Geographers have recently sought to understand countryside change by examining economic restructuring and its impact on local social coherences. However, despite renewed interest in the locale, many investigations of the rural economy have been at a macro-scale. It is argued that this broad brush approach has neglected many important aspects of rural restructuring and, in particular, social and...

The small scale industries located at Mira Road, Mumbai, are engaged in various processes/operations which generate the wastes. The waste generated are collected and disposed of at the dumping ground near the industrial estate. In the present study, the physico-chemical and microbial status of the contaminated sites has been carried out. The heavy metal with special reference to copper was expo...

Under the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 as well as other international agreements, Thailand is currently in the process of adopting the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) through a pilot project in Rayong province with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This research aimed to st...

This paper presents the concepts and technology of GMN and its application in developing real estate management software. GMN abbreviating GIS+MIS+Network, is a new technology integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Management Information Systems (MIS) in the Internet environment. Previous real estate management software products which are mainly based on MIS cannot meet various es...

This study was conducted in metalwork and woodwork industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate. The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude of industrial noise exposure and to propose remedial actions. Noise was measured at different times of a day in 28 randomly selected factories and workshops. Results indicated that noise levels varied according to the type and size of a factory, and th...

Why are real estate bubbles so common? Can these bubbles actually do some good? Real estate booms have regularly occurred throughout the world leaving painful busts and financial crises in their wake. This paper suggests that real estate is a natural investment for more passive debt investors, including banks, because real estate’s flexibility makes it better collateral than specifically built ...

A PAIR OF HIGHER ORDER SYMMETRIC NONDIFFERENTIABLE MULTIOBJECTIVE MINI-MAXMIXED PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS Aruna Kumar Tripathy1 and Gayatri Devi2 1Department of Mathematics, Trident Academy of Technology, F2/A, Chandaka Industrial Estate, Bhubaneswar-24, Odisha, India, E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Mathematics, ABIT, Cuttack, Odisha, India, E-mail: [email protected]...

The study deals with the evaluation of the impact of heavy metal pollution on a Mediterranean natural ecosystem, and presents the results derived from a monitoring of heavy metals in different environmental matrixes (atmospheric dry depositions, suspended particulate matter (SPM) and stemflow of forest trees). Two sites in Castelporziano Presidential Estate (Rome), one internal and one near the...

A new version of the a multi-agent system to aid in real estate appraisal, called MAREA-2, was introduced. The system is being developed using Java Spring Framework and is intended for industrial application in cadastral information centres. The major part of the study was devoted to investigate the performance of Bagging, Subagging, and Repeated crossvalidation models. The overall result of ou...