This paper explores residential and job location patterns and commuting behavior in a monocentric urban model with decentralized employment. We show that, in some cases, identical households choose different residential rings depending on their workers’ job locations. This means that high-income households whose workers work near the central business district (CBD) may choose residential locati...

The concept of component-based development (CBD) is widely practiced in software (SW) development. CBD is based on reuse of the existing components with the new ones. The objective of this paper is to propose a novel process model for CBD. Importance of repository has also been discussed. A survey has been conducted to evaluate the proposed model. The results of the survey show that proposed pr...

The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing is the latest protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Its implementation can lead to two fundamentally different processes: a market-oriented self-regulatory approach, which emphasizes the self-regulating capacity of the economic actors involved, or a normative institutionalist approach, which focuses on the norms and formal ru...

Component Based Software Development (CBD) holds high promises, but develops its full potential only when software components are traded in a component market. The Internet seems ideal for this purpose and various sources have predicted a bright future for the Internet Software Component Market (SCM). However, very little is known about the current status, structure and trends within the SCM. T...

Industrial agricultural production in the tropics is known to have adverse social and environmental impacts (CBD, 2010). Firms —especially the ones exposed to consumer preference, such as retailers, processors and consumer goods manufacturers—are increasingly responding to these concerns. Nations in the tropics have established comprehensive political, legal and institutional frameworks to cons...

Public participation is very important to the success for urban planning projects. This study tries to establish two different systems, the 3-dimensional digital model and the 360 panoramic QTVR photos models, to simulate the feasibility and effectiveness of the participants' experiences feedback got from both environments, by the case study area of Hangzhou CBD, Zhejiang Province, China. This ...

Case-based design (CBD) overcomes certain dficulties associated with traditional knowledge-based design systems. When novel designs are created by adapting cases, design integrity can be maintained through careful formulation of adaptation procedures. We describe a prototype design system called case adaptation by dimensionality reasoning (CADRE). Geometrical information is treated through simu...

Nanocrystalline cadmium sulfide thin films as antireflection materials for solar cells have been prepared by a new chemical solution deposition route in an aqueous medium at 50 °C. as-deposited thin films were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and optical absorption spectra. X-ray diffraction data indicated the formation of hexagonal na...

Industrial agricultural production in the tropics is known to have adverse social and environmental impacts (CBD, 2010). Firms —especially the ones exposed to consumer preference, such as retailers, processors and consumer goods manufacturers—are increasingly responding to these concerns. Nations in the tropics have established comprehensive political, legal and institutional frameworks to cons...

COTS-based development (CBD) raises a spectrum of issues, from requirements negotiation to product selection and product integration. The studies on this topic are often in disagreement, lack details about products and projects, and are based on uncritically-accepted assumptions. This was confirmed by an analysis of the literature from which we derived a list of characterizing features for CBD....