A spatial analysis of a large 20th century urban settlement (town/city) easily presents the celebrated central Business District (CBD). Theories of Urban Land Economics have easily justified and attempted to explain the existence of such a district activity area within the cityscape. This work examines the gradual emergence and development of the CBD in Lafia Town, Nigeria over 20 years and the...

Conventional OO methodologies have t o p r o vide a well-deened Component based development CBD process by which the community of software engineers could properly derive executable software components from requirements in a systematic way. The move t o ward CBD requires existing OO conceptual modeling approaches to be reconsidered. In this paper we present a proposal to support CBD in an OO Me...

This paper develops a stochastic search model having a monocentric city structure and investigates how city structure affects workers’ job acceptance behavior and a labor market. In the model, workers reside in a city and commute to the Central Business District (CBD) to work when employed and to be interviewed when unemployed. When a job searcher contacts a firm having a vacant job, he/she obs...

This study applied logistic regression to model urban growth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area of Georgia in a GIS environment and to discover the relationship between urban growth and the driving forces. Historical land use/cover data of Atlanta were extracted from the 1987 and 1997 Landsat TM images. Multi-resolution calibration of a series of logistic regression models was conducted from 50 m...

Since its implementation of economic reforms and open door policy, China has rapidly transformed itself from a socialist planned economy to socialist market economy. Guangzhou and Shanzhen are earmarked as the pioneering and experimental cities within the network of cities in Pearl River Delta Region in implementing various market reform measures. Taking advantage of its close proximity with Ho...

The CAPRi Program is one of several Inter-Center Initiatives of the CGIAR and aims to promote comparative research on the role played by property and collective action institutions in shaping the efficiency, sustainability, and equity components of natural resource systems. CAPRi Working Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in ...

For CBD, a component is much more than a subroutine in a modular programming approach, an object or class in an object-oriented system, or a package in a system model. In CBD the notion of a component both subsumes and expands on those ideas. A component is used as the basis for design, implementation, and maintenance of component-based systems. For now we will assume a rather broad, general no...

Studies of indigenous ecological knowledge are getting attention not only among resource managers, policy-planners and Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) but also within and among local and indigenous communities themselves. During modernization, many of these communities have realized the threat of knowledge erosion and are attempting to take control of such knowledge, whi...

CBD (Component Based Development) methodology is a cost effective software development paradigm in which encapsulated software modules are assembled via interface to perform required functions. The CBD process directly applicable to general software development projects in conjunction with UML (Unified Modeling Language) based OOD (object-oriented development) methodology. However, special proj...

The present research develops a model to treat the organization, growth, and contraction of network elements. The components of the model include travel demand, revenue, cost, and investment. Revenue earned by links in excess of maintenance costs is invested on the link until all revenue is consumed. After upgrading (or downgrading) each link in the network, the time period is incremented and t...