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This paper is based on Chapter 5 in the book edited by F. E. I. Hamilton, Kaliopa Dimirovska Andrews, and Nataša Pichler – Milanović (Eds.) Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalisation, published in 2005. Chapter 5 Foreign Direct Investments and City Restructuring was originally written by well known university professors and scientists: FEI Hamilton and FW Carter, and postmortem completed and edited by Nataša Pichler – Milanović.
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The article summarizes the results of a study of the impact of suburbanization on the budgets of Polish gminas existing in the zones of influence of big cities. The study covers the 2001-2010 period and examines the zone of influence of 12 most important cities, following the National Spatial Development Concept 2030. Revenues, and therefore expenditures of gminas, are increasing due to the process of suburbanization. That growth is concentrated in a relatively small number of administrative units. One of the most important results is the increase in gminas income from their shares in PIT. The second consists in higher incomes from the property taxes, mostly on commercial property. Higher incomes on assets are concentrated in the areas that were formerly developed. Transfer incomes are lower in suburbanizing areas. Suburbanization results in higher expenditure on transport (mostly road infrastructure) and lower on education (postponement of investments), and social assistance. Higher expenditures on housing are concentrated in the areas that were developed in the past.
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Geomarketing, a new way of knowledge-based marketing, integrates geographic analysis, reasoning, and technology for the improvement of the business judgmental decision. Geomarketing can help you find out who your best customers are and apply geographic analysis techniques to discover where to find more of them. Solving almost any sales and marketing challenge start with knowing who your customer is. Therefore; private hospitals, as commercial businesses with huge investments, also need to find out their best customers and discover where to find more of them. In other words, private hospitals also need customer profiling with geomarketing tools. In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze spatial density, based on the demographic characteristics of customers of private hospitals. A small private hospital, located in Eskisehir city center was chosen for this study. In one year period, the address locations, frequency of visits, clinic choices and neighborhood concentrations of the patients, due to the demographic characteristics, were examined using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from the hospital patient records.
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The English language nowadays is significantly changing, responding to the opportunities of a rapidly evolving world. The lexical level is intrinsically most liable to changes, albeit the constantly increasing number of new words inevitably entails some obscureness and preposterousness. This pilot study is intended to shed light on the dubious nature of ‘nonce words’ which, on the one hand, help express speaker’s thoughts and convey implicit preferences and, on the other hand, serve as a barrier to understanding the message. The article covers the notion of nonce words, their place and role in mass media discourse. The author determines the key features and functions of nonce words in media discourse in general and travel journalism in particular. The choice of the data is predetermined by the popularisation of travel media as a trend for ‘infotainment’ in modern mass media. The text elaborates cognitive features of word-formation, which makes possible to investigate the interaction of mind, language and reality in the act of designation and reveal cognitive mechanisms that underlie the designation of different fragments of the surrounding world. Resting on comprehensive methods applied to the study, the researcher affirms that cognitive mechanisms, operations and procedures underlie aggregated, condensed and modified types of occasional word-formation. Particular attention is paid to portmanteau words as the most productive way of creating nonce words in mass media discourse.
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The aim of the paper is to describe the monitoring process used when we aim to realize the monitoring process for a volcanic deformation considering several approaches. The described process is complex because it combines the unpredictable nature of the volcano, infinitely higher than of a land or structures, with the process of tracking the deformations which is mainly based on measurements performed in the study area and right next to it in many stages. The process is more difficult to be realized because in the volcanoes case it is impossible to be done without appropriate equipment.
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The purpose of tracking in time the buildings in a field of salt probes is to obtain information in order to ensure the stability of the buildings, an assessment of environmental conditions to prevent various natural accidents, prevention by reducing the damage or to prevent the loss of lives and environmental degradation. Based on topographic measurements made on the topographic marks placed on land or on the topographic marks placed in the foundations of buildings, are determined the deformations and displacements that occur in the area of influence of salt extraction and the displacement directions of the marks (vertical displacements).
