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Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb

Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island, she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs, but those emerging elsewhere with global urbanisation. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend, highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. "Designing Suburban Futures" offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant, new suburban form.
SAFETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CITIES

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find common ground between the theory of crime prevention by means of architecture and environment design and between the theory of sustainable development. The importance of creating a visually and environmentally friendly urban environment is shown as a means of involving people in the urban infrastructure, and, consequently, increasing the safety level.Methodology/approach: The interdisciplinary approach based on knowledge of urban studies, architecture, town planning, criminology and sociology. The analysis of safety of the urban environment and foreign experience. Exploration of approaches and techniques for creating a safe urban environment based on foreign experience. Modern methods include architectural means, planning and environmental design: lighting, gardening, anti-vandal measures, safe building construction.Research findings: The urban development indicates criminogenic and a relatively safe areas. The use of eco-friendly materials and architectural means is aimed at energy conservation and their positive impact on the urban environment as a whole. The identified aspects of the public safety, sustainable development, ecology and architecture include use of local natural materials or composites that can accumulate energy or respond to environmental changes; vandal-resistant materials; landscaping not only as a decoration, but also as a defense against criminal encroachments and en- vironmental improvement; more intensive planting in the urban structure to improve the environment.Practical implications: Multi-storey apartments are more typical for large Russian cities like in South Korea. Due to their high density, such areas do not experience problems with accessibility and developed infrastructure, but control and security are more important. The reconstruction of existing or creation of new objects (building, park or area) consists of the following algorithm: collection of information about the site, analysis of analogs, the implementation of the selected principles, selection of appropriate tools and materials, and postproject research for quality assessment. The discussed examples can help in the building design and reconstruction. The proposed algorithm for assessing the safety of the urban environment can be introduced into the design process.Originality/value: The value of research lies in the comparison of different concepts of safe built environment. A study of the foreign experience in the urban places and living environment. The paper makes an attempt to draw analogies between different types of multi-storey urban development and identifies the greatest criminality of this or that type of development. The paper provides an overview of the latest studies of the urban environment. For the first time, an attempt is made to adapt the principles of decriminalization to the specific features of the Russian cities. The paper suggests the reconstruction algorithm for the urban areas, taking into account the requirements of criminogenic safety, and proposes the principles of decriminalization.
Human-Paper Interaction in the Digital Era: Directions for Human-Information Interaction Design

These days, we receive most information through digital mediums such as emails and social networking applications. Investigating the characteristics of human-paper interactions can help us design more meaningful interactions and better understand why people use paper documents in the age of digitalization. In this study, the interaction of people with physical documents was studied through a mixed-method of conducting a literature review, gathering expert opinions, interviewing subjects, and analysing Instagram photos. By codifying the gathered information, the human-paper interaction framework was developed. This framework articulates the advantages of physical documents compared to electronic documents and serves researchers and practitioners by providing insightful human factors about human-document interaction. Finally, we propose six design themes as the solutions to the findings of this study. These implications can provide practical foundations for future design and research.
ANALYSIS OF TRANSIT ALTERNATIVES

The planning and implementation of major public works projects require the consideration of many engineering, social, environmental, political, and fiscal issues. In particular, the 1970s have seen nonengineering issues take precedence over engineering considerations in project planning and implementation. These issues are highlighted in a conceptual approach based on six tests of feasibility--physical, operational, institutional, social and environmental, financial, and economic feasibility. This paper describes the application of this approach and the nonengineering issues that were identified as having an effect on the planning of a light-rail transit system in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The feasibility tests were found to constitute a valuable approach because they lead to a formal or explicit recognition of several planning issues that are usually only implicitly recognized in planning studies. Once they were explicitly identified, these issues could be analyzed in terms of their impact on the planning process. /Author/
Low-Cost Interactive Humanoid Robot

