The growing trend of rural waste generated in the country requires careful considerations about rural waste management and emphasizes its role in preserving the environment. Due to the large number of villages and small amount of the rural waste, collecting rural waste needs spatial planning so that it could cover a vaster area through economic and shared use of equipments. The main goal of the...

1. SUMMARY The New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) conducted a health outcomes review for the Village of Victor because of concerns about health effects from chemicals in the Village water supply before 1990. A health outcomes review examines a particular group of people as a whole to see how it compares to a group not living in the area of concern. It cannot link an environmental exp...

Due to a growing consensus of the inadequacy of the current mental health system in rural Alaska, an assessment of mental health strengths and needs was conducted in two Eskimo villages. Respondents were 216 Eskimos who completed a structured interview. Results document perceptions of problems and strengths unique to the village cultures and settings. To increase effectiveness, programs must ta...

gel sefid village is in mashayekh village in central part of ardal city of chahar mahal and bakhtiari province. in the research, quickbird satellite image in google earth software was used to introduce the landscape of this village and to recognize the whole human uses and natural spots in the study area. then the resulting map was transferred to arcgis 3.1 software and the area land use map wa...

More and more schools are facing the challenge of preserving local community’s culture while preparing the citizens of the “global village”. In this paper we discuss how communityware can support schools in facing this new challenge. In particular, we describe the experience of a school in Venice, Italy, with the adoption of Campiello, a system supporting the exchange of information among commu...

This study examines the sources of geographic variance in commercial Internet use. Until now, two opposing views have been argued on the relationship between Internet technology and economic agglomeration. One view, which we term global village theory, asserts that Internet technology helps lower communication costs and break down geographic boundaries between firms. The other view, labeled urb...

Column " Once upon a time there was a small village... " This is the beginning of many stories about brave and virtuous people that usually end with the sentence, " and they lived happily ever after. " The " fairy tale " that is going to be told here has not come to an end yet, although many people work and strive for it. Surprising? No! Let the story be told from the beginning. Once upon a tim...

Knowledge of mosquito dispersal is critical for vector-borne disease control and prevention strategies and for understanding population structure and pathogen dissemination. We determined Aedes aegypti flight range and dispersal patterns from 21 mark-release-recapture experiments conducted over 11 years (1991-2002) in Puerto Rico and Thailand. Dispersal was compared by release location, sex, ag...

In the current military environment, village searches are conducted daily. To accomplish a village search task in accordance with orders provided by higher headquarters, the mission leaders must plan and allocate resources (e.g., soldiers, robots, military working dogs, unmanned aerial vehicles) efficiently. The plans these leaders create are based on personal experience and planning data found...