Trends in and Perceptions on Urbanisation

Trends in World Urbanisation

Almost two and a half billion people representing 45 per cent of the world's population live in urban areas. In 1990,37 per cent of the developing world's population lived in urban areas and about one third of the urban population in the developing countries lived in urban slums and shanty towns. In 1990, more than 75 per cent of all South Americans were living in urban areas, the highest degre...

Trends and processes of urbanisation in India

On urbanisation and birds

Urbanisation of natural habitats is rapidly intensifying and poses a potential global threat for wildlife. Thus, it is important to explore its impact on wildlife in order to understand the present and future threats and how resilient organisms are to them. Although many species decline in abundance or even disappear once an area is urbanised, some species, populations and/or individuals are ab...

in translation: translators on their work and what it means

کتاب در باب ترجمه، اثر استر آلن و سوزان برنوفسکی منتشر شده در ماه می 2013 توسط نشریه کلمبیا است. نویسندگان در این کتاب به بررسی 18 مترجم با در نظر گرفتن نقش آثاری که این مترجمان ترجمه کرده اند میپردازند. کتاب به دو بخش تقسیم میشود: " مترجم در جهان" و " کار مترجم" این دو بخش مقالات همیشگی ترجمه و موقعیت خاص ادبیات بیگانه در جهان وسیع امروزی را مورد خطاب قرار میدهد. در این کتاب مقالات متعددی از ن...

Speckle Reduction in Echocardiography: Trends and Perceptions

Speckle is the fine-grained texture-like pattern seen in echocardiography, and indeed in all modalities of clinical ultrasound. The application of various image processing techniques to ultrasonography has been explored in the literature, and a common goal is the reduction or removal of the speckle component while preserving image structure. This assumes that speckle is a form of noise which is...