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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"train stations"”.
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Bruce Price, and his Montreal train stations
… this thesis scrutinizes two of his Montreal train stations which were both built late in the nineteenth century. Windsor Station (1887-89) was constructed downtown, while Place Viger Station (1896-98) was Montreal's first major east end station. These two works provide tremendous contrast, …
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Optimized rostering of workforce subject to cyclic requirements
… to schedule a certain category of workers in train stations and selling points, rosters are designed to cover a cyclical demand. However, the highly combinatorial nature of the rostering problem makes it very difficult to solve manually, and experts spend a huge amount of time to derive …
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Feature extraction using two dimensional (2D) legendre wavelet filter for partial iris recognition
… in highly dense areas such as airports, train stations, and financial transactions. Evidence of these can be seen in some airports and also the implementation of these technologies in our mobile phones. Among the most popular biometric technologies include facial, fingerprints, and iris …
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Load balancing in heterogeneous wireless communications networks. Optimized load aware vertical handovers in satellite-terrestrial hybrid networks incorporating IEEE 802.21 media independent handover and cognitive algorithms.
… areas like town centres, shopping centres and train stations may have coverage of multiple wireless networks. Traditional Radio Access Technology (RAT) selection algorithms are mainly based on the ¿Always Best Connected¿ paradigm whereby the mobile nodes are always directed towards the …
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
… everyday waiting for public transport at train stations; the queues at the Department of Home Affairs regional office for South African Identity Document applications; and the waiting room of the Chapel Street Community Health Clinic. In relation to each of these sites, it engages the …
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Detecting Expertise Influence on Teamwork in Sustainable Urban Design Workshops through a System Model
… communities near transportation hubs, such as train stations, may play a vital role in enhancing neighborhoods by fostering new jobs, encouraging mixed-use developments, and promoting a cleaner environment. The engagement of experts and non-experts is often promoted as part of the urban …
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Moving Social Spaces: Public Transportation, Material Differences, and the Power of Mobile Communities in Chicago
… such as plazas, restaurants, sidewalks and train stations and does not give adequate attention to the impact of mobility. As one of the few places where people of different social classes and ethno-racial backgrounds encounter each other, public mobile spaces are sites of the replication of …
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Bridging the divide: Integrating the metro South East to the rest of the city through design
… resulting in traffic congestion and a large strain on the already limited public transport system. The formation of the current city alludes to very unequal, unjust and inaccessible city. This research project investgates the notion of 'Bridging the divide'. It explores ways in which we can …
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Mitigating Network Service Disruptions in High-bandwidth, Intermittently Connected, and Peer-to-Peer Networks
… more ubiquitous. When public transportation stations have access points to provide Internet access to passengers, public transportation becomes a more attractive travel and commute option. However, the Internet connectivity is intermittent because passengers can access the Internet only when …
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A distributed systems infrastructure for open public display research networks
… deployed in locations, such as airports, railway stations and shopping malls. These commercial deployments range from single displays in shop windows, to hundreds of displays in airports and train stations. In parallel, public display systems have provided researchers with a rich topic for …
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Balancing the scales : the impact of the built environment on the socioeconomic diversity of Metropolitan Boston
… presence of a mix of housing types. Location to train stations was insignificant, leading to the discovery that bus service is more associated with diverse communities than rapid transit. Additionally, the built environment was much more significant in explaining diversity in the suburbs than in …
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A Study on Sexual Behavior and Attitude among Soldiers
… from 165 traveling ROK soldiers at two train stations and three bus terminals in S city, and from 165 USA soldiers working at army camp in P and D city. I used existing research tools for sexual attitude (Valois et al. 1980) and for sexual behavior (Hwi Sook Jang, 1995). Real number, …
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Harmony
An exploration of harmony in architecture, design, and sustainable community development.
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Design of MAC protocols to support quality of service for multimedia traffic in wireless LANs
… of “hotspots” in public places such as airports, train stations, shopping complexes and private organisation such as universities and hospitals, and also at many homes where the use of wireless routers is very common. As more users embrace WLAN technology, the demand for more advanced services …