135 research outputs found
Scenario planning & its manifestation in plans
No full textUrban planning deals with shaping communities, cities and regions with the aim of making them sustainable for future generations. One of the ways to plan for an unexpected future is by using scenario planning technique. This planning method produces a set of structurally different, but plausible futures that highlight outcomes of relevant policies / regulations and helps a community to prepare for the future. While scenario planning efforts are common, the extent to which it affects plans is not well understood.
In this project, I study regional and city-wide plans of Austin and Denver with a view to analyze whether results of scenario planning process (preferred scenarios and ensuing policies and regulations) are incorporated into various planning documents of cities/regions or not? I started the process by reviewing scenario planning exercise of respective cities and regions, followed by review of regional and city plans with an aim to find connections between planning documents and scenario planning effort. It is a narrative account of how scenario planning exercises have helped in making informed decisions to address future concerns through respective plans.
It is found that scenario planning helps in making informed decisions as to how regions and cities want to address and shape an unpredictable future. However, its usage lacks consistency as it is not used uniformly by local governments and organizations within a region. Austin benefits more from scenario exercise as complete process involves interaction between members of the community and representatives from local governing bodies, whereas Denver region predominantly uses it for policy making. Scenario planning is also recommended to be used with consistency within an entire region in developing and updating relevant plans so that there is a uniformity in the complete region as to how it wants to plan for and address the future both at local and regional level. The variation in the employment of this technique among cities / regions may be attributed to several factors including financial constraints, staff resources and non-availability of relevant data for creation of meaningful scenarios.
The limitation of the study is that scenario planning results are hard to assess since they warrant time and implementation of all the prescribed policies / regulations elucidated in local and regional plans. Therefore, evaluation of the results should be carried out after due course of time in consultation with relevant authorities who can comment on implementation on policies.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Muhammad Usman, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-15 at 17:54.The student, Muhammad Usman, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-15 at 17:56.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-16 at 15:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14329 on 2019-11-26 at 13:05:58Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Modelling Value of Time for Trip Chains in Daily Schedules
No full textAbstractThe decision about spending time on an activity, switching to the next activity and transport mode used to travel to the next activity location depends on money value of time; opportunity cost of time at activity. Optimal condition of transition between two activities occurs when their marginal utility of time is equal. The presented framework in this paper models the marginal utility of activity to express the money benefit earned by spending each unit of time at the given activity. The proposed model is generalized for the schedule with any number of activities as contrast to previous studies, where such models were used for schedules with fixed number of activities. This framework can be used to calculate the loss in value of time due decreased activity participation resulting from travel delays
A coordinated Framework for Optimized Charging of EV Fleet in Smart Grid
No full textAbstractElectric vehicles can be sustainable alternative in contrast to conventional fossil fuel powered vehicles only if the green energy is used to power them. Without coordination among electric vehicles and grid operator, it can imbalance the power production and demand. This paper presents an automated coordinated mechanism among EV fleet and the grid operator that plans a charging strategy for electric vehicles while sustaining the grid capacity constraints. The intelligent planner plans the charging strategy at the cheaper moments and keep the vehicle charged enough to complete its scheduled trips It suggests a charging pattern for the electric vehicle by using the time dependent electric prices and available power at the given time slots. It also ensures the cheapest charging cost and fulfills the constraints of battery state of the charge. A central power tracker is also introduced which keeps track of the available and required power at each time slot. According to the current market share of the electric vehicles, a fraction of the daily agendas, created by an operational activity-based model, is used to test the framework. Moreover, an experiment has been set up, it makes use of wind and solar renewable energy to power the vehicles
Ghargham Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana (The biography of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana)
No full textThe entire document is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center), and Eleni Castrol (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections on Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Required Citation: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: This manuscript is owned and authored by Professor Aliyu Muhammad of the Department of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The owner documented and wrote about the life and works of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana. Written in the Mashriqi script, the document is complete and is typed.This document deals with the biography of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana, a Northern Nigerian Muslim woman who is educated in and practicing Islamic arts as a profession. She established a non-profit organization that educates children, including young women and girls affected by the Boko Haram insurgency so that they can become self-reliant and acquire new vocational skills. Written in 2019, this Kanuri Ajami text contains two parts: The first part deals with the life and works of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana, and the second is an interview transcript with her. In the interview, she discusses her non-profit organization, her Herwa Heart of Art Initiative. This part provides details on how she established the organization and her successes and challenges. In the last part of the interview, she discusses how philanthropists and the general public can support her organization in order to use the arts to assist the orphans and children displaced and traumatized by Boko Haram in Borno state and beyond.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
Athar al-Shi‘r fī Tadwīn al-Aḥdāth al-Tārīkhīyah fī al-Qarn al-Tāsi‘ ‘Ashar: Qaṣīdat al-Shaykh Muhammadu Bello ibn al-Shaykh Usman ibn Fodio fī Ghazwat Kano Unmūdhajān
No full textPoetry is a notable record for historical events, a tool for arousing enthusiasm and a capability of emotional expression that drives society. The objective of this article is to investigate and appraise the degree for special literary description on poetic influence in the recording of historical events in the 19th century in Nigeria. The article contains a biography of the poet Shaykh Muhammadu Bello bin Sheikh Usman bin Fodio and preamble that will assist in understanding the meaning of historical Arabic poetry. The theme of this article comprises the meaning of historical Arabic poetry, word expression, skills in the language of poetry, the poet’s artistic doctrine, and the belief of the poet feels. The poetry of historical events is counted among the best poems in Arabic literature of the past and present period. The author collected lots of data and will use the descriptive and analytical methods in carrying out the research
A study on the enhancing earthquake frequency in northern Pakistan: is the climate change responsible?
