The term “carsharing” refers to a distinct business process wherein CSOs typically provide their members with short-term vehicle access from a network of unstaffed and distributed neighborhood locations. Members pay a flat hourly or per mile fee, or both, that includes fuel and insurance costs. These characteristics make carsharing distinct from car rental, through which vehicles are borrowed u...

Obesity results from a complex interaction between diet, physical activity, and the environment. The built environment encompasses a range of physical and social elements that make up the structure of a community and may influence obesity. This review summarizes existing empirical research relating the built environment to obesity. The Medline, PsychInfo, and Web of Science databases were searc...

Context As obesity has become increasingly widespread, scientists seek better ways to assess and modify built and social environments to positively impact health. The applicable methods and concepts draw on multiple disciplines and require collaboration and cross-learning. This paper describes the results of an expert team׳s analysis of how key disciplinary perspectives contribute to environmen...

This paper deals with Hybrid multisite testing of VLSI chips by utilizing automatic test equipment (ATE) in connection with built-in self-test (BIST). The performance of a multisite testing process is analyzed using device-under-test (DUT) parameters (such as yield and average number of faults per DUT) as well as test process features (such as number of channels, coverage and touchdown time for...

The built environment, urban processes, and experience all work together to create the spatial environment of a city. Many spaces, especially those that appear be ‘leftover’, do not reflect set concept but are constantly questioned recreated. Recognizing leftover spaces in an is important aspect redevelopment process. Researchers have highlighted difficulties, circumstances, relevance making go...

IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative is a multi-disciplined approach that integrates the key tenets of the IMSCI 2014 (The 8 International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics) conference [1]. Industry has seen a tremendous explosion of data growth. Organizations that dealt with Terabytes (TB) and Petabytes (PB) just a couple of years ago are now faced with the challenge of deal...