cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Housing cooperatives as an opportunity for solving the housing issue
Creators: name: Lipej, Bozena
name: Turel, Gregor
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: housing cooperative; housing policy; Slovenia; national housing program

description: One of the solutions for solving housing issues is a housing cooperative which provides non-profit accommodation possibilities to the members of the cooperative. A housing cooperative is an independent community of individuals who voluntarily act together in order to realize their common economic, social and cultural needs and wishes through the housing company which they jointly and democratically manage. The article presents several cases of establishing housing cooperatives worldwide to complement the property offer on the market. The main part aims to analyze the development of such practice in Slovenia. The emphasis is on presenting experiences of housing cooperatives in municipalities of Ljubljana and Domžale, which were established in order to provide affordable and quality housing. The purpose of the housing cooperative in Ljubljana is therefore to facilitate construction, renting and management of non-profit apartments for rent, whilst implementing the participatory principle of planning. For Domžale, housing cooperatives based on the Swiss example are an interesting solution for solving the lack of non-profit apartments for young people and young families. The need for closer cooperation between the state, the municipality and private capital has been established. Properties owned by the state and the municipality ought to be better utilized, since providing good living conditions for young people is an urgent step in ensuring sustainable development of the country. By establishing housing cooperatives, it is expected we could achieve common synergistic effects between younger and other populations, in association with the local community.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Every town is a bordertown
Creators: name: Mares, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: "Jay-kob Tes-fay Sul-tan." In his austere office above Woolshed Street, Graham Excell is practising his pronunciations for the citizenship ceremony. "Say-eed Mohammed Tar-har." As mayor of Tatiara District Council, the "good country" around Bordertown in the southeast corner of South Australia, the former shearer is keen to get things right. He doesn’t want the mayor's mangling of their names to be the dominant memory of becoming Australian for these four new citizens.
Conversate: Supporting Reflective Learning in Interview Practice Through Interactive Simulation and Dialogic Feedback
Creators: name: Daryanto, Taufiq
name: Ding, Xiaohan
name: Wilhelm, Lance T.
name: Stil, Sophia
name: Knutsen, Kirk McInnis
name: Rho, Eugenia H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Job interviews play a critical role in shaping one's career, yet practicing interview skills can be challenging, especially without access to human coaches or peers for feedback. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) present an opportunity to enhance the interview practice experience. Yet, little research has explored the effectiveness and user perceptions of such systems or the benefits and challenges of using LLMs for interview practice. Furthermore, while prior work and recent commercial tools have demonstrated the potential of AI to assist with interview practice, they often deliver one-way feedback, where users only receive information about their performance. By contrast, dialogic feedback, a concept developed in learning sciences, is a two-way interaction feedback process that allows users to further engage with and learn from the provided feedback through interactive dialogue. This paper introduces Conversate, a web-based application that supports reflective learning in job interview practice by leveraging large language models (LLMs) for interactive interview simulations and dialogic feedback. To start the interview session, the user provides the title of a job position (e.g., entry-level software engineer) in the system. Then, our system will initialize the LLM agent to start the interview simulation by asking the user an opening interview question and following up with questions carefully adapted to subsequent user responses. After the interview session, our back-end LLM framework will then analyze the user's responses and highlight areas for improvement. Users can then annotate the transcript by selecting specific sections and writing self-reflections. Finally, the user can interact with the system for dialogic feedback, conversing with the LLM agent to learn from and iteratively refine their answers based on the agent's guidance.
Infrastructure Management: Development of a Business Model for Transport Infrastructure Interdependencies Management
Creators: name: Kalyviotis, Nikolaos
name: Rogers, Christopher D. F.
name: Tight, Miles R.
name: Hewings, Geoffrey J. D.
name: Doloi, Hemanta
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Business model; Transport management; Infrastructure planning