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Geographic Information System database for noise pollution have to contain all the elements required in order to combine the field of transportation with those of phonic pollution and land measurement. The information provided by the GIS and the one obtained using the modeling software, determine more efficient monitoring and more accurate assessment of the noise impact on the environment and human health.This paper presents the way of improving the database with new elements by classifying the buildings and handling the noise maps. These new elements are necessary to achieve optimal action plans at the lowest cost.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has now become a reality and, in many areas, it is already used, being very secure. Communication with a car now has a variety of different functions, most of which use the cloud. Without data, it's nothing. Vehicle telematics has evolved and allows for a wider range of capabilities including navigation, tracking driver behavior, E-key calling and guidance on efficiency fuel consumption. Opportunity and challenges regarding the development of Intelligent Transport Systems, from the perspective of potential users, require data that must be transformed into accessible information, so that road users can adapt their driving behavior according to weather conditions, traffic jam information and estimates waiting time but also other information to increase the general traffic safety. Information stored on the vehicle's computer or, more likely, on the manufacturer's or service provider's servers, will be transferred from one vehicle to another, as long as the technology is compatible when a user switches their car.
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In recent earthquakes, there has been a significant field evidence that the collapse of existing structures is due to the effect of the vertical component of the seismic ground motions. Such field evidence has been not supported by comprehensive analytical and experimental testing yet. This study focuses on the preliminary analysis of the seismic response of reinforced concrete elements exposed to horizontal and vertical ground motions. In this research, the vertical earthquake effect was investigated on two reinforced concrete buildings with 3 stories and 7 stories
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Between music geography and iconic music legends, a strong connection has been established in terms of spatial and temporal analysis of popular music and the representation of national identities in the contemporary global cultures of popular music. The existing literature unveils a gap in the analysis of music geography and famous musicians, real global music icons identified with particular cultures. This paper argues that such music legends must be geographically studied to unveil their outstanding contribution to the world music cultures. Against such a background, a geographical approach that takes Canadian singer Céline Dion as a case studyis developed. The research aims to analyse Dion’s outstandingcontribution to global music culture in both spatial and temporal terms. Based on the music industry emergence, the paper focuses on how and why Céline Dion appeared in global music culture and examines her outstanding contribution with specific referenceto music cartographies and statistical research.National identity and related cultural issues beyond the music, lyrics, and performances are also addressed.The empirically led study is based on a multi-method approach and makes use of statistical data analysis, GIS methods, biographicalinquiry, the analysis of lyrics and visual methodologies,all suggesting that Dion’s contribution has greatly influenced the global popular music culture of the last few decades.Although the topics in question cannot be fully discussed within the limits of this paper, it highlights the importance of these issues and calls for further in-depth research to provide a new critical understanding of the intimate connections between popular music, legendary music icons and the recent perspectives in music geographies
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Eine Form der Anpassung des menschlichen Wesens an die Umwelt ist die Kenntnis seines Wohnraumes aber auch der Umgebung, vorausgesetzt, dass der Erwerb der lebensnotwendigen Ressourcen Fortbewegung erfordert. Für die Menschen aus der ländlichen Umgebung von Hermannstadt erfolgte die Fortbewegung in die Stadt größtenteils zu Fuß, da wenige Verkehrsmittel verfügbar waren. Der Beitrag stellt dar, wie sich diese traditionellen Fortbewegungen in der Gegend von Sibiu vollzogen: auf möglichst direkten Routen, je nach den vorhandenen Verkehrswegen. Gegenwärtig hat die Zivilisation diese frühere Gewohnheit der Bewohner des Hermannstädter Umlandes fast gänzlich abgeschafft.
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The article considers the EU as a region, part of which also is Bulgaria. It analyzes the critical infrastructure in the US and Canada. In the research has been suggested a procedure for identifying the national critical infrastructure, similar to the method of Czech Republic. The article has been proposed main measures for the protection of national critical infrastructure and analyzed major definitions like: risk, threat; Critical Infrastructure; European Critical Infrastructure, etc.
