The Impact of Growth Management Policies on Urban Form: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas with Growth Management Policies

The contemporary urban development pattern in the United States is characterized by land consumptive nature of development, such as a sprawled development pattern. Out of concern that the social and environmental costs of this development pattern outweigh their benefits, cities, counties and states have created a wide range of policy instruments designed to manage urban growth and to protect open spaces from development. The present research deals with such strategies in three study areas namely Portland Metropolitan Area, OR; Montgomery County, MD; and Orange County, FL in order to find out if growth management strategies have been able to reduce sprawl and promote a compact form of development. Based mainly on secondary sources of information, the research evaluates the characteristics, effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses of selected growth management strategies employed in each of these areas and analyses their implications for promoting a compact form of development

Resource Management and Scheduling for Big Data Applications in Cloud Computing Environments

This chapter presents software architectures of the big data processing platforms. It will provide an in-depth knowledge on resource management techniques involved while deploying big data processing systems on cloud environment. It starts from the very basics and gradually introduce the core components of resource management which we have divided in multiple layers. It covers the state-of-art practices and researches done in SLA-based resource management with a specific focus on the job scheduling mechanisms.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figure

Firm size and job creation: evidence from Turkey

This study examines the relationship between firm size and job creation by using an extensive data set covering all non-farm Turkish businesses with 20 or more employees from 2003 to 2010. We find that small firms (firms with employees between 20 and 100 employees) have higher mean job flow rates (job creation, job destruction and net job creation rates) than large firms. Firm size and job flow rates are inversely related, and this relationship is especially prominent for firms with 50 employees or more. Although the overall pattern observed is also observed in both sectors, job creation rates in services are higher than the ones in manufacturing. The magnitudes of job destruction rates are comparable across sectors. Higher job creation rate in services but comparable job destruction rate results in higher net job creation rate in services. As for shares, only for smaller firms (20-49 and 50-99 size categories), job creation shares are greater than their shares in employment. But these firms have disproportionate job destruction shares as well. We also find that only the 20-49 category firms contribute to net job creation more than their share in employment. The smaller firms have high disproportionate shares in job creation and destruction in manufacturing and services as well

The Permanent Settlement and the landed interests in Bengal, from 1793 to 1819.

The present thesis on the problems of agricultural development in Bengal during the period from 1920/21 to 1945/46 is divided into two parts. The first part, consisting of three chapters, is devoted to an examination of the crop statistics and the analysis of trends in crop output and its two determinants - acreage under cultivation and yield per acre. In the first chapter a close look is taken at the quality of the officially published data in the light of the statistics available from independent sources. The proposed plan of revision of the data and other procedural problems are also discussed in this chapter. Trend rates of the output, acreage and yield of all the crops taken together and the two groups of food crops and non-food crops are analysed in Chapter II. The discussion is taken a step further in Chapter III where the trend rates of all the individual crops are examined. Further, an attempt is made in these last two chapters to explain the divergent experience in food crops and non-food crops and among the five regional units of Bengal. The second part of the thesis, consisting of four chapters, is devoted to an examination of the factors which directly or indirectly influenced the trends in agricultural production. In Chapter IV an attempt is made to estimate the price-elasticity of the acreage under the cultivation of all the crops taken together and five major individual crops. This is followed by an analysis of the trends in four important items of physical capital (land, animal power, ploughs and houses) involved in Bengal agriculture. These trends are compared with those in total labour force engaged in agriculture and crop output. In Chapter VI the problem of agricultural credit is discussed and a quantitative picture about the progress of Co-operative Credit Movement presented. Finally, in Chapter VII some questions are raised as to why the Bengal landlords were not instrumental in improving agriculture. These questions relate to such aspects of the objective economic conditions which had direct bearing on the investment behaviour of the landlords

The Development of Islamic (Participation) Banking in Bangladesh and Its Contribution to the Economy