description: There is ongoing debate about the value of the benefits of infrastructure systems (specifically those of energy, water & wastewater, transport, waste, and communications) and how to prioritize infrastructure investments to encompass considerations of social, economic and environmental wellbeing. The use of the term ‘infrastructure system’ is related to interdependencies. Infrastructure systems operating in different countries and cities are interrelated in different ways, but all have a strong relationship to ‘transport’ – there is a cost and a utility associated with movement. Infrastructure systems are ultimately created to serve individuals, who place a value on them. In order to explore all forms of value realisation – what is commonly termed a business model – the relationship between an individual and the transport system needs to be established. The hypothesis being tested in this paper is that it is possible to identify both the full range of value interdependencies required, and hence to establish a robust business model, for transport infrastructure interdependencies management in terms of social, economic and environmental wellbeing with the other four national infrastructure sectors in the UK (see above). Different research methods were used for each type of value: economic and environmental value were analysed through Pearson correlation coefficient of secondary data, social value was analysed through statistical analysis (mean, median, mode) of primary data. The new business model challenges the monodirectional value creation of more traditional business models by considering the interdependent bidirectional value creation.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
La Suprema Corte analizza gli obblighi relativi alla sicurezza dei lavori in quota: le misure di protezione collettiva sono prioritarie rispetto a quelle di protezione individuale
Creators: name: Montrano, Michele
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
2927559.pdf
Creators: name: Sozanski, Krzysztof
name: Sisamakis, Evangelos
name: Zhang, Xuzhu
name: Holyst, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The document contains additional details on the models and data analysis methods used, description of experimental details, illumination and detection profile visualizations, as well as supplementary experimental results.
Research Series 68: Exploring a food system index for understanding food system transformation processes
Creators: name: Van Berkum, Siemen
name: Ruben, Ruerd
name: Van Berkum, Siemen
name: Ruben, Ruerd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: food system,
subject: index approach,
subject: country comparison,
subject: typology,
subject: policy coherence

description: This paper explores the prospects for a food system index (FSI) capturing several key components that influence differences in food system performance at the country level. The theoretical foundations and methodological approach underlying the FSI framework are outlined and its relevance for understanding major food system characteristics is illustrated. The paper focuses on major FSI differences between regions and types of countries, and compares FSI outcomes across different types of food systems and in relation to other indicators of change in the rural and economic structure. Finally, the potential of the FSI framework for identifying more coherent food system policies is explained and the challenges for further operationalization are acknowledged.
Identificazione delle caratteristiche di pericolosità di inchiostri per tatuaggi destinati al consumatore finale
Creators: name: Caruso, Felice
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: Il crescente interesse per tatuaggi solleva preoccupazioni sulla sicurezza degli inchiostri, soprattutto tra i giovani dell'UE. Gli inchiostri contengono sostanze chimiche con rischi a
breve e lungo termine. Gli Ufficiali Tecnici delle agenzie sanitarie monitorano e ispezionano studi di tatuatori per garantire conformità alle norme. Collaborazioni con esperti e l'analisi
di RAPEX contribuiscono a comprendere e applicare il Regolamento REACH, assicurando un ambiente sicuro. La diversità degli inchiostri richiede selezione attenta, mentre pratiche
igieniche e linee guida riducono i rischi per la salute.
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
Geometric routing protocol in Disruption tolerant network
Creators: name: Du, Jingzhe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: We describe Geometric Localized Routing (GLR) in Disruption (delay) tolerant networks (DTNs). Although DTNs do not guarantee the connectivity of the network all the time, geometric location information still could be used to make routing decisions in a store and forward way. When a message reaches a region where greedy forwarding is impossible for some time, geometric planar spanners, especially local Delaunay triangulation still could be used to provide a good routing graph with constant stretch factor and shorter paths during communication. Existing DTN routing protocols either focus on the improvement of message delivery latency and delivery ratio in an impractical way, or without achieving desirable delivery attributes. In this work, we design local distributed solutions to extract spanning trees from Delaunay triangulation (DT) in the direction from source to destination. Our protocol resorts to flooding packets along the trees and with high probability packets are delivered with low delay. The goals of Geometric Localized Routing are: (1) fast delivery with intelligence, (2) better storage utilization. (3) guaranteed delivery using face routing. Through the implementation in the NS-2 simulator, we have shown that the proposed routing protocol achieves high delivery ratio with satisfied attributes.
2929318.pdf
Creators: name: Zhan, Xiang
name: Cavalcanti, Eric
name: Li, Jian
name: Bian, Zhihao
name: Zhang, Yong-Sheng
name: Wiseman, Howard
name: Xue, Peng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Reconsidering urban development: the role of local self-organized groups in urban open green space upgrade
Creators: name: Syrakoy, Athena Christina
name: Kalantzi, Eleni
name: Litsiou, Tzeni
name: Papadopoulou, Eleni
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: self-organized groups; participatory spatial planning and design; urban design; urban upgrade; open green spaces; resilience; Ev Zin; university campus