No full textIn northern Pakistan, the collision between Indian and Eurasian plates has resulted in the formation of many faults. The concentration of ruptures, in this regime, makes it sensitive to the localized changes in the stress. The current climate changes have caused an increase in the rainfall and variation in the mass of glaciers, present in the northern Pakistan. The rainfall and glacial runoff have potential to erode and transport sediments and thus can change the balance of load across faults. On the other hand, glacial mass loss or gain also has potential of isostatic rebound or compression of crust, respectively. All these factors have been observed in the northern Pakistan. The seismic data of the duration 1965–2004 have been obtained from Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the sedimentation data have been acquired from Tarbela Dam Project. The study indicates a gradual increase in the earthquake frequency for the magnitudes 4.1–5.0 Mb. The epicentral distributions show that these events gradually cluster in the central Karakorum and Hindu Kush areas. The depth analysis suggests that the earthquakes with the foci 0–60 km are gathering in the central Karakorum and shocks with depth 0–120 are clustering in the Hindu Kush areas. The FMS study exhibits the dominance of normal faulting in the central Karakorum after 1999, and these characteristics do not correspond with behavior of previous mapped Raikot Fault, lying in the vicinity. The known significant variables during the study period are the different geological processes associated with climate change, which have potential to alter the load across faults and can possibly result in enhancing earthquake frequency by changing and releasing stresses at some local scale
Dynamically Reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Design of r-VEX Softcore Processor
No full textOver the past many years, technology scaling has resulted in a continuous reduction of lateral and vertical dimensions of transistors. The technology scaling, on the one hand, has led to a commensurate performance gain for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits, but on the other hand, has also made such circuits more vulnerable to ionizing radiations which can cause single event effects(SEEs). These SEEs may cause the underlying user circuitry to deviate from its normal behavior. Devices that are destined for space missions need special protection for such kind of anomalies as space environment is filled with massive amount of high energy particles and ionizing radiations. In this thesis, the design, implementation, and verification of a fault-tolerant r-VEX, a softcore processor, is presented, so that it could be used as an attractive alternative to expensive radiation-hardened processors for space-based applications. r-VEX is a VLIW based, dynamically reconfigurable processor. Keeping in line with its inherent attribute, a dynamically reconfigurable fault-tolerant mode is presented in this work, which provides the running application an option to activate and deactivate the fault-tolerant mode multiple times. In this mode, for the protection of processor pipeline, a non-traditional TMR approach that requires 3 lanegroups running in 2-way mode is implemented. For the reliability of user memories, Hamming codes are implemented as an ECC coding scheme. The functionally of our fault-tolerant design is verified by using both a simulation-based platform (ModelSim) and an on-board FPGA platform (ML605 development kit). To measure the fault-tolerant capabilities of the r-VEX core, saboteurs are used to artificially inject faults at various predefined locations in the core. The obtained results have shown that our design can mitigate all injected single faults in the pipeline and double faults in the caches, without triggering any failure. The dynamically configurable fault-tolerant feature is obtained at the cost of about 30% additional resource utilization and 20% reduction in the maximum operating frequency
Nilai Pendidikan Karakter dalam Novel Tahun-tahun yang Hilang Berdiri Tegar di Bawah Bayang-bayang Syekh Yusuf Karya Rully Ferdiansyah
No full textAbstract. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive analysis method which aims to describe:
(1) the socio-historical background of Rully Ferdiansyah as the author of the novel Years of the Lost
Standing Strong in the Shadows of Sheikh Yusuf and (2) the value of character education contained in
novel The Lost Years Standing Strong in Shaykh Yusuf's Shadow. The primary data of this research is the
novel Years of the Lost Standing Strong in the Shadow of Sheikh Yusuf, while the secondary data of this
study was obtained through a written interview with Rully Ferdiansyah as the author of the novel. The
source of the data for this research comes from the novel Years of the Lost Standing Strong in the
Shadows of Sheikh Yusuf and a written interview with Rully Ferdiansyah as the author of the novel. Data
