This paper describes and evaluates the background, methodology and successful application of a historic landscape characterisation project undertaken between 1999 and 2000 in Lancashire (NW England). It begins with a description of the need and context for the project, from the perspective of English Heritage as a part of a national programme, from the viewpoint of Lancashire County Council who...

The study intended to analyze the optimum solution to enhance utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to the grassroots community in Dodoma Municipal Council (DMC) in Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were to: identify the availability and use of ICT infrastructures for service delivery at grassroots level; identify possible Local Government Authorit...

Amajor effort to establish “scientifically-based research” (SBR) in education has been under way for some time (Feuer, Towne, & Shavelson, 2002). Key manifestations of this effort are found in the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization and reorganization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement as the Institute for Educational Science (Eisenhart & Towne, 2003). The most d...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: R14 R52 Keywords: R14 Land use patterns R52 Land use and other regulations This paper expands empirical testing of the predictions of the standard monocentric urban model to examine the size of urban spatial expansion for all US metropolitan regions for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000. Until recently, the lack of temporally and spatially-consistently inte...

A nurse residency program's best practice recommendations are presented within this article and are organized around three processes: establishing the program infrastructure, creating a multistaged evidence-based program, and sustaining the program through appropriate evaluation and dissemination of results. These recommendations represent lessons learned and key findings derived from a team of...

It is a great pleasure for me to attend the Fourth Annual Forum on City Informatization in the Asian-Pacific Region while having this opportunity to exchange views with the distinguished guests. IT Promotes Development, the theme of the annual forum which fully reveals the significance of sustainable development of informatization and its role in the development. This is a theme which attracts ...

In fault-tolerant components reaIized using replication, severai alternate results are produce d, from which a single correct result must be derived. This is done by a mechanism, that we call an adjudicator Ca concept more generaI than a voter), which uses as its inputs the individuaI results produced by the replicated subcomponents comprising the redundant component. This paper gives a rigouro...