The urban heat island is a representative climate characteristic, which can affect heat-stress conditions and extreme precipitation that are closely connected with human life. Better understanding of urban-climate interactions, therefore, crucial to ultimately support better planning adaptation in various application fields. This study assesses interactions during summer for eastern North Ameri...

Research methodology This case study draws on interviews conducted with officials from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), City Woonsocket and Town North Smithfield. Additionally, it pulls relevant legal documents, recordings minutes meetings Council Smithfield Council, resolutions, state legislation local press coverage. Case overview/synopsis From 2012–2017, communi...

Tropospheric radio wave signals experience loss due to multipath effect, scattering and other forms of attenuation through the atmospheric medium, primarily variations in weather conditions with time. The knowledge surface refractivity profile is important for optimal planning Very High Frequency/Ultra Frequency (VHF/UHF) terrestrial links a region. study (Ns) over North-Central Nigeria was car...

When entrepreneurs enter “structural holes” in information networks, they can make a profit by exploiting the access and control benefits that these provide. That is Ronald Burt’s 13-year-old argument. Ever since, evidence for the suggested advantages from the occupancy of strategic network positions has steadily accumulated. What has not been shown, however, is whether those who strive for suc...

AIM To prospectively evaluate peripheral visual fields after vitrectomy for idiopathic macular holes. METHODS Goldmann perimetry was performed in 105 patients before, as well as 6 weeks and 12 months after macular hole surgery. RESULTS Only one patient (< 1%) with a stage III macular hole developed an asymptomatic postoperative visual field defect. The scotoma was wedge-shaped, peripherally...

Despite almost thirty years of research in the area of telework, the findings regarding outcomes remain equivocal (Bailey and Kurland, 2002). This research in progress hopes to advance understanding by identifying a key mechanism by which telework affects performance, specifically its influence on the social network properties of cohesion, power and structural holes. With knowledge of how the n...