This work focuses on adapting artificial intelligence techniques for urban growth modeling using multitemporal imagery. Fuzzy set theory and cellular automata are used for this purpose. Fuzzy set theory preserves the spatial continuity of the growth process through allowing a test pixel to be partially developed unlike the binary crisp system (developed/undeveloped). The development level ident...

A new solution for large-scale scheduling in the steelmaking industry, called Finishing Line Scheduling (FLS), is described. FLS in a major steel mill is a task to create production campaigns (specific production runs) for steel coils on four continuous processes for a one-month horizon. Two process flows are involved in FLS, and the balancing of the two process flows requires resolving conflic...

OBJECTIVE The Canada-China Yunnan Maternal and Child Health Project (1997-2003) sought to improve the quality of village life and promote development of productivity and social prosperity in Yunnan province, China. PARTICIPANTS The project targeted grassroots maternal and child health workers: new and in-service village doctors; traditional village midwives; doctors at township health centres...

There is growing concern over the double burden of over- and under-nutrition in individuals, especially in children and adolescents, which could dwarf their growth and development. This study aims to explore the rural-urban difference in BMI and anemia among children and adolescents. A stratified cluster sampling technique was employed. Dietary data were collected through interviews, and anthro...

1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America 2Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America 3Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America 4Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins Univ...

From 1978 to 1982, 117 cases of Lyme disease were reported in New Jersey. The number of cases increased each year from four in 1978 and 1979 to 56 in 1982. Forty-eight percent of cases occurred in a four-township area in central Monmouth County. The proportion of cases with arthritis decreased in 1982 because of early antibiotic treatment and better reporting of milder cases. The proportion of ...

The focus of the article is on writing history community theatre, which was a popular avenue for artistic expression number township playwrights. During period 1984–1994, there flowering arts in Soweto. Numerous plays were staged, but this has not been documented due to lack record-keeping by playwrights and absence formal theatre structures township-based In contemporary writing, received atte...

This paper describes an on-going work on the development and implementation of cellular automata based urban growth modeling using multitemporal satellite imagery. The algorithm is designed to simulate the historical growth as a function of local neighbourhood structure of the input data. Transition rules in the algorithm drive the urban growth over time. Calibration is introduced in the cellul...