Humanoid robots have been on the frontier of robotic science for several decades, where human alike capabilities have been replicated into electromechanical units. Humanoid robots hold promises in the field of rescue, quarantine, hazardous conditions, radiation leakage, medical trials, etc. Building a humanoid robot is very complicated as it has to deal with locomotion, power, drive train, sensors and computing at the real time. With the development of Single board computers (SBC), the cost of computers has drastically fallen in last 2 decades. At the same time the computation power (GF/Sec) has also increased exponentially. Similarly, MEMS and sensors have also become industrially available with micro sized, robust and reliable. The power source used by robots has also advanced from dry cell to Li-Ion batteries with 5 to 8 times more energy density, resulting in higher operation time. The objective of this paper is to propose a low-cost Humanoid platform comprising a computational platform, sensors, power unit and drive train to deliver basic human alike functions like speech, visual signs, and navigation. The proposed humanoid robot uses a single board computer (SBC) capable of executing python-based AI frameworks combined with Ultrasonic sensors, Li-ion battery and DC motor drives. A top mounted touch screen is used for human machine interface (HMI). This human robotics used in a mid-size campus to guide people to their respective destination, display brief information to new users and navigate to different locations. The humanoid robot adds an aesthetical value to the campus.
Revenue Management with Flexible Products: Models and Methods for the Broadcasting Industry

Remarkable features of revenue management (RM) problems in the cargo, manufacturing and broadcasting industries are so-called flexible products. "Flexibility" means that the actual mode of production is not defined at the time of purchase, but can be chosen later on by the service provider. This book is among the first to analyze RM problems with flexible products and RM in broadcasting companies. The implications of flexibility are explicitly taken into account in the models and methods presented. As an aside, the book contains descriptions of algorithms to generate stochastic demand data streams for general RM problems. An implementation as a Microsoft Windows executable file is available, which can directly be used both by theoreticians and practitioners in their own simulation studies. This book will be of great value for researchers, managers and students interested in RM with flexible products in general and broadcasting companies in particular.
FPGA Implementation And Analysis Of RC7 Algorithm Using Reversible Logic Gates

Lightweight cryptography is one of the efficient technologies that permit the confidentiality of communication through an insecure channel. Recently, several researchers have made a study on a lightweight block cipher in the field of cryptography. In this research paper we have concentrated on the design of lightweight block cipher with its performance evaluation and security analysis. We introduce RC7-RLGC algorithm, an FPGA implementation of Rivest's Cipher 7 (RC7) algorithm using reversible logic gates to encrypt the messages. The pseudorandom numbers are generated in Reversible Logic Gates Circuits (RLGCs) are used as key; this minimizes the resource utilization in encryption process. The proposed RC7-RLGC architecture has occupied less FPGA device utilization on LP-Virtex-6 device. It has occupied 13.04 % of LUTs, 10 % of flip-flops and 36.363 % of slices less than the existing RC7 algorithm.
Regulation on worship house establishment and implication towards minority relation of religious people majority in Indonesia

This study aims to determine the implications of regulations for building houses of worship for minority relations of most religious communities in Indonesia. Several studies have examined the implications of regulations regarding establishing places of worship for the relations of the majority of religious communities in Indonesia. The regulation appears to make it difficult for religious minorities to build houses of worship. This regulation has implications for religious disharmony and disruption of national unity and integrity. It is time for regulations related to development to be reviewed and refined so that relations between minority communities and majority religions can be adequately maintained, said the study. This research uses a qualitative approach. It is time for regulations related to the construction of places of worship to be reviewed and refined so that relations between minorities and the majority of religious communities in Indonesia are well maintained.
Evaluation of Innovative Safety Treatments. Volume 2: A Study of the Effectiveness of Temporary Rumble Strips in Construction Work Zones

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 1 office utilized temporary rumble strips on the approach to work zone areas on State Road 31 to alert motorists of lane closures associated with a milling/resurfacing project, from the Lee/Charlotte County line to the Charlotte/Desoto County line. The ability of rumble strips to alert drivers of unusual or hazardous conditions makes them ideal candidates for use on the approach to a highway work zone. In addition to ease-of-use, temporary rumble strips are brightly colored. Thus, temporary rumble strips provide three types of warnings to alert the motorist to the approaching work zone: a physical vibration, an auditory rumble sound, and a visual cue. In addition to making drivers more alert, it is anticipated that temporary rumble strips will impact travel speeds. This report documents the findings and conclusions of a field experiment conducted on State Road 31 at various test (with temporary rumble strips) and control (without temporary rumble strips) locations to determine the effectiveness of temporary rumble strips in reducing travel speeds approaching highway work zones. The evaluation consisted of measuring travel speeds of motorists as they approached work zone areas with and without temporary rumble strips, and comparing changes in average speed, speed distribution, and the proportion of speeding vehicles. The results of this evaluation indicated that the use of temporary rumble strips in advance of construction work zones reduced vehicular speeds once motorists encountered the temporary rumble strips. Therefore, the use of temporary rumble strips prior to a construction work zone may be a practical countermeasure to reduce vehicular speeds through the work zone.
Invention and the rise of technocapitalism

