The need for a more balanced spatial growth pattern in Karnataka is shown by applying Zipf's law to the Indian State of Karnataka, with the result demonstrating Bangalore's increasing urban primacy. The authors review the literature on promote more equitably distributed growth, primarily the European...

These results are used to derive policy implications and directions for future research....

The abundance of data and importance of knowledge extraction to foresee the future has made time dependent data analysis an inevitable and challenging task in all areas of science and engineering. High dimensionality and the presence of noise in the non–linear time–series data makes it difficult...

CALEBRE, a four year research project, is developing technologies to improve the energy efficiency of solid–walled housing in the UK, particularly in the owner occupied market. The engineering partners within the project require very specific information from user–centred design (UCD) practitione...

All runways used by civil aircraft are classified according to their strength and they are given a load classification number (LCN) or single wheel loading (SWL) of its weakest point. Currently, the load bearing strength of a runway is reported using empirical approaches recommended by the Internatio...

We present six design rules that can be used to deliberately prepare nine distinct colloidal crystal structures, with control over lattice parameters on the 25- to 150-nanometer length scale. These design rules outline a strategy to independently adjust each of the relevant crystallographic paramete...

We reported quite distorted spectra obtained with Varian Unity INOVA spectrometers (at 11.4 and 14.1T) in several exploratory wide bandwidth (14)N MAS NMR studies of inorganic nitrates and amino acids. These spectra have now been compared/evaluated with fully analyzed (14)N MAS spectra corresponding...

In this paper, a model predictive control scheme with guaranteed closed-loop asymptotic stability is proposed for a class of constrained nonlinear time-delay systems with discrete and distributed delays. A suitable terminal cost functional and also an appropriate terminal region are...

The safety performance of left-side off-ramps was evaluated by comparing that of right-side off-ramps at freeway diverge areas. Crash records at a total of 11 left-side and 63 similar right-side diverge areas in Florida were collected. Based on the data collected, the traffic conflict study and the c...