collection was carried out in three stages, namely reading techniques, note-taking techniques, and
interview techniques. The data that has been obtained is then analyzed through four stages, namely
data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. This research uses the
theory of sociology of literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. The results of the study show that
(1) Rully Ferdiansyah as the author of the novel Years of the Lost Standing Strong in the Shadows of
Sheikh Yusuf was born in Serang, Banten, precisely on August 30, 1985. Rully Ferdiansyah is of SundaBanten ethnicity and adheres to the teachings of Islam. The author is an environmental activist and antisocial disease activist in Cilegon. In addition, the author is a demisioner at the Banten Arts Council for
the 2017-2018 period in the literary committee and also as a functionary of ICMI Banten for the 2019-
present period, (2) In the novel Years of the Lost Standing Strong in the Shadows of Sheikh Yusuf, it is
found five main characters in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Education and Culture
which include: religiosity values (20.68%), integrity values (16.37%), nationalist values (11.20%),
independent values (10.34%), and mutual cooperation value (6%). The value of integrity, which is the
fifth value, in this novel is in second place under the value of religiosity
Keywords: Novel, socio-historical setting, five values of character educatio
Digitisation and the Evolving Role of Quantity Surveyors: A study of Professional Perspectives
No full textThis study explores the transformative role of digitisation on the quantity surveying profession, focusing on its influence on practices, tools, and professional competencies. Employing a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with quantity surveyors from diverse professional contexts in Southwest Nigeria. The findings reveal that digital tools, notably Building Information Modelling (BIM), enhance efficiency and collaboration but necessitate new skills and adaptation. Barriers such as high costs, resistance to change, and data security concerns were identified. The study concludes by recommending targeted training, phased digital adoption, and government support to ensure equitable integration of digitisation, emphasising its potential to position quantity surveyors as strategic contributors to the construction industry's evolution
Incidence and risk factors of cervical dysplasia among human immune deficiency virus positive and human immune deficiency virus negative women at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
No full text>Background: HIV infection is a risk factor for cervical cancer and both diseases are prevalent in Nigeria. HIV positive women are at greater risk of cervical dysplasia than HIV negative women which may be as a result of immunosupression, hence adding more burdens to their already worsening health condition. It has become relevant to screen these women early and refer for appropriate and effective therapeutic intervention.Objective: To compare the incidence and risk factors of cervical dysplasia among HIV positive and HIV negative women at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano.Methods: This was a comparative cross sectional studyl, which involved HIV positive women attending HIV clinic and HIV negative women attending the gynecological clinic at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. A cohort of 150 consenting HIV- positive women not on HAART and 150 HIV- negative women, selected by systematic random sampling were sent for Pap smear examination. On the same day blood samples were taken from antecubital vein and sent for both CD4 count and viral load among the HIV positive group. A pretested questionnaire was administered to the women of both groups on same day to determine the presence or absence of risk factors of cervical dysplasia in them. The results obtained were recorded using proforma and analyses of risk factors of cervical dysplasia was done using Chi square test and Fisher exact test to compare variables between those with normal and abnormal smears and student t test to determine the relationship of lesions with CD4count and viral load among the HIV positive women.Results: The incidence of cervical dysplasia among HIV- positive women was 49 (32.7%) and was significantly higher than 12(8%) found among the HIV- negative. Age ≥ 35years and parity ≥5, early coitarche, multiple sexual partners, low-socioeconomic status, cigarette smoking did confer some risk of dysplasia however. This study also showed that among the HIV positive group, CD4 count was inversely associated with risk of cervical dysplasia and women with a CD4 count 500 cells/mm3.Conclusion: It Ais important to carryout cervical smear screening for HIV-positive women, especially those with a CD4 count<500 at first contact
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