ABSTRACT A vibrant and commercially active center is often the result of interesting, diverse building styles and or built-forms, pedestrian density along with variety of quality public places where people feel comfortable, spending time and shopping items for domestic and commercial functions in cities like Addis Ababa. The scale and design of buildings, pedestrian density, and other phy...

Vote-tabulation audits can be used to collect evidence that the set of winners (the outcome) of an election according to the machine count is correct—that it agrees with the outcome that a full hand count of the audit trail would show. The strength of evidence is measured by the p-value of the hypothesis that the machine outcome is wrong. Smaller p-values are stronger evidence that the outcome ...

Waste is a symbol of inefficiency in modern society and represents misallocated resources. This paper outlines an on-going interdisciplinary research project entitled ―Integrated ETWW demand forecasting and scenario planning for low-carbon precincts‖ and reports on first findings and a literature review. This large multi-stakeholder research project develops a shared platform for integrated ETW...

Scientists and politicians are reaching consensus that elections must be countable independently of the need to trust any particular computer software, whether that software is in a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine or in an optical scanner. Public trust in elections requires a Voter-Verified Paper Ballot (VVPB), either a voter-viewable printout from a DRE machine or (even better...

Scientists and politicians are reaching consensus that elections must be countable independently of the need to trust the computer software in a DRE voting machine or in an optical scanner. Public trust in elections requires a Voter-Verified Paper Ballot (VVPB), printed by a DRE or scanned by a scanner. But producing the VVPBs is not enough; to do any good they must also be audited. A recount o...

Differential police conduct may be attributed both to residential racial segregation and more general discriminatory attitudes policies. We draw upon ethnographic other studies of everyday policing propose that police, in the context racially segregated neighborhoods, intensively surveil individuals who are “out place” terms their race local geographical which they found. then use statistical e...

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising tool to anticipate potential viral outbreaks not only at city-scale but also precincts-scale or even buildings.

This note proposes a cute little heuristic method of generating a uniformly distributed pseudo-random number between 0 and 1 for each precinct in an election, for use in selecting a sample of precincts for a post-election audit. A function f is described that takes as input a 15-digit “seed” S and a six-digit precinct number i, and produces a pseudo-random output xi = fS(i) between 0 and 1. The...