Rapid urbanization has accelerated land use and land cover changes, and generated the urban heat island effect (UHI). Previous studies have reported positive effects of neighborhood landscapes on mitigating urban surface temperatures. However, the influence of neighborhood landscape spatial patterns on enhancing cooling effects has not yet been fully investigated. The main objective of this stu...

In this paper, a parallel hybrid heuristic is developed for the multicommodity capacitated location problem with balancing requirements. The hybrid involves variable neighborhood descent (VND) and slope scaling (SS). Both methods evolve in parallel within a master–slave architecture where the slave processes communicate through adaptive memories. Numerical results are reported on different type...

in this paper, the concept of countably near ps-compactness inl-topological spaces is introduced, where l is a completely distributive latticewith an order-reversing involution. countably near ps-compactness is definedfor arbitrary l-subsets and some of its fundamental properties are studied.

This note studies the relationship between Hutton's quasi-uniformities and Shi's quasi-uniformities. It is shown that when $L$ satisfies``multiple choice principle" for co-prime elements, the category of Hutton's quasi-uniform spaces is a bireflective full subcategory of the category of Shi's quasi-uniform spaces. Especially, if the remote-neighborhood mapping defined by Shi preserves arbitrary...

BACKGROUND Rates of obesity reach high levels in Chile, with geographic, social and school variations. AIM To identify factors at two levels associated with excessive weight in school children: child-family characteristics and school-neighborhood. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using a cross-sectional and multi-step design, seven counties with the highest prevalence of obesity were identified, and sc...

In this paper, we focus on Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography (GSHHG) database registration for remote sensing images taken from geostationary meteorological satellites. While the accuracy of feature matching is the key component. To improve it, we propose a neighborhood geometry-based feature matching scheme which includes three steps: neighborhood coding, verifica...

Coastal water regions represent some of the most fragile ecosystems, exposed to both climate change and human activities. While remote sensing provides unprecedented amounts of data for water quality monitoring on regional to global scales, the performance of satellite observations is frequently impeded by revisiting intervals and unfavorable conditions, such as cloud coverage and sun glint. Th...

In 3 visual word recognition experiments, the authors examined Ss' differential dependence on phonological versus orthographic information in accessing the lexicon. The critical manipulation was the presence or absence of pseudohomophones in the nonword context of a lexical decision task. Ss received a list with either no pseudohomophones (NPsH group) or 17%-30% pseudohomophones among the nonwo...

Zachary P. Neal and Jennifer Watling on preferences perceptions.