This paper discusses the impact of new media on local politics and politicians in a highly digitalised advanced democracy. Through case studies interviews elite representatives three Norwegian municipalities, paper's ambition is to gain further understanding use at political level how influence shape role representatives. To this aim we engage with established literature campaigns as self-promo...

We examine the characteristics of individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. identify demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality-level agricultural endowments Brazil. find that firm creation response is mostly driven young and skilled individuals. The these responsive are significantly different from those average economy. By struc...

Meta-heuristic algorithms inspired by the natural processes are part of the optimization algorithms that they have been considered in recent years, such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, Firefly algorithm. Recently, a new kind of evolutionary algorithm has been proposed that it is inspired by the human sociopolitical evolution process. This new algorith...

Background: The mechanisms underlying cerebral hypercapnic vasodilatation are not fully understood. Objective: To investigate the role of nitric oxide (NO) and ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels in basal blood flow regulation and hypercapnia-induced vasodilatation in rabbit cerebral blood vessels. Methods: The change in cerebral blood flow was measured by a laser Doppler flowmeter in 18 Ne...

introduction traditional knowledge (tk), indigenous knowledge (ik), traditional ecological knowledge (tek) and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. traditional knowledge includes types of knowledge about traditional technologies of subsistence (e.g. tools and techniques for hunting or agriculture)...

The use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is becoming more common in different landscape exploration domains such as archaeology or geomorphology. In order to allow the detection features interest, visualization filters have be applied raw Digital Elevation Model (DEM), enhance small relief variations. Several been proposed for this purpose, Sky View Factor, Slope, negative positive Openne...