Although previous research has supported the view that neo-traditional or new urbanist designs result in more walking activity, several questions remain: Do residents of these neighborhoods substitute walking for driving trips, or do they make more trips overall? What is the role of self-selection of residents in these developments? This paper aims to address these questions by examining differ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the most common frequency of food-purchasing patterns and relate this pattern to characteristics of individuals and families. DESIGN A customer-intercept survey was conducted in the greater Houston area, Texas, USA, in 2002. The frequency of food shopping at supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants to buy food for eating at home was assessed. SUBJECTS A total ...

BACKGROUND One of the major causes of social exclusion for people with developmental disability (PDD) is the inability to access different activities due to inadequate transportation services. OBJECTIVE This research paper identifies transportation needs, and reasons for unmet, but desired untaken trips of adults with developmental disabilities in Hennepin County, Minnesota. We hypothesize th...

We studied the foraging behaviour of endangered Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) to examine general foraging patterns, sex differences in foraging behaviour, and the reasons for incidental catches in fishing nets. Humboldt penguins foraged diurnally and typically made short, shallow dives within 30 m of the surface. Males and females made overnight (lasting 25.8 ± 3.4 h; mean ± SD) and ...

granting of intellectual property rights on biological materials could be very contentious issue from cultural, legal, ethical and religious points of view. this could be even more complicated, once it acquires an international dimension. the agreement on trade related intellectual property rights (trips) is the latest international arrangement under which, a complex structure for international...

Diminishing performance gains in conventional architectures are driving modern architectures to exploit parallelism more effectively. Next-generation architectures hold promise in the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) arena where high performance and power efficiency are equally important. To better identify optimization techniques on these emerging new architectures, we optimized and evaluated a...

The current transportation sector in the United States is heavily relied on private automobile, consuming a large amount of fuel energy and producing a large quantity of greenhouse gases. Shared mobility, such as ridesharing and bikesharing, could potentially improve urban sustainability by decreasing the total vehicle-miles, saving fuel energy and reducing greenhouse gases. This research proje...