The recent volatility of population redistribution trends in the U.S. continues to stimulate the demographic imagination. This research sheds new light on this subject through an examination of newly designated metro areas, which collectively constitute the largest source of national metropolitan growth in two of the past three decades. Results show that over this period new metro areas have co...

The macroeconomy and social policies can have substantial influences on poverty in the United States. In this paper, I investigate whether these influences differ across metro and nonmetro areas. To do so, using a 16-year panel of state-level data, I estimate state and year fixed effects models separately for metro and nonmetro areas to see if the effects of the macroeconomy and social policies...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is being used in various fields of engineering and automation in recent times. Every year, lot of people commits suicide at metro stations by jumping before the metro trains. Metro railways are a pride of Kolkata as well as India. Such suicides create a lot of inconvenience for the commuters as well as routine operation of train services. Such suicid...

Carriers and service providers are rushing to provide Ethernet-based virtual private network services in metro area network (MAN) as the most cost effective way to address the needs of the enterprise network market. To address the fast recovery from any signal failure issue in the Metro Ethernet, we propose a metro Ethernet architecture based on multiple Enhanced Self-protected Spanning Trees (...

This paper briefly describes the WebNize system and how it applies a Metro Map metaphor for organizing guided tours in Web based resources. Then experiences in using the Metro Map based tours in a Knowledge Sharing project at the library at Aarhus School of Business (ASB) in Denmark, is discussed. The Library has been involved in establishing a Learning Resource Centre (LRC). The LRC serves as ...

We present an application focused on the design of resilient longreach passive optical networks. We specifically consider dual-parented networks whereby each customer must be connected to two metro sites via local exchange sites. An important property of such a placement is resilience to single metro node failure. The objective of the application is to determine the optimal position of a set of...

At lunchtime it’s crucial for people to get to the food trucks as quickly as possible. The building is represented by a graph G = (V,E) where each room, landing, or other location is represented by a vertex and each corridor or stairway is represented by an edge. Each corridor has associated capacity c, meaning that at most c people can pass through the corridor at once. Traversing a corridor f...

This paper presents the application of a modified fuzzy reasoning spiking neural P systems (MFRSN P system, for short) to fault diagnosis of metro traction power supply systems. In MFRSN P systems, three types of neurons are used to represent operation information of protection devices including protective relays and circuit breakers; a reasoning algorithm associated with MFRSN P systems is int...

Wireless sensor networks are expected to play an essential role as a social infrastructure to realize our safe and secure living environment. In such a network, critical information must be transmitted faster and more reliably than other information. We propose a distributed transmission mechanism which enables emergency packets to be carried with high reliability and low latency along a prefer...

A k-dense corridor through a finite set, S, of n points in the plane is the open region of the plane that is bounded by two parallel lines that intersect the convex hull of S and such that the region contains k points of S. The problem of finding a widest k-dense corridor arises in robot motion-planning. In this paper, efficient solutions are presented for several versions of this problem. Resu...