İslami bankacılık, başta ekonomi alanı olmak üzere toplumsal açıdan da insanlığa sağlamış olduğu sayısız faydaların bir sonucu olarak dünya çapında giderek popülerlik kazanmaktadır. Benzer şekilde, İslami bankacılık son zamanlarda Bangladeş'in finans sektörünün odak noktası olmuştur. İslami bankacılık sisteminin performans üstünlüğünün bir sonucu olarak, birçok geleneksel banka İslami hukuk tabanlı (çalışma) sistemlerine dönüştürülmüştür. Bu çalışmanın amacı Bangladeş’te İslami bankacılık sektörünün gelişimini araştırmak ve katkılarını değerlendirmektir. Makalede akademik makaleler, ders kitapları, raporlar, web siteleri gibi ikincil kaynaklardan yararlanılmış ve finansal oran analizi kullanılmıştır. Çalışma, İslami bankaların, küresel durgunluk ve diğer engellere rağmen, Bangladeş'teki tüm bankacılık sektöründe yaklaşık %28 (dörtte birden fazla) pazar payı ve İslami bankacılık sektöründe 49.433'den fazla çalışanı ile geleneksel bankalardan daha iyi performans gösterdiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Ayrıca, Bangladeş’te bağımsız bir İslami bankacılık yasası ve merkezi bir İslam hukuku kurulu olmamasına rağmen hızla ilerleme gösterdiği ve İslami bankacılığın Bangladeş'te muazzam bir potansiyele sahip olduğu sonucuna varmıştır

Agricultural development of Bengal: A quantitative study, 1920-1946.

The main focus of this study, which consists of eight chapters, is upon the changes in the structure of the landed society of Bengal under the operation of the Permanent Settlement. We have changes which occurred in the powers and privileges of the landed interest, in the ownership of land which was then the basic foundation of the Bengali society, and changes in the methods of estate management and also in the lifestyle of the landed class. The first, introductory, chapter deals with the scope of this work and of the sources upon which it is based. The second chapter deals with the zamindars' reactions to the various changes in their traditional powers and privileges as brought about by the system of the Permanent Settlement. The third chapter attempts to show how a dozen great families who controlled a little more than half of the landed property of Bengal in terms of the government revenue demand were affected under the operation of the Permanent Settlement. The fourth chapter is devoted to general transfer of land and the fifth chapter looks at the emergence of new landed families consequent upon the collapse of the old under the operation of the sale laws. The sixth chapter, then, examines whether or not any marked changes in the methods of estate management took place as a result of the entry of the new men of capital and enterprise into land. The seventh chapter attempts to look at the life style of the zamindars with a view to finding whether or not they changed their mode of life in view of their changed positions under the regulations of the Permanent Settlement. Finally, the eighth chapter summarises the important findings of this study

Energy Efficient Handover Management in Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensors are compact-size, low power, inexpensive devices which are capable to measure local environmental conditions or other parameters such as temperature, acceleration, and forward such information to a sink for proper processing. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been under development by both academic and industrial societies for a while. By moving toward applications such as the area of medical care and disaster response mobility in wireless sensor networks has attracted a lot of attentions. In energy constraint sensor network, mobility handling introduces unique challenges in aspects like resource management, coverage, routing protocols, security, etc. This paper, proposes an energy-efficient mobility-aware MAC protocol to handle node handover among different clusters. The simulation-based experiments show that the proposed protocol has better performance compared to the existing S-MAC method

Energy Efficient Handover Management in Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensors are compact-size, low power, inexpensive devices which are capable to measure local environmental conditions or other parameters such as temperature, acceleration, and forward such information to a sink for proper processing. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been under development by both academic and industrial societies for a while. By moving toward applications such as the area of medical care and disaster response mobility in wireless sensor networks has attracted a lot of attentions. In energy constraint sensor network, mobility handling introduces unique challenges in aspects like resource management, coverage, routing protocols, security, etc. This paper, proposes an energy-efficient mobility-aware MAC protocol to handle node handover among different clusters. The simulation-based experiments show that the proposed protocol has better performance compared to the existing S-MAC method