It has been suggested that the method of constructing an urban spatial structure typically follows a forward process from planning and design up to expression, as reflected in both graphic and text descriptions of urban planning. Although unorthodox, the original status structures can be extracted and constructed from an existing urban land-use map. This approach not only provides the methodolo...

The contingencies contribute to overloading of network branches and unsatisfactory voltages, which may lead to problems of stability/voltage collapse. The most important task in security analysis is the problem of identifying the critical contingencies from a large list of credible contingencies and rank them according to their severity. This paper presents fuzzy approach for ranking the contin...

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Based on the concept of “economic cycle cube”, this research constructs the multi-dimension monitoring system for Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The system is able to monitor the main subjects of Xinjiang regional economy including economic growth, investment, consumption, trade, prices, industrial enterprises, coal industry and services, with the tools like diffusion index, composite index, signa...

Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by economic notions of efficiency, as well as by time constraints and egalitarian values. Methods: Employing time use data on...

This study examines a method to collect and explore data on the conditions that could lead to crises due to microfinance clients’ over-indebtedness. A simplified version of one of the main approaches to early warning systems, the “signaling approach”, is proposed to construct a composite index for predicting over-indebtedness crises in the microfinance industry. The index is built for a sample ...

Ranking a set of measurements, or ranking a set of model outputs, is a generic task for decision support. In the case of multiple indicators, a composite index is often defined. However, as Patil and Taillie (2004) point out, “every such composite involves judgements (often arbitrary or controversial) about tradeoffs or substitutability among indicators.” These concerns are addressed by the con...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this research are to conceptualize the Bicycle Safety Index (BSI) that considers all parts of the street and to propose a universal guideline with microscale details. METHOD A point system method comparing existing safety facilities to a defined standard is proposed to estimate the BSI. Two streets in Singapore and Malaysia are chosen to examine this model. RESU...

PURPOSE There is little information in the literature on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) changes due to high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy monotherapy for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study of HRQOL changes due to HDR brachytherapy monotherapy for low risk or favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer. Sixty-four of 84 (76 %) patients who were trea...

Influence diagnostics have become an important tool for statistical analysis since the seminal work by Cook (1986). In this paper we present a curvature-based diagnostic to assess local influence of minor perturbations on the modified likelihood displacement in a regression model. Using the proposed diagnostic, we study the local influence in the GARCH model under two perturbation schemes which...