by scientific layout stations, and therefore, optimal spatial arrangement stations has practical implications safety. In this paper, method planning locations is presented, taking into account ...

1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 3 Department of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape T...