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Many older industrial cities in the UK have been pursuing cultural strategies to promote urban regeneration. These strategies were designed, in part, to attract new residents to run-down central and inner areas of the city. This article, based on research in Manchester and Glasgow, examines the characteristics of new residents; their reasons for choosing to live there and their factors of satis...

The world is just emerging from the worst ®nancial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. While ®nancial variables, such as exchange rates, have stabilized in East Asia, unemployment remains far higher than before the crisis, and real wages far lower. The World Bank estimates that the 1999 output of the ®ve crisis countries of East Asia will still be 17% below what it would have been h...

A method for detecting human faces in color images is described that first separates skin regions from nonskin regions and then locates faces within skin regions. A chroma chart is prepared via a training process that contains the likelihoods of different colors representing the skin. Using the chroma chart, a color image is transformed into a gray scale image in such a way that the gray value ...

A k-set of a finite set S of points in the plane is a subset of cardinality k that can be separated from the rest by a straight line. The question of how many k-sets a set of n points can contain is a long-standing open problem where a lower bound of (n logk) and an upper bound of O(nk1/3) are known today. Under certain restrictions on the set S, for example, if all points lie on a convex curv...

This study examined the causal factors associated with anger while driving and the possible consequences of that anger on driving behaviour. Drivers kept diaries over a period of two weeks, detailing the events occurring during each journey in that time, with notes on events such as near accidents and on feelings of anger. The study examined the diaries of 100 drivers, who reported a total of 2...

A.S. Perelson, D.E. Kirschner and R. De Boer (Math. Biosci. 114 (1993) 81) proposed an ODE model of cell-free viral spread of human immunode®ciency virus (HIV) in a well-mixed compartment such as the bloodstream. Their model consists of four components: uninfected healthy CD4‡ T-cells, latently infected CD4‡ T-cells, actively infected CD4‡ T-cells, and free virus. This model has been important ...

between different members of the design team involved in the different stages of concept creation, embodiment and detail design, fabrication and production. It is frequently the case that misunderstandings arise, that incorrect and/or incomplete specifications are passed from one team group to another, and that errors or inconsistencies in the design are discovered at late stages of the process...

A number of exact results have been obtained recently for the one-dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion process, a model of particles which hop to their right at random times, on a one-dimensional lattice, provided that the target site is empty. Using either a matrix form for the steady-state weights or the Bethe ansatz, several steady-state properties can be calculated exactly: the current, ...