Daily Mobility Patterns: Publicness as a Lived Experience in a Hidden Pedestrian Hub

Publicness can be considered as a way of experiencing the contemporary city. In creating publicness, we often focus just on places. There is ambiguity about publicness in transport infrastructure point as place or non-place. In that space, groups of individuals are formed, all set on the goal of reaching a destination. That groups can be named momentary communities. This paper sets out to examine how momentary communities have formed, their needs and aspects of usage, and how they have brought publicness as a lived experience. The study area is Mostar Interchange - an important transport point of Belgrade that connects the city and highway system. It is an intersection point of civic and transport infrastructure. At the same time, interchange connects and separates the city. Historically, by its forming, it erased this part of the city and made the radical cut in the urban tissue. Today, the important parts of the development of the city are urban tissue toward the center, as well as the riverfront, while the transport part remains neglected and witnesses radical urban changes in its environment. Therefore, this space can be considered as a liminal space that has potential. The purpose of this paper is to open the questions and reconsider possibilities of inquiries values of liminal spaces treatment, especially in the context of planning practice. In that sense, the focus of methodology is on literature review, historic research, and walking interview as input data and observations as mapping (urban reading) through different frameworks, and also testing that combined approach in the pedestrian hub of Mostar Interchange as a case study of liminal space. The results should show that although interchange is a liminal space, it has its hidden values in the daily mobility patterns of users that reveal the life of a pedestrian hub with its rules and problems. It is necessary to work on new pedestrian mobility in the development of this space in the city which will include neglected needs of momentary communities

Near-Lossless Compression for Large Traffic Networks

With advancements in sensor technologies, intelligent transportation systems can collect traffic data with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, the size of the networks combined with the huge volume of the data puts serious constraints on system resources. Low-dimensional models can help ease these constraints by providing compressed representations for the networks. In this paper, we analyze the reconstruction efficiency of several low-dimensional models for large and diverse networks. The compression performed by low-dimensional models is lossy in nature. To address this issue, we propose a near-lossless compression method for traffic data by applying the principle of lossy plus residual coding. To this end, we first develop a low-dimensional model of the network. We then apply Huffman coding (HC) in the residual layer. The resultant algorithm guarantees that the maximum reconstruction error will remain below a desired tolerance limit. For analysis, we consider a large and heterogeneous test network comprising of more than 18 000 road segments. The results show that the proposed method can efficiently compress data obtained from a large and diverse road network, while maintaining the upper bound on the reconstruction error.Singapore. National Research Foundation (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center. Future Urban Mobility Program

IMPROVED ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES IN Y DOPED BiFeO3 CERAMICS

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) is considered one of the most promising single phase multiferroic materials thanks to the fact it exhibits ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic properties in the same time in very wide range of temperatures (up to 370 °C). Difficulties in obtaining pure BiFeO3 phase and dense ceramics, together with occurrence of leakage currents have prevented application of BiFeO3. Substitution of Bi3+ or Fe3+ ions with some transition metal or rare earth ions can improve both electrical and magnetic properties by reducing leakage currents and introducing weak ferromagnetism through structural changes. Y doped bismuth ferrite, Bi1-xYxFeO3, was synthesized by auto-combustion method using urea as a fuel. Precursor powders were annealed, pressed and sintered. Powders and ceramic samples were characterized by XRD, SEM, Raman, impedance spectroscopy, ferroelectric and magneticmeasurements. X-ray diffractograms and Raman spectra showed no presence of secondary phases. SEM images indicated lowering of grain size with higher concentration of Y3+. Electrical resistance is highly improved even at 1 % of Y, while 10 % of Y was necessary to break spiral spin structure, leading to weak ferromagnetism

Bayesian Support Vector Regression for Traffic Speed Prediction with Error Bars

Abstract-Traffic prediction algorithms can help improve the performance of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). To this end, ITS require algorithms with high prediction accuracy. For more robust performance, the traffic systems also require a measure of uncertainty associated with prediction data. Data driven algorithms such as Support Vector Regression (SVR) perform traffic prediction with overall high accuracy. However, they do not provide any information about the associated uncertainty. The prediction error can only be calculated once field data becomes available. Consequently, the applications which use prediction data, remain vulnerable to variations in prediction error. To overcome this issue, we propose Bayesian Support Vector Regression (BSVR). BSVR provides error bars along with the predicted traffic states. We perform sensitivity and specificity analysis to evaluate the efficiency of BSVR in anticipating variations in prediction error. We perform multi-horizon prediction and analyze the performance of BSVR for expressways as well as general road segments

Effect of Y-doping on structure and properties of multiferroic BiFeO3 ceramics

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) exhibits ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic properties up to very high temperatures, and is, consequently, considered one of the most promising single phase multiferroic materials. Doping with Y3+ was tested in terms of improving electrical and magnetic properties. Bi1-xYxFeO3 was synthesized by auto-combustion method using urea as a fuel. Precursor powders were annealed, pressed and sintered. Powders and ceramic samples were characterized by XRD, SEM, Raman, electrical and magnetic measurements. X-ray diffractograms and Raman spectra showed transition from rhombohedral to orthorhombic structure at 10 % Y3+ content. SEM images indicated reduction in grain size with higher concentration of Y3+

tick borne encephalitis in serbia a case series

Introduction: In the Europe, the number of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has been increased in the last decade, and the number of endemic areas has been also increased and is still growing. In the present case series, we present clinical and socio-epidemiological data of patients with TBE hospitalized in the period of TBE virus epidemic in Serbia. Methodology: A case series was conducted in Serbia in 2017. Patients with confirmed TBE were included in the study. Biochemical and serological analysis of blood and CSF, as well as radiological imaging (CT and MRI) were done. Results: In total, 10 patients with TBE were included in the study. M:F ratio was 1.5:1, while average age was 45.1 years. Half of the patients had severe clinical picture. Endocranial CT scan and MRI did not reveal any abnormality, except in the patient with the most severe CNS infection (meningoencephalomyelitis). Mean value of sedimentation and CRP was slightly elevated (29.6 mm/1hours and 20.1 mg/L, respectively) in 80% of the patients, although elevation was almost negligible. The average number of leucocytes in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was 171×106/L, the mean value of the CSF protein was 1.1g/L. There were no fatal outcomes. Conclusion: Since other CNS infections have similar clinical picture and CSF finding as TBE, serological analysis for TBE should be included in routine diagnostic practice