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The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world based on some researches covering the period between 1995 and 2015. The Philippines is surrounded with large bodies of water, making it prone to the most frequent/recurring disasters such as storms and landslides, aside from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This paper proposes a framework for the development of a mobile application...
This paper describes a novel initiative whose main goal is not only to encourage young students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); Although this is typically seen as the core of any STEM project, we aim at involving local administrations in the project, thus allowing to more easily disseminate and promote STEM areas among students' families and teachers...
We describe Malasakit 1.0 (meaning “sincere care” in Filipino), a customizable participatory assessment platform that collects and streamlines quantitative and qualitative analyses and insights of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. While supervised classification approaches offer opportunity to understand qualitative textual suggestions, those methods break down in areas like the Philippines,...
Brazil has 5.570 cities politically independent and yet entitled to manage urban land, no matter their technical or financial resources for that. Although informal land tenure is commonly associated to major metropolitan areas in Brazil, recent urbanization processes of cities inward the country's territory has led to informal land occupation of entire central districts. Informality is defined, in...
This paper presents a conceptual scientific approach, blending the elements of the project management theory, i.e. three selected schools of the Perspectives on Projects (Turner, Huemann, Anbari & Bredillet, 2010), pragmatic institutional economics, and reasoned action approach, to local economy development by way of projectized household asset building activities in the case of a depressed Russian...
The article presents the research results of the existing payment systems on urban passenger transport. The methodology for conducting a comparative analysis of travel payment systems has been proposed by authors. The criteria for their comparative evaluation has been formulated, the weight of each criterion has been determined for both groups of users. The rating of the payment systems has been determined...
The use of E-Government in achieving good governance has been done by government to serve citizen nowadays. However, not all local government were able to implement it. PeGI that has been used as a benchmark to check government's readiness rate in implementing E-Government can't describe all process that need to be assessed in developing local E-Government. Moreover, the emergence of social problems,...
This paper discusses an early warning system of wireless electronic information board based on frequency modulation (FM) radio to display the tsunami disaster risk visually. The system will be implemented in Cilacap District located on the confluence of two major plates. The display of proposed system is designed in multicolor using dot matrix panel P10 which has 32 × 16 pixels resolution. To be implementable...
Conflict of interests in industry-university-research cooperation is the root cause impeding the achievement of cooperation. To provide a basis for decision makers involved in this conflict, dynamic method of conflict analysis could be effectively utilized. Due to the difficulty to obtain preferences of decision makers influenced by several uncertain factors, interval grey number is introduced to...
In recent years, the number of foreign tourists who come to fruit picking in Japan is increasing. Japanese fruits are sweet and tasty. Especially strawberry picking is popular. However, there are few sources of information on strawberry picking in Japan, and there are no portal sites and apps. To improve this, we develop the portal smartphone app of strawberry picking that has English version. Information...
In the past years, the Philippines recorded different disasters in diverse parts of the archipelