introduction cities and neighborhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades and have lost their quality in many aspects. due to poor planning and governance at the regional and urban design on physical function, rapid growth of large-scale migrations and inefficient policies and procedures in dealing with urban neighborhoods neglected urban neighborhoods as w...

We present two heuristic methods for solving the Discrete Ordered Median Problem (DOMP), for which no such approaches have been developed so far. The DOMP generalizes classical discrete facility location problems, such as the p-median, p-center and Uncapacitated Facility Location problems. The first procedure proposed in this paper is based on a genetic algorithm developed by Moreno Vega [MV96]...

Let M be a compact C1 manifold which is invariant and normally hyperbolic with respect to a C1 semiflow in a Banach space. Then in an -neighborhood of M there exist local C1 center-stable and center-unstable manifolds W cs( ) and W cu( ), respectively. Here we show that W cs( ) and W cu( ) may each be decomposed into the disjoint union of C1 submanifolds (leaves) in such a way that the semiflow...

Extracting an effective facial feature representation is the critical task for automatic expression recognition system. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) known to be a popular texture recognition. However, only few approaches utilize relationship between local neighborhood pixels itself. This paper presents Hybrid Texture Descriptor (HLTD) which derived from logical fusion of Neighborhood XNOR Pattern...

The purpose of this study is to assess whether the existing signals in three European cities were developed according usability principles and ergonomic aspects for the citizen. City maps and signals will be tested using efficiency, effectiveness and user's satisfaction criteria. Among the urban areas are the center of Paris-FR, assumed to be well signalized, the historical center of Guimarães-...

Most of the residents’ daily travel is concentrated within their 15-min walking distance. In China, derived from city concept, walkable area often referred to as pedestrian-scale neighborhood, and it has become a basic planning unit. Understanding factors that influence built environment neighborhood on carbon emissions critical reduce urban emissions. There may be spatial heterogeneity in depe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are associated with progressive age-related cognitive decline and cardiovascular risk factors, but their biological relevance as indicators of generalized white matter injury is unclear. Diffusion tensor imaging provides more sensitive indications of subtle white matter disruption and can therefore clarify whether WMHs represent foci o...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood deprivation has been shown in many studies to be an influential factor in cardiovascular disease risk. However, no previous studies have examined the effect of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions on the risk of stroke in Asian countries. METHODS This study investigated whether neighborhood deprivation was associated with the risk of stroke and stroke death using data...

Using multilevel analysis we find that residents of "stressed" neighborhoods have higher levels of depression than residents of less "stressed" neighborhoods. Data for individuals are from two cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey, a national probability sample of 56,428 adults living in 25 Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada, with linked information about the respondents' census tract...