This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. Urbanisation in South Africa is a result of natural urban growth and (to a lesser extent) in-migration from within the country and across borders. This has led to the development ...

Today, most of the big cities or metropolises around the world have been encountering with the problem of informal habitation. The present study, thus, tries to focus on the role of endogenous development in such type of habitation process. For that matter, the paper takes into account architectural programming and urbanism as its theoretical framework because the endogenous development is rela...

This paper explains why learning to solve constraint problems is so difficult, and describes a set of methods that has been effective on a broad variety of problem classes. The primary focus is on learning an effective search algorithm as a weighted subset of ordering heuristics. Experiments show the impact of several novel techniques on a variety of problems. When a planning problem is cast as...

The aim of phishing is tracing the users' s private information without their permission by designing a new website which mimics the trusted website. The specialists of information technology do not agree on a unique definition for the discriminative features that characterizes the phishing websites. Therefore, the number of reliable training samples in phishing detection problems is limited. M...

Are you worried about the climate and biodiversity crises related events like heavy rainfalls floods, high carbon emissions, sudden heat waves, or loss of species? already doing something to help solve these problems? To reduce flood risks, we can give rivers more space by reconnecting floodplains. store slow down change, protect establish wetlands mangroves. make cities cooler in summer, plant...

This paper presents a new method for defining grid-point adjacencies, called the switch approach. It is discussed how it relates to connectedness definition in multi-valued images. The paper illustrates how the method can be used, and provides a few experimental data illustrating the relevance and simplicity of the approach. 1 Center for Image Technology and Robotics Tamaki Campus, The Universi...