description: In the city of Thessaloniki, the co-creation of ‘an inclusive city’, which will ‘empower citizens and community-led projects... and enable co- creation in open and public spaces’, appears as one of the four main goals of the Resilience Strategy of the city, ‘Thessaloniki 2030’, published in 2017. Within this frame, and in conjunction with the need of open green spaces that Thessaloniki has, this paper is an attempt to identify and highlight the contribution of design self-organized groups to the upgrade of the urban environment of the city of Thessaloniki. This study focuses on the design team of Ev Zin (Ευ Ζην), an initiative of a group of students from the School of Spatial Planning and Development, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Aristotle’s University main campus occupies a large area within the city of Thessaloniki. This campus, particularly its various open spaces appear to be in a general degraded state, frequently used for delinquent activities. A group of students decided to act and to focus on the upgrade of the open green spaces of the campus, starting from a specific green space, situated at a focal point/crossroads within the campus. These students formed the Ev Zin group. This paper will be, hence, discussing the conditions that led to the degradation of the campus and the area around it, the formation of this team and its development, but more importantly the efforts of the Ev Zin group towards the upgrading of the campus, as well as the mobilization that these efforts have created, particularly concerning the principal formal stakeholders, mainly the Aristotle University’s authorities and the Attiko Metro authorities, the company constructing the underground stations at the university.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
2929318.pdf
Creators: name: Zhan, Xiang
name: Cavalcanti, Eric
name: Li, Jian
name: Bian, Zhihao
name: Zhang, Yong-Sheng
name: Wiseman, Howard
name: Xue, Peng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Land Use and Transportation: Identifying the relationship between parking and land use in the Municipality of Zografou, Athens
Creators: name: Bakogiannis, Efthimios
name: Kyriakidis, Charalampos
name: Siti, Maria
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: land use; sustainable mobility; Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs); urban planning, transportation planning.

