Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems: concepts from COST 715 B. Fisher, J. Kukkonen, M. Piringer, M. W. Rotach, and M. Schatzmann Environment Agency, Kings Meadow House, Reading RG1 8DQ, UK Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20 E, 00 880 Helsinki, Finland Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Vienna, Austria Swiss...

Impact of phosphorus control measures on in-river phosphorus retention associated with point source pollution B. O. L. Demars, D. M. Harper, J.-A. Pitt, and R. Slaughter The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom Environment Agency, Station Road, Haddiscoe, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an important technology supporting e-commerce systems and online marketing, enabling content owners and market intermediaries to securely manage and deliver digital content. In addition, P2P (peer-to-peer) networks play a pro-motive role in e-commerce. However, it facilitates illegal access to copyrighted media which may cause a violation of content owners’ ri...

One of the most significant parts integrating computer technologies into intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is vehicle license plate recognition (VLPR). In cases, however, to recognize a successfully, location be determined first. Vehicle License Plate Recognition are used by law enforcement agencies, traffic management control and various government non-government agencies. VLPR in comme...

During the Pahlavi era, Iran's widespread developments influenced by the industrial revolution led to a lot of changes in family structure and by changing the function of family and the roles and relations of family members, paved the way for a change in the houses' spatial organization. Therefore, the main question addressed in this study is: “"What changes are brought about in the space organ...

Ancient or canonical sex chromosome pairs consist of a gene rich X (or Z) chromosome and a male(or female-) limited Y (or W) chromosome that is gene poor. In contrast to highly differentiated sex chromosomes, nascent sex chromosome pairs are homomorphic or very similar in sequence content. Nascent sex chromosomes arise frequently over the course of evolution, as evidenced by differences in sex ...