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. the Intangible Wealth of Nations Chapter 3 2. The Emergence of Technocapitalism Chapter 4 3. A Century of Invention Chapter 5 4. The Cycles of Invention Chapter 6 5. The Infrastructure of Invention Chapter 7 6. The Technocapitalist Dynamic Chapter 8 7. Conclusions Part 9 Notes Part 10 Index Part 11 About the Author
Towards Solution Processed Electronic Circuits Using Carbon Nanotubes

The present work reports on the development of a class of sophisticated thin-film transistors (TFTs) based on ink-jet printing of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) for the channel formation. The transistors are manufactured on oxidized silicon wafers and flexible plastic substrates at ambient conditions. For this purpose, ink-jet printing techniques are developed with the aim of high-throughput production of SWCNT thin-film channels shaped in long strips. Stable SWCNT inks with proper fluidic characteristics are formulated by polymer addition. The present work unveils, through Monte Carlo simulations and in light of heterogeneous percolation, the underlying physics of the superiority of long-strip channels for SWCNT TFTs. It further predicts the compatibility of such a channel structure with ink-jet printing, taking into account the minimum dimensions achievable by commercially available printers. The printed devices exhibit improved electrical performance and scalability as compared to previously reported ink-jet printed SWCNT TFTs. The present work demonstrates that ink-jet printed SWCNT TFTs of long-strip channels are promising building blocks for flexible electronics.
miR-Island: an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for plant miRNA annotation and expression analysis

Background Next-generation sequencing of small RNAs has yielded an abundance of microRNA (miRNA) profiling data for diverse plant species. Many programs have been developed for plant miRNA annotation based on sequencing data, but these programs typically require computers with powerful hardware configurations. At present, few ultrafast computational tools are available for this type of data analysis on standard personal computers. Results We present miR-Island, an ultrafast tool for plant miRNA identification from deep sequencing data. Two important strategies contribute to the speed of the miR-Island program: (1) extracting precursor candidates using a pseudogenome and (2) using parallel processing for RNA secondary structure prediction. In our analysis, the pseudogenomic strategy reduced the time required for miRNA precursor extraction from 85 seconds to 19 seconds in Salvia miltiorrhiza , and parallel processing significantly reduced the time for the secondary structure prediction of 3957 S. miltiorrhiza miRNA precursors from 90 seconds to 32 seconds. miR-Island completed miRNA annotation for Arabidopsis in 18 minutes on a standard personal computer, which was less than 50% of the time for ShortStack and 9% of that for miRDeep-P. In terms of accuracy, miR-Island identified 128 miRNAs, which included 68 known miRNAs in miRBase. ShortStack predicted 55 total miRNAs, including 38 known miRNAs in miRBase. Of the 175 total miRNAs predicted by miRDeep-P, only 57 miRNAs were registered in miRBase. Agreement between miR-Island and ShortStack was moderate (kappa = 0.47). For the prediction of miRNAs from three other plant datasets, miR-Island spent approximately <50% of the ShortStack run time and <2.5% of the miRDeep-P run time. When the three programs were run on contig-level S. miltiorrhiza data, miR-Island, miRDeep-P and ShortStack finished the prediction in 17 minutes, 11 hours and 40 minutes, respectively. Conclusion Unlike other approaches, miR-Island is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for plant miRNA annotation and quantification on standard personal computer using the strategies of pseudo genome and multiple threads. In addition, miR-Island is a single command Perl script that is convenient to use for miRNA annotation and quantification. miR-Island was implemented in Linux and is available under the GPL GPU license from https://github.com/janeyurigao/miR-Island.
STEEL BRIDGE DECKS: FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF JOINTS BETWEEN LONGITUDINAL STIFFENERS

