Street trees and urban woodlands provide a number of environmental and social benefits, including contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation and providing urban green space. This Note presents the results of a review of three approaches to estimating the amenity value of street trees: CAVAT, Helliwell and i-Tree. The review showed that the three valuation systems differ significan...

This meeting was embedded within the prestigious Prince Mahidol Award Conference series. At the same time, the 1 st Global Conference on Regional Surveillance Networks, the Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation and many specific side meetings, were held. In total, there were 966 invited participants from 73 countries, representing academics, governments (including public health...

New technologies, products, and services are brought to market every year by small entrepreneurs. The heart valve, safety razor, and soft contact lens are just a few examples. One common thread ties all successful entrepreneurs together—innovation. Innovation brings something new or unusual to the marketplace, and in the process sharpens competitiveness and creates wealth. New firms, new produc...

T he process of mapping the Earth accurately was, until recently, the preserve of highly skilled, wellequipped, and organized individuals and groups. For many years, it was usually the role of surveyors, cartographers, and geographers to map the world and transcribe it on paper or, since the 1960s, into the computer. Lewis and Clark’s expedition to map North America’s West, and Lambton and Ever...

We present an algorithm for finding a distance optimal rendezvous location with respect to both initial and target locations of two mobile agents. These agents can be humans or robots, who need to meet and split while performing a collaborative task. Our aim is to embed the meeting process within a background activity such that the agents travel through the same rendezvous location while taking...

In terms of its perceived threat to society, street racing seems to have fallen somewhere between regular traffic offences and car theft. Yet it has little in common with either. So far as I am aware, street racing has not been analysed by previous writers. Thus, not surprisingly, most theories have little to offer such an analysis. The key argument made in this article is that the norms of str...

We leverage semantic technologies and Cytoscape.js to create a provenance-aware, probabilistic analysis platform for systems biology and evaluate its usefulness in discovering links between drugs and diseases. A number of databases have been developed that serve as a patchwork across the landscape of systems biology, each focused on different experimental methods, many species, and a wide diver...

Background: Contaminated handmade street foods are often claimed to occur food-borne diseases, especially in developing countries. Therefore, considering the public health issue, this study was conducted to assess the microbial contamination of handmade sauce used by street food vendors in Jashore, Bangladesh. Methods: A total of 30 samples of Plum Sauce (PS) and Tomato Sauce (TS) were collect...