description: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the methodology of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans as a tool for combined urban and traffic planning to redefine land use in cities. Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) set the strategic objectives of cities and define the required actions for the desirable development and organization of the land use and movement system of citizens as well as the transport/distribution network of goods in urban areas. The fundamental principle of SUMP is the promotion and wider dissemination of forms of mobility that meet the economic, social and environmental requirements of sustainable development. The ultimate goal of the SUMP, as well as their notifying difference with the approaches followed by 'traditional' traffic studies, is their focus on serving people’s movement instead of servicing the (mostly motorized) vehicles in the available urban space. The production of urban space is considered a necessary social equipment, it determines the need for development and the small property is the basic urban unit in Greece. The urban property and the uses it may have are an important part of the most complex form of the Greek city, which is totally connected to the transport system.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Etichettatura ambientale degli imballaggi: dal produttore al consumatore
Creators: name: Panetta, Chiara
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: Il 01/01/2023 con l’entrata in vigore deln Decreto Legislativo n. 116 del 3 settembre 2020 (sospeso per effetto dei decreti legge “Milleproroghe”) è diventato obbligatorio indicare sugli imballaggi la natura dei materiali
utilizzati e le indicazioni sul loro smaltimento,ai fini della identificazione e classificazione decreto, produttori, utilizzatori e distributori di imballaggi dovranno fornire tutte leinformazioni necessarie al consumatore finale
per poter effettuare correttamente la raccolta differenziata sulla base della tipologia di imballaggio. Per comprendere al meglio quali potessero essere le principali lacune che affliggono
produttori, utilizzatori e distributori di imballaggi, e i consumatori finali di questi ultimi,sono state condotte due indagini differenti somministrando due diversi questionari:
 • un primo questionario destinato alle aziende al fine di individuare le principali criticità sollevate dalle tre categorie coinvolte;
• un secondo questionario rivolto al consumatore finale, utile, invece, a far emergere le lacune pratiche nella corretta gestione del rifiuto e del suo smaltimento, analizzando i cambiamenti abitudinari nella pratica della raccolta differenziata sulla base dei nuovi obblighi normativi.
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
On designs and fast decoding algorithms of space-time codes and group codes
Creators: name: Niyomsataya, Teresan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis consists of two main areas: space-time coding for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems and group coding generated from affine reflection groups. MIMO systems, using multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver, employ multiplexing to increase the rate and diversity to improve the performance and spectral efficiency of data transmission in wireless communications. Space-time coding has been developed to achieve high data rate and reliability in MIMO wireless systems. The research on space-time coding (in code designs, performance analysis, decoding algorithms and its applications) has been growing rapidly in past decade. We present systematic designs of full diversity unitary space-time codes with high coding gain, using group codes (permutation codes variant II and finite reflection group codes), the Bruhat decomposition and character tables of groups. We also analyze the pairwise error probability of space-time codes in a keyhole channel, and develop a fast optimization to the decision metric of multiple-symbol detection for differential unitary space-time modulation using a stack algorithm. Group codes generated from affine reflection group codes are related to high dimensional constellations, that is, lattice codes. High dimensional constellations have been studied widely for problems in communication systems, with priority on finding those with good minimum nearest-neighbour distance and simple decoding algorithm. We derive formulas for the initial vector and best minimum distance of affine reflection group codes of any rank. We also propose efficient decoding algorithms (from the geometrical analysis of groups and from their trellis diagram representations). This includes an original method to decode the codewords which lie outside the bounded region. Finally, we investigate their applications to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems to reduce a peak-to-average power ratio.
2930466.pdf
Creators: name: Sun, Hung-Wei
name: Huang, Pei-Chi
name: TZENG, YI-HSUAN
name: HUANG, JEN-TING
name: Lin, Chii Dong
name: Jin, Cheng
name: Chen, Ming-Chang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary materials
Germany: the rise of far-right Frauke Petry
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the wake of the pre-Christmas Berlin market attack, German far-right leader Frauke Petry declared “horror has arrived” and that the German Christian tradition was under threat. Petry heads The Alternative for Germany party, which seems certain to enter the Bundestag in the 2017 elections. Who is she, and what does the party stand for?
Predictive failure? Intelligence-gathering and the FLQ
Creators: name: St. Clair, Ronald Benjamin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: It has been the Canadian federal government's consistent position that the decision to invoke the War Measures Act had been arrived at due to a lack of available intelligence on the FLQ. They contend that sufficient advance warning of the FLQ's intentions to kidnap political officials before the October Crisis of 1970 had not been provided, and they were not given adequate intelligence on the nature and capabilities of the threat during the crisis. Essentially, the argument asserts that there had been a failure on the part of the intelligence-community in Canada to predict the FLQ's future actions. This thesis challenges the assumption of predictive failure through a critical analysis of the available primary source material on the subject. The analysis is accomplished in part by drawing upon the classical works in intelligence-gathering in order to identify the problems that have historically hampered intelligence-gathering efforts and to determine whether or not they were evident in the present case. Ultimately, this model of analysis contradicts the assumption of predictive failure by demonstrating that serious problems of intelligence-gathering had existed long before the October Crisis began. These problems compounded over time to ensure that, although adequate intelligence on the FLQ did exist, it's transmission from intelligence-gatherers to decision-makers was severely hampered.
title:  La pronuncia è la cenerentola della didattica dell’arabo? Fonetica e insegnamento dell’arabo standard. Qualche riflessione
Creators: name: Mion, Giuliano
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: Questo articolo intende mostrare alcune delle difficoltà che uno studente di arabo riscontra nel campo della fonetica e della pronuncia. Durante il processo di acquisizione della varietà standard di tale lingua, una attenzione particolare è data soltanto ad alcune consonante ritenute particolarmente difficili da pronunciare, come per esempio le cosiddette enfatiche. Ma al di là di questi segmenti, durante l’insegnamento e l’apprendimento dell’arabo, uno dei maggiori desiderata è una maggiore focalizzazione sull’intero sistema consonantico e sul vocalismo, nonché sui tratti soprasegmentali.
description: Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative
“Sharing” the Mykonian summer: The case of AirBnB
Creators: name: Xifilidou, Agapi
name: Mangina, Konstantina
name: Karanikolas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: AirBnB; Mykonos; Hospitality Real Estate