Current designs of steel orthotropic bridge decks commonly use V section longitudinal stiffeners which are continuous through the transverse diaphragms. An assessment has been made of the fatigue performance of a butt welded splice joint used to make the site a connection between lengths of stiffener. Fatigue tests were carried out on sections of deck containing a full size stiffener plate joint. Endurance was found to depend only on stress range, though fatigue crack growth was slower where the applied stress cycle was mainly compressive. Transverse butt welds on a backing bar ae placed in Class F in the British Standard for bridge design (BS 5400 part 10) but splice joints using this type of weld gave results which were within Class C. The high fatigue strength is attributed mainly to a favourable disposition of residual stresses in the splice joint welds and to the absence of penetration defects in test specimens. Taking account of fatigue data in the literature for this type of joint, and the difficulty of detecting weld root defects in thin plate, together with the fact that such joints are made under site conditions, it is recommended that splice joints of the type tested be treated as Class D for design purposes provided high standards of welding and non-destructive testing are adopted. Fatigue lives have been estimated for a splice joint in a typical modern bridge deck under design traffic loading. Assuming class D fatigue strength a design life of 21 years was calculated for a joint in the traffic lane of a bridge carrying one million commercial vehicles per year. A method of fatigue assessment for welded joints on existing bridges, based on recorded service stress history, was used to assess a splice joint in a bridge deck. The recorded data indicate that the bridge is currently carrying approximately half its design traffic loading and that the fatigue life of some splice joints may be reached in 55 to 70 years depending on traffic growth. Those joints fabricated to the same standard as the test specimens are unlikely to suffer fatigue damage. (Author/TRRL)
Design techniques for timing circuits in wireline and wireless communication systems

Clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit and frequency synthesizer are two essential timing circuits in wireline and wireless communication systems, respectively. With multigigabits/s high speed links and emerging 4G wireless system widely used in communication backbone infrastructures and consumer electronic devices, effective design of CDR and frequency synthesizer has become more and more important. The advanced scaled-down CMOS process has the limitations of leakage current, low supply voltage and process variation which pose great challenge to the analog circuit design. To overcome these issues, a digital intensive CDR solution is needed. Besides, it is desirable for the CDR to cover a wide range of data-rate and to be reference-less for improved flexibility. As for the frequency synthesizer design, the support for multi-standard to reduce the cost and area is desirable. In this work, a digital reference-less CDR is proposed to support continuous datarate ranging from 1 Gbps to 16 Gbps. The CDR adopts an 8 GHz~16 GHz DCO to achieve low random noise performance. A reference-less digital frequency locking loop is included in the system as the acquisition assistance for the CDR loop. To address the difficulty of jitter and stability evaluations for bang-band CDR, a Simulink model is developed to find out the jitter transfer (JTRAN), jitter generation (JGEN) and jitter tolerance (JTOL) performances for the CDR. The prototype CDR is implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process. The core area is 0.68 mm2. At 16 Gbps, the CDR consumes a power of 92.5 mW and is able to tolerate a sinusoidal jitter with an amplitude of 0.4 UI and a frequency of 4 MHz.
INCREASING MOBILITY AND REDUCING ACCIDENTS OF OLDER DRIVERS. IN: MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION IN THE ELDERLY

This paper describes how mobility a component of daily living that most adults take for granted. In general, it can be defined as a person's purposeful movement through the environment from one place to another. It is extremely important to a person's quality of life and personal autonomy, and therefore it is important that it be persevered as long into the lifespan as possible. Loss of mobility increases in prevalence with age, and causes include declining function in physical, cognitive, and sensory systems. Therefore, any treatment that can be used to enhance or maintain these functions is significant in that it may also have a positive impact on mobility outcomes. The objective of this paper is to focus on studies evaluating mobility and mobility outcomes among older individuals who are still living in their communities and who are still driving. Studies relating various factors for a variety of mobility outcomes (driving avoidance/cessation, automobile crashes, injuries, and life space/driving space) were summarized, as well as research evaluating whether interventions in these areas show promise for improving safety and mobility.
Development of a Track Management Method for Shinkansen Speed Increases

This paper describes the development of a railroad track management indicators designed to represent ride comfort when the running speed of Shinkansen high speed trains is increased. Focus is on determining if existing track management indicators would be adequate or if new indicators better representing the effect of track irregularity of longer wavelength would be required. The paper relates that researchers focused on testing track irregularity resulting from vertical vibration
Impact of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between budgetary participation and managerial performance and job satisfaction: some Tunisian evidence

This study empirically examined the effect of budget participation on managerial performance and job satisfaction using a contingency theory approach. Perceived environmental uncertainty presents the contingent variable investigated. Fifty three managers drawn from 30 Tunisian industrial companies participated in this study. Data were collected from managers using a questionnaire survey. The results have indicated that environmental uncertainty moderates the effect of budgetary participation on both perceived managerial performance and job satisfaction. Our results suggest that organisations should encourage the participation of managers in the budget setting process mainly in the current environment in Tunisia which is broadly characterised by a high level of uncertainty.