Background Intersectoral action is often presented as essential in the promotion of population health and health equity. In Norway, national public health policies are based on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach that promotes whole-of-government responsibility. As part of the promotion of this intersectoral responsibility, p...

An investigation of planning obligations is used to explore the political and economic dynamics associated with the interaction between the planning and development processes. A significant widening in the use and scope of planning obligations has occurred in the last ten years. Obligations are used not only to remove physical constraints on development and to mitigate direct development impact...

Existing plan synthesis approaches in artiicial intelligence fall into two categories { domain independent and domain dependent. The domain independent approaches are applicable across a variety of domains, but may not be very eecient in any one given domain. The domain dependent approaches need to be (re)designed for each domain separately, but can be very eecient in the domain for which they ...

BACKGROUND An important public health goal is to decrease the prevalence of key behavioural risk factors, such as tobacco use and obesity. Survey information is often available at the regional level, but heterogeneity within large geographic regions cannot be assessed. Advanced spatial analysis techniques are demonstrated to produce sensible micro area estimates of behavioural risk factors that...

In real world scenarios for mobile robots, socially acceptable navigation is a key component to interact naturally with other persons. On the one hand this enables a robot to behave more human-like, and on the other hand it increases the acceptance of the user towards the robot as an interaction partner. As part of this research field, we present in this paper a strategy of approaching a person...

In this report we present an overview of our investigation into constructing motion templates. We start with a successful implementation of elementary concepts that worked well on previous projects, then proceed with a generalization of that approach through a study of spatial distinctness of the same type of paths, and finally present a further generalization that looks at all possible motions...

31 Working memory representations serve as templates that guide behavior, but the neural 32 basis of these templates remains elusive. We tested the hypothesis that working memory 33 templates are maintained by biasing activity in sensoriperceptual neurons that code for 34 features of items being held in memory. Neural activity was recorded using event-related 35 potentials (ERPs) as participant...

sixty-year history of town and country planning in the world, raised a fundamental question: why following the successful models in the process of town and country planning don’t have always similar results? whether, the origin of differences and ambiguities are not in the boundaries, interrelation among the levels of decision making, policy making, uncontrollable democracy in land ownership, i...

planning of cities in order to respond to considerable needs of urban population, is one of the most important concerns of urban managers and authorities. urban development plans which have been provided to respond to these issues, have different objectives and characteristics. hence different plans are developed to plan and organize cities. most of these plans are being prepared without consid...