Abstract The study on public mass transportation in Batam City was started 2010 by BP Batam. is still a long polemic due to problems arise technical and non-technical aspects, such as limited funding capacity of local government. Therefore, the government wants involve private sectors development plan. This aims analyse selection Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme using value for money (Vf...

It has been debated whether the Global Fund (GF), which is supporting the implementation of programs on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, should consider the value-for-money (VFM) for programs/interventions that they are supporting. In this paper, we critically analyze the uses of economic information for GF programs, not only to ensure accountability to the...

The search for organizing principles of visual processing in cortex has proven long and fruitful, demonstrating specific types of organization arising on multiple scales (e.g., magnocellular / parvo-cellular pathways [1] and ocular dominance columns [2]). One of the more important larger scale organizing principles of visual cortical organization is the visual field map (VFM): neurons whose vis...

We present a computational model for object matching in a pair of stereo images based on internal sensorimotor simulation. In our study, we use pairs of retinal images, i.e. the resolution is higher towards the image center and low in the periphery, which stem from two cameras, each one mounted on a pan–tilt unit (PTU). The internal simulation is driven by two internal models: a saccade control...

Value for money (VfM) assessments often lack effective automatic processes and reasoning support in public-private partnership (PPP) projects. To automate these assessments, this paper proposes a comprehensive approach that aligns with the goals of building information modeling (BIM) as necessary ontology knowledge process. The main contribution work is retrieval from BIM environment ontologica...

The fundamentals of microwaves and fixed frequency microwave processing of materials, together with the successful applications of the technology in the United States of America (USA) and Australia, have been described in detail in the paper titled microwave processing of materials: part I. This paper, part II, describes and comments on the fundamentals of variable frequency microwave (VFM) fac...

To accurately direct investments towards sustainable transit, current transport status and factors driving passengers private cars instead of public (PT) should be identified first. Past research advocated improvements in PT to shift mode-usage but has yet model the different causal effects that bus users rapidly developing congested areas. On-board questionnaire survey data from intra-city Abu...

A dynamic eddy viscosity (DEV) model and a constant (CEV) are proposed for stabilizing the temporal direct deconvolution (TDDM) in large-eddy simulation of turbulence. Compared to original unresolved subfilter-scale used TDDM, new models reduce number empirical coefficients make TDDM more convenient be applied practice. The DEV does not have any coefficients, CEV has only one coefficient that i...