New impulses from theoretical discussions on urban planning strengthen the role of participation in urban planning. Combining this development with the options computerand network-based technologies offer promises to improve the citizens' satisfaction with the results of planning procedures. We summarise the new theoretical approaches and discuss first examples and further ideas to realise them...

Several ultrafiltration membranes of the anisotropic and isotropic type were characterized by means of the thermoporometry. Successive cooling and heating runs were performed in order to investigate the effects of the water-ice and ice-water phase transitions on the structure of the membranes. The results found for membranes having different casting thicknesses indicate that, in some cases, por...

Reuse of analysis methods and tools for data from different issue management systems is challenging because there are differences in how the data is accessed and represented. While various approaches for collecting and analysing software engineering data have been developed, they do not generally pay so much attention into how to actually get the data from various sources. This paper presents a...

In 1990, an attitude survey was conducted of 402 animal rights activists attending a national march in Washington, DC (S. Pious, 1991). The present article reports the results of a follow-up survey of 372 activists attending a similar event in 1996. A comparison of the 1990 and 1996 surveys suggests that during this time a significant shift took place in the priorities of the animal rights move...

since the formulation of rulings is directly related to the refinement of issues, the present paper aims at outlining the extent of a mental disorder namely dementia, so that from this perspective an acceptable separation between this and other psychiatric disorders can be achieved in the realm of jurisprudence. evaluation of narratives, comparing jurisprudential rulings issued in the case of p...

in the retrospective investigation titled “risk factors evaluation of threshold retinopathy of prematurity” at a tertiary ophthalmic center in tehran, iran, the authors have studied 859 premature neonates during one year (2008-2009). 791 eyes have had retinopathy of prematurity (rop) and 7.4% of them presented threshold retinopathy (trop). the investigators aim has been to present and compare t...

This paper reports some results of a long-term work in application of AI techniques whose ultimate goal is the development of tools for resource scheduling. Most of the efforts so far have been devoted to crew scheduling in railways and the resulting tool is called CREWS. CREWS contains the basic knowledge for crew scheduling, remains constant across companies, and only needs to be extended wit...

In an ideal plasmonic surface sensor, the bioactive area, where analytes are recognized by specific biomolecules, is surrounded by an area that is generally composed of a different material. The latter, often the surface of the supporting chip, is generally hard to be selectively functionalized, with respect to the active area. As a result, cross talks between the active area and the surroundin...

Abstract. Eliminating the leakage current is one of the most important issues for transformerless inverters in grid-connected photovoltaic system applications, where the technical challenge is how to keep the system common-mode voltage constant to reduce the leakage current. A novel singlephase three-level topology for transformerless photovoltaic systems is presented in this paper. Compared wi...