The purpose of this study was to clarify the level residents' awareness parks, usage patterns and frequency use during COVID-19 pandemic. As case Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. method a questionnaire survey determine satisfaction with their quality life expectations for new green policies about Green Infrastructure (GI) Park-Private Finance Initiative (Park-PFI). five factors extracted by fac...

The Skynet 5 system will provide military satellite communications to all three UK armed services, and is to be procured as a ‘private finance initiative’ (PFI). Though there are many PFI projects across all parts of the public sector, this is the first time that such an approach has been taken for providing military satellite communications. On 26 February 2002, the Ministry of Defence announc...

In this paper, nonlinear behavior of strengthened steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) by FRP laminates theoretically and numerically has been investigated. In the first part, a new method, “the composite-plate frame Interaction (C-PFI) method”, has been introduced to predict the shear behavior of the composite steel plate shear wall systems (CSPSWs). In the second part, several models of one-story ...

In recent years, there are a great deal of efforts on sequential pattern mining, but some challenges have not been resolved, such as large search spaces and the ineffectiveness in handling highly similar, dense and long sequences. This paper mainly focuses on how to design some effective search space pruning methods to accelerate the mining process. We present a novel structure, PrefixFrequent-...

ZEKE-PFI (zero kinetic energy pulsed field ionization) photoelectron spectra of the Na(H 20), Na(D20), Na(NH 3), and Na(ND3) complexes are reported. Spectra of all four complexes were obtained by single-photon ionization, and, for the Na(NH 3) and Na(ND3) complexes, by two-color (I+ I') photoionization as well, with the A E state serving as the intermediate resonance. Improved values for the io...

The focus of this paper is improving individual Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects to deliver better value for the benefit of the partners in PFI. Signing long term contracts of 20 to 30 years with the private sector typically enlarges demand risks in PFI. Subsequently, this report seeks a way to deliver more valuable PFI projects by the effective management of demand risks. Incorporatio...

Tongchuan City, located in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, has limited groundwater resources. Rational planning and exploitation of are crucial to the sustainable development city, for which investigating distribution is premise. Traditional resistivity sounding methods often used detect groundwater; however, these not applicable study area where thick Quaternary loess extensively distribute...

Conventional four-legged intersections are inefficient under heavy traffic requirements and prone to congestion problems. Unconventional with innovative designs allow for more efficient operations can increase the capacity of intersection, in some cases. Common unconventional include upstream signalized crossover intersection (USC), continuous flow (CFI), parallel (PFI). At present, an increasi...

Executive response functions can be affected by preceding events, even if they are no longer associated with the current task at hand. For example, studies utilizing the stop signal task have reported slower response times to "GO" stimuli when the preceding trial involved the presentation of a "STOP" signal. However, the neural mechanisms that underlie this behavioral after-effect are unclear. ...