Dynamic Forecasting of Travel Demand, Residential Location and Land Development

The project "Nested Dynamics of Metropolitan Processes and Policies" was initiated by the Regional & Urban Development Group in 1982, and the work on this collaborative study started in 1983. The series "Contributions to the Metropolitan Study" is a means of conveying information between the collaborators in the network of the project. This paper is the first of these contributions and presents the CATLAS-model (The Chicago Area Transportation-Land Use Analysis System] which is a dynamic large-scale urban simulation model for forecasting the effect of transportation system changes on travel mode choices, residential location, housing values and housing stock adjustment. CATLAS has been applied to cost-benefit analysis of several subway projects proposed for the southwest side of Chicago. Currently, the model is being implemented to analyze the transportation system in Stockholm, and plans exist to extend this type of cross-city implementation to several other regions in the project

Chinese Calligraphy: An American Chinese\u27s Perspective

Humanities is the study of culture, history, literature and philosophy. Through a journey of self-­‐revelation and research, Chinese calligraphy will be introduced as more than just a form of art as Westerners see it. Having a basic practical knowledge of Calligraphy, I’ve researched and embellished upon that knowledge. Calligraphy is a long known form of writing, with many styles. Calligraphers from Ancient China reveal their feelings that it is an expression of who they are

Supraspinal characterization of the thermal grill illusion with fMRI.

BackgroundSimultaneous presentation of non-noxious warm (40°C) and cold (20°C) stimuli in an interlacing fashion results in a transient hot burning noxious sensation (matched at 46°C) known as the thermal grill (TG) illusion. Functional magnetic resonance imaging and psychophysical assessments were utilized to compare the supraspinal events related to the spatial summation effect of three TG presentations: 20°C/20°C (G2020), 20°C/40°C (G2040) and 40°C/40°C (G4040) with corresponding matched thermode stimuli: 20°C (P20), 46°C (P46) and 40°C (P40) and hot pain (HP) stimuli.ResultsFor G2040, the hot burning sensation was only noted during the initial off-line assessment. In comparison to P40, G4040 resulted in an equally enhanced response from all supraspinal regions associated with both pain sensory/discriminatory and noxious modulatory response. In comparison to P20, G2020 presentation resulted in a much earlier diminished/sedative response leading to a statistically significantly (P < 0.01) higher degree of deactivation in modulatory supraspinal areas activated by G4040. Granger Causality Analysis showed that while thalamic activation in HP may cast activation inference in all hot pain related somatosensory, affective and modulatory areas, similar activation in G2040 and G2020 resulted in deactivation inference in the corresponding areas.ConclusionsIn short, the transient TG sensation is caused by a dissociated state derived from non-noxious warm and cold spatial summation interaction. The observed central dissociated state may share some parallels in certain chronic neuropathic pain states

INSPIRESat-1 Nanosat Mission

The INSPIRE, International Satellite Program in Research and Education, is a group of six institutes namely Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), USA, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), India, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Le Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), France. Three institutions LASP, IIST and NCU are developing the first satellite of the program called the INSPIRESat-1, whose mission details and design are presented in this paper. The paper gives the details of payload, its mode of operations and its interface with other subsystems, Command and Data Handling (C&DH) system and its capabilities, Electrical Power Supply (EPS) subsystem, access and power analysis, and modes of operation. It also describes Flight Software (FSW), communication, Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS), and structures

Explore the Functional Connectivity between Brain Regions during a Chemistry Working Memory Task.

Previous studies have rarely examined how temporal dynamic patterns, event-related coherence, and phase-locking are related to each other. This study assessed reaction-time-sorted spectral perturbation and event-related spectral perturbation in order to examine the temporal dynamic patterns in the frontal midline (F), central parietal (CP), and occipital (O) regions during a chemistry working memory task at theta, alpha, and beta frequencies. Furthermore, the functional connectivity between F-CP, CP-O, and F-O were assessed by component event-related coherence (ERCoh) and component phase-locking (PL) at different frequency bands. In addition, this study examined whether the temporal dynamic patterns are consistent with the functional connectivity patterns across different frequencies and time courses. Component ERCoh/PL measured the interactions between different independent components decomposed from the scalp EEG, mixtures of time courses of activities arising from different brain, and artifactual sources. The results indicate that the O and CP regions' temporal dynamic patterns are similar to each other. Furthermore, pronounced component ERCoh/PL patterns were found to exist between the O and CP regions across each stimulus and probe presentation, in both theta and alpha frequencies. The consistent theta component ERCoh/PL between the F and O regions was found at the first stimulus and after probe presentation. These findings demonstrate that temporal dynamic patterns at different regions are in accordance with the functional connectivity patterns. Such coordinated and robust EEG temporal dynamics and component ERCoh/PL patterns suggest that these brain regions' neurons work together both to induce similar event-related spectral perturbation and to synchronize or desynchronize simultaneously in order to swiftly accomplish a particular goal. The possible mechanisms for such distinct component phase-locking and coherence patterns were also further discussed

Nivel de calidad en la traducción del inglés al español de textos odontológicos de egresados de una universidad particular, Lima 2018

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar el nivel de calidad en la traducción del inglés al español de textos odontológicos de egresados de una universidad particular, Lima 2018. Esta investigación es de tipo descriptiva, diseño no experimental con un enfoque cuantitativo. La muestra estuvo constituida por 20 egresados de una universidad particular de Lima. Como instrumento de evaluación se utilizará un test de traducción, esta traducción se evaluó mediante un baremo adaptado. Ambos instrumentos fueron sometidos al juicio de expertos para comprobar su validez y confiabilidad. Como resultado se obtuvo que los egresados tuvieron un nivel de calidad optimo en la traducción del inglés al español de textos odontológicos