description: The aim of this paper is to illustrate an overview of the current AirBnB market in the Greek island of Mykonos and its place within the entire hospitality real estate market of the island. Global economy has changed its form and functions several times during the years. Sharing economy or collaborative consumption is a new way of economic activity, which basically refers to goods and services sharing. The change from owning to sharing, the wide use of online social networks and electronic markets and the expansion of mobile devices and electronic services have all contributed to the augmentation of sharing economy. The impact of sharing economy on real estate began on 2008, when AirBnB was founded in San Francisco. Nowadays, sharing economy in real estate is very popular not only in USA but internationally too and AirBnB has become one of the most famous short-term lease platforms. Mykonos which is one of the most touristic and popular Greek islands enjoys its own economy. Despite the economic crisis, Mykonos has not been affected in terms of real estate values, hotel room values and holiday expenses. In such an economy, AirBnB has found its place all over the island. This paper aims at mapping the AirBnB phenomenon in Mykonos through the use of GIS, proving that sharing economy is not just targeting markets of lower income or budget and highlighting any geographical patterns in the location of AirBnB properties. Moreover, an analysis on the factors that affect the rental value/day provides an additional insight. It is clearly proven that AirBnB covers any additional need for tourist accommodation successfully even in the high demanding market of Mykonos with over 300 sharing residential facilities, which are described as a shared space, a private room or even an entire house. The paper provides interesting results on the location of each sharing property, the site and property attributes, amenities and services and rental rules, which are all investigated in order to present the Mykonian AirBnB.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Success criteria and critical success factors in project success: a literature review
Creators: name: Lamprou, Athanasios
name: Vagiona, Dimitra
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: project success; success criteria; critical success factors

description: Project success criteria are dependent variables that measure the successful outcome of a project, while project success factors are the independent elements of a project that can increase the likelihood of success. In other words, success criteria are used to measure success whilst success factors facilitate the achievement of success. The purpose of this paper is to systematically record and identify project success criteria as well as critical success factors found in the literature and published in academic journals in order to form an effective and widely accessible framework to measure project success. Time - schedule, cost - budget, user satisfaction, quality-performance, business and commercial performance are the most frequently used success criteria, followed by technical specifications and requirements, stakeholders’ satisfaction, strategic goals/objectives and competitiveness, functionality, project team satisfaction and safety. Some researchers also refer to contractor satisfaction, future perspective and environmental impact, while handful are those that support that effectiveness and suppliers’ satisfaction can influence project success. The critical factors influencing the success of projects are identified and commonly related to the following areas: project (e.g. clear goal, realistic schedule, adequate funds, resources, size, complexity), project manager and leadership (e.g. leadership, management of changes, effective conflict resolution, communication), project team members (e.g. communication, technical background, qualified team), organization (e.g. top management support, responsibility and authority chart) and external environment (client, technological environment, political environment, social environment, physical environment).
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
The impact of the Government Immovable Asset Management Act (GIAMA) on the Department of Public Works, South Africa
Creators: name: Phathela, Ayhasei V.
name: Cloete, Chris E.
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Asset register; asset management plan; asset strategy; Government Immovable Asset Management Act; immovable assets; life cycle asset management

