This article examines the microgeographies of everyday life in Parque Central and Plaza de la Cultura, two plazas located in the central city of San José, Costa Rica. These locales are created by the individual temporal and spatial attributes of plaza users whose daily movements and activities define these spaces. The growing differences of these locales in terms of the users’ class, gender, an...

PLAZA (https://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/plaza) is a plant-oriented online resource for comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. The PLAZA platform consists of multiple independent instances focusing on different plant clades, while also providing access to a consistent set of reference species. Each PLAZA instance contains structural and functional gene annotations, gene family dat...

The city of Biskra is known by its hot and arid climate; outdoor spaces know extremely high temperatures during the summer period, which affect thermal comfort, well-being, user’s satisfaction in public spaces, such as "Revolution’s plaza" considerable attendance a particular design. This study, focuses on role urban vegetation regulation open space. main purpose to study effect microclimate th...

In this paper we show how based on a number of different techniques it is possible to fully automatically generate basic ingredients for high quality visualizations of urban areas characterized by vertical facade planes from nothing but uncalibrated wide-baseline image sequences without using any markers or ground control. At the core of our algorithms are least-squares matching, projective geo...

Mohammad H. Asghari and Bahram Jalali Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 420 West...

This research purposes to develop practical tools to evaluate the effects of ETC (Electric Toll Collection) system on road networks. In this paper, the analytical methodology to evaluate the capacity of toll plaza with ETC is proposed at first. Subsequently, two exiting simulation models, AVENUE and SOUND, are extended to estimate the total effects of ETC on road networks. After these two model...

The microscopic simulation of traffic operations at a toll plaza entails the detailed understanding of the driver behavior. The lane selection behavior of the driver involves complex inter-vehicle dynamics. This study involves the development of a new methodology for the microscopic simulation of toll plaza operations. Different driver dynamics such as the lane selection probability based on th...

Human chlamydiosis is a zoonotic disease of avian origin caused by Chlamydia psittaci. The highest infection rates have been detected in parrots (Psittacidae) and pigeons (Columbiformes), the latter most frequently carry the genotypes B and E. These genotypes have been shown to also infect humans. Because pigeons (Columba livia) cohabit with humans in urban areas, C. psittaci present in the dus...