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This article presents the results of a research project “Contraband & Counterfeit Risks Identification (Analysis of Business Processes and Spatial Aspects)“, funded by PMI IMPACT. The project has been developed by the team of Department “National and Regional Security” at the UNWE. It is focused on states located on the Balkan route of trafficking from Turkey to the Western Europe, including France, the UK, Germany and Italy. The main focused is on Bulgaria due to its key geographical location. Within the project а unique illicit tobacco trade identification indicator has been developed. It is so called – Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Indicator (ITTPI). ITTPI can be visualized on an interactive map and could be implemented all over the world. It can be used in the daily work of institutions dealing with the counteractions of the illicit tobacco and tobacco products trade. Despite other methods the model can forecast and detect centers and channels of illicit tobacco trade by visualizing certain regions. The method has been tested in 186 countries and separately for 1744 EU regions (EUROSTAT NUTS3). Model data have been validated by comparison with several studies of other international research centers.
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Official city websites are the basic source of information about the city. Web technologies are a resource for improving the activities of municipal authorities in the field of urban planning. This resource allows receiving and processing huge amounts of information, interacting with the city community and creating a more effective management system. Improvement of the management system in urban development activities increases the quality of life of citizens as well as investment attractiveness. The study is devoted to the development of a methodology for evaluating the websites of the authorities responsible for urban planning. The proposed method was tested when evaluating the current state of websites in the field of urban management based on the analysis of several dozen of major cities in Russia. According to the methodology the levels of effectiveness of the sites of the city planning authorities were determined. Recommendations for the improvement and development of web technologies as a resource in the field of urban planning were proposed in the paper.
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The purpose of this article is to analyze the promotion of sustainable urban development. The major question is to understand how the new city project adapts to the new production model of the city based on a normative approach including relevant practices. Urban planning consists of a project approach which tends towards sustainable production in the city. The latter must in no way ignore resources for the promotion of sustainable urban development, the transposition of which into space constitutes a challenge to be met. To be viable, the Diamniadio sustainable city project must essentially take care of the landscape and environmental, social and land dimensions linked to Senegalese history and culture.
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Urban development is accompanied by significant production of wastewater and waste. The collection and treatment of this waste and spent waste results in the presence of numerous unauthorized dumps, stagnation of waste water. Most of the waste comes from households, industrial establishments and hospitals. The removal and disposal of waste is a crucial environmental problem in Senegalese cities. These problems stem from a series of causes which revolve around irregular collection, incomplete territorial coverage, and insufficient collection equipment, the absence of an effective treatment system and non-implication of the populations. To this end, Senegal’s environmental policy, in particular the management of wastewater and waste is one of the fundamental challenges of cities.
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The objective of the applied research is the construction of a cross-media map to discover the agricultural landscape, through the digitization and geo-referencing on Google maps of historical maps and photos of the Cà Granda Foundation Archive. It allows the visualization and immediate accessibility of landscape transformations, in a sort of multimedia journey through time.
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The paper deals with the application possibilities of UAVs ((Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in education and in research activities carried out in university level. We can find several software applications for mission planning and execution of flight plans for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) on the market. Some of them are fully free or very cheap, and they are suitable for teaching purposes. Choosing an appropriate evaluation software is also an important issue in education and team research processes. A series of experiments showed us, that the UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) technology is a good tool for deepening the knowledge in photogrammetric evaluation techniques and algorithms.
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The sprawl of built-up areas is one of the most important anthropic changes which lead to the development of cities. This study analyses the sprawl of built-up areas around the city of Brașov, Romania, on the basis of two Landsat satellite images acquired in 1985 and 2019. The analysis was based on satellite images obtained through the difference between the NDBI and NDVI indices calculated for each satellite image. The results show that in the period 1985–2019 built-up areas around Brașov and its surroundings increased considerably (24.6%). Furthermore, it was noted that, although the reflectance of built-up areas varies very little from one season to the next, it can be influenced indirectly by the presence in the studied area of agricultural land and barren land whose reflectance is seasonal. This phenomenon led to confusion among built-up, agricultural land and barren land in mapping built-up areas.
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