description: Purpose of the paper: To investigate of the impact of the Government Immovable Asset Management Act (GIAMA, No. 19 of 2007) on immovable asset management by the Department of Public Works (DPW), South Africa, which is mandated to be the custodian of all immovable assets utilized by National Departments. Methodology. Primary sources included survey questionnaires and interviews with relevant managers of all business units involved in life cycle asset management within DPW. The units are Asset Investment Management, Professional Services, Policy and Key Accounts Management. The population was subdivided into three levels of management (Chief Directors, Directors, Deputy Directors). Stratified random sampling identified a total of 30 out of a total population of 80 managers from the four units. A total of 27 completed questionnaires were received and analysed. Findings The study established that the roles and goals of the different business units are not properly aligned to strategic goals of the department. The asset register in the department was not updated. A number of asset management policy and skills gaps need to be addressed to comply with GIAMA. It is recommended that DPW should ensure that it addresses the gaps in the asset management systems, policies, skills and asset management planning in the department to ensure compliance. Practical implications. Implementation of the recommendations should contribute to the optimization of the fixed assets owned by the South African government and to service delivery to User Departments.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Real estate valuation using regression models and artificial neural networks: An applied study in Thessaloniki
Creators: name: Georgiadis, Alexios
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: real estate valuation; appraisal; machine learning; SAR models; geographically weighted regression; neural networks; ensemble

description: In recent years a number of different methods based in statistical methods and machine learning have been dominating the area of computer-assisted appraisal, the most popular ones being the spatial auto-regressive (SAR) models, the geographically weighted regression (GWR) and artificial neural networks. In this presentation the above techniques are first analyzed. Then they are applied, alongside an ensemble and a stacked model, in the area of Thessaloniki (Greece) two times: once after enhancing the database with spatial attributes derived from GIS, and once more using only simple, easy to derive spatial attributes that do not need such an extensive framework. The results of each model are presented, compared with each other and discussed in detail.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Real-World Benchmarks for FAIR Data Repositories: Meeting the Needs for Modern Open Data
Creators: name: Griffith, Arran
name: Esteva, Maria
name: Field, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Repository benchmarks
performance testing
research data
scalability
OR2024

description: Data repositories are fundamental infrastructure in the open science ecosystem, however traditional repository systems now face the challenge of keeping pace with the ever-growing and exponentially increasing scale of modern research data production. Currently, there is limited understanding of how an implementation involving Fedora 6.x in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment may influence data scalability and functional efficiency of the repository.

This presentation will provide an in-depth look on on-going collaboration between the Fedora program team and data intensive computing and cloud developers at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), to address the performance and scalability limits of Fedora 6.x in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Results of this collaboration will provide both the Fedora users and the repository community at large, with a better understanding of the scalability of a repository environment and how to assess it systematically. These crucial performance metrics will allow data repository technical, curatorial and administrative staff to understand how to optimize their infrastructure to meet the demand for management and access of large open data.
Real-World Benchmarks for FAIR Data Repositories: Meeting the Needs for Modern Open Data
Creators: name: Griffith, Arran
name: Esteva, Maria
name: Field, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Repository benchmarks
performance testing
research data
scalability
OR2024

description: Data repositories are fundamental infrastructure in the open science ecosystem, however traditional repository systems now face the challenge of keeping pace with the ever-growing and exponentially increasing scale of modern research data production. Currently, there is limited understanding of how an implementation involving Fedora 6.x in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment may influence data scalability and functional efficiency of the repository.This presentation will provide an in-depth look on on-going collaboration between the Fedora program team and data intensive computing and cloud developers at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), to address the performance and scalability limits of Fedora 6.x in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Results of this collaboration will provide both the Fedora users and the repository community at large, with a better understanding of the scalability of a repository environment and how to assess it systematically. These crucial performance metrics will allow data repository technical, curatorial and administrative staff to understand how to optimize their infrastructure to meet the demand for management and access of large open data.
Spatial analysis of housing prices in the Athens Region, Greece
Creators: name: Iliopoulou, Polixeni
name: Stratakis, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Housing prices; Geographically Weighted Regression; Greater Athens region; spatial analysis

