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This paper outlines the national approach to stormwater management in Malaysia, and evolving implementation practices by State and Local government authorities. The process of departing from the traditional, monodisciplinary approach is... more
Three dimensional object extraction and recognition (OER) from LIDAR data has been an area of major interest in photogrammetry for quite a long time. However, most of the existing methods for automatic object extraction and recognition... more
Greenways are promoted for land conservation in both rural and urban areas, but less attention has been paid to the potential of greenways to serve urban biodiversity conservation goals. This paper presents results of a biodiversity... more
Severe and widespread contamination by arsenic in groundwater and drinking water has been recently revealed in rural and sub-urban areas of the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi with similar magnitude as observed in Bangladesh and West Bengal,... more
The paper explored the significance of residents’ experience with an array of green infrastructure in Taiping, a small town in central Peninsular Malaysia. It argued that the existence of a composite of greenery and open spaces in a town... more
An estimated 40 % of the population in Benin lives in urban areas. The purpose of the study was to estimate malaria endemicity and the fraction of malaria-attributable fevers in health facilities in Cotonou. A health care system... more
The concentration of people in densely populated urban areas, especially in developing countries, calls for the use of monitoring systems like remote sensing. Such systems along with spatial analysis techniques like digital image... more
A numerical model was developed for the computation of the wind field, air temperature and humidity in the urban canopy layer and in the atmospheric boundary layer above urban areas. The model is of k–ε type. The ensemble-spatial averaged... more
Objectives: To establish the socio-demographic and clinical profile of children attending Early Intervention Program (EIP).Methods: Retrospective analysis of case records of 100 consecutive children examined from July 2002 to June 2004.... more
The present paper aims to investigate the role of creative practices for settlements, with a special focus on the'Associations of the Most Beautiful Villages' in France and Italy. The paper focuses on the critical parameters of... more
... Carola Raab, PhD (E-mail: raab@unlv.nevada.edu), Assistant Professor, Jean Hertzman, PhD, CCE (E-mail: jean.hertzman@unlv.edu), Assistant ... Finally, the analysis revealed five items as Stars (Pork Osso Bucco; Mira Lago Paella;... more
Chiang Mai is one of the most severe smog areas in Thailand. It was the world's ranked No.1 city with the worst air quality. Has detected the PM2.5 dust concentration higher than 500 micrograms per cubic meter. Which is the value than the... more