description: In this paper the housing prices in the Greater Athens region are analyzed employing data for the structural and locational characteristics of dwellings. The sample is derived from the total housing supply in 2017 and includes several thousand dwellings for sale available by online real estate agencies. However only houses for which the approximate location, in terms of geographic coordinates, is available are included in the sample. At first a description of the houses is provided, in terms of their structural characteristics, such as type of the dwelling, size, floor, number of bedrooms, parking etc. In addition several characteristics relative to the location of dwellings, such as distance from the closest metro station or distance from the city center are calculated in a GIS environment. Second, the influence of several factors on housing prices, for example the provision of parking or the type of the dwelling are examined, through statistical testing. Finally, regression analysis is used in order to estimate housing prices in the Greater Athens region. The explanatory factors are structural as well as locational characteristics. Due to the spatial dependency of the residuals in Ordinary Least Squares method, a spatial regression model (Geographically Weighted Regression) is also presented, which improves the accuracy of the prediction. A general conclusion is that most locational characteristics did not contribute significantly to the explanatory power of a regression model when compared to structural characteristics. However, the importance of locational factors was more evident when some critical distances were incorporated in statistical testing.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Abandoned buildings and land in the city: venues for urban redevelopment and regeneration
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Marilena
name: Kakana, Zoe
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: abandoned buildings; abandoned land; urban regeneration; urban development; Lamia (Greece)

description: Abandoned buildings and property is a common plight that urban centers face. A field research carried out in the CBD of Lamia, a typical Greek medium-sized town, recorded 60 abandoned buildings. Of these, 18.5% were part of the designated built heritage, 27.7% were classified as high risk of collapse, 21.7% of medium risk of collapse, 38.5% with extensive signs of abandonment in their facades, 15% functionally abandoned (incomplete constructions), while 20% were recorded as dangerous to the public health. The paper suggests that apart from the negative side, under certain conditions abandoned buildings and land can serve as venues for urban development and regeneration, offering a series of opportunities to the cities for growth, competitiveness and urban innovation.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Encouraging urban planning and development practice to contribute to sustainable development. A methodology and a use case
Creators: name: Angelidou, Margarita
name: Karachaliou, Eleni
name: Stylianidis, Efstratios
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land use planning; Ontologies; Tourism; Decision-support; Knowledge-management

description: One of the most complex challenges the tourism industry faces is keeping up to date with information technology developments caused by the globalisation of information and advances in technology. The development of robust decision support systems for tourism land use planning is a way to address this challenge. This paper demonstrates how a spatial decision support system (SDSS), called the Land Use Decision sUpport System (LUDUS), can contribute in allocating complex forms of tourism. The system combines an artificial intelligence technique, called ontologies, with Geographic Information Systems and object-oriented programming to support decision-making in spatial planning. The system consists of two subsystems: the Insert Data Subsystem and the Graphic Imaging and Decision Support Subsystem. The core of the system is an ontology that is aligned to a standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium, called Geosparql. The case study of this paper is the Mastichochoria area of Chios Island, Greece. Therefore, the structure of the ontology was modelled according to the provisions of Greek legislation. The results produced confirmed the correct coding and application of the system’s criteria. The validity, accuracy and reliability of the results were also confirmed. The adopted approach facilitates the identification of alternative options for allocating, among other land use types, complex forms of tourism development in suburban areas, by examining the provisions of the legal framework as well as their geology and terrain.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Institutional development of the real estate market in the Balkan region -State, challenges, perspective -
Creators: name: Gospavic, Zagorka
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: institutional development; real estate market; transaction procedures

description: The historical development of the real estate market in the Balkans is interesting from several aspects especially in the post-socialist period after the change of the political system and the abandonment of the socialism policy and the transition to a model of a market economy. The collapse of a dominant market with the prevailing social capital followed, new states were formed with new legal frameworks and began the development of institutions as the instruments of the real estate market. All this was followed the training of new staff and the introduction of certification and licensing instruments for professional real estate appraisers. The demands of the market are changing - instead of the typical socialist construction of buildings, a new modern way of constructing buildings is becoming prevalent. The newly formed Balkan countries make efforts to curb illegal construction by creating the institutional framework of a modern market economy, where investment in real estate as a form of capital has become more attractive and less risky for investors. The adoption of laws and by-laws in the field of spatial planning, real estate cadastre, real estate transactions, tax policy, and loan banking policy reversed the situation in the real estate market. The institutional framework has facilitated the development, increased security and created an environment that will speed up transaction procedures and help build an efficient real estate management system in the newly formed Balkan countries.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Using spaceborne lidar for snow depth retrievals: Best practices and recommendations for future studies
Creators: name: Fair, Zachary
name: Vuyovich, Carrie
name: Neumann, Tom
name: Pflug, Justin
name: Shean, David
name: Enderlin, Ellyn
name: Zikan, Karina
name: Lundquist, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Lidar is an effective tool to measure snow depth over key watersheds across the United States. Lidar-derived snow depth observations from airborne platforms have demonstrated centimeter-level accuracy at high spatial resolution. However, ground-based and airborne lidar surveys are costly and limited in space and time, so repeat observations over large spatial domains are infrequent. In recent years, there has been an emerging interest in using spaceborne lidar to estimate snow depth. Preliminary results from spaceborne lidar altimeters such as NASA’s Ice, Clouds, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) can provide routine snow depth retrievals over mid-latitude watersheds, though further research on accuracy, coverage, and operational potential is needed.

 

In this presentation, we outline the current status of research using spaceborne lidar to derive snow depth. We focus on the currently operational ICESat-2 mission, with a summary of snow observations gathered during the SnowEx 2022/2023 campaigns in Alaska. We also outline best practices for spaceborne lidar snow depth retrievals, based on findings from the SnowEx campaigns and recent studies. We conclude with a discussion of ongoing challenges for spaceborne lidar, with suggestions for future studies and requirements for future mission concepts.
Land use planning decisions using multi-criteria analysis: The case of the master plan for the western part of the coastal zone of Thessaloniki, Greece
Creators: name: Tasopoulou, Anastasia
name: Kiriakidou, Charikleia
name: Mpefas, Konstantinos
name: Michailidis, Konstantinos
name: Kiskini, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land use planning; Multi-criteria analysis; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Coastal zone; Thessaloniki

description: Land use planning decisions involve tackling complex problems and confronting multiple interests. A variety of factors and criteria need to be considered when planning for intricate and multifaceted environments, such as physical, social, economic, environmental, institutional etc. These factors which interact with each other, either in a complementary or conflicting way, cannot always be easily integrated into the decision-making process. Quantitative approaches such as Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques combined with GIS have been developed to conduct land suitability analysis and to support decision-making. Drawing on a completed project within the IPA Cross-Border Programme ‘Greece – the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2007-2013’ titled “Soil degradation assessment and rehabilitation strategies for sustainable land use planning“ (acronym TERRAMED), the paper presents the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s, to produce decision maps in order to define the suitability of future land uses in the western part of the coastal zone of Thessaloniki in Greece. The analyses and scenarios produced constituted the basis for the formulation of specific strategies and actions, within the broader process of developing a master plan for this particular area. The paper stresses the importance of MCDM methods in providing a rational framework for making consistent land use planning decisions, being able to improve the transparency of the planning processes and to contribute to consensus building on policies and actions.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Reconstructing Salome: Feminism and Biblical reconstruction in Tom Robbins' "Skinny Legs and All"
Creators: name: Colette, Shelly Carmen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.
subject: Women's Studies.

description: Tom Robbins' characterization of the New Testament figure of Salome in the novel Skinny Legs and All is a medley of historical and contemporary reconstructions. Drawn from biblical and early post-biblical discourses around the Salome narrative, and bearing a strong similarity to early Roman histories of the story of Lucius Flamininus, Robbins' Salome is implicitly constructed as a romantic feminist alternative to oppressive sexual norms in Western Christian culture. Robbins' implicit intention is to provide his readers with an alternative and liberatory interpretation of Salome and the Salome narrative. Examining Robbins' reconstruction from radical feminist perspective, however, I contend that his reconstruction reinforces the same oppressive sexual norms and values he is attempting to subdue. Using the theoretical and methodological models of feminist biblical scholars Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and Alice Bach, I employ a critical feminist literary-biblical analysis to evaluate Robbins' characterization Salome, with an emphasis on the models of divine female sexuality he advocates through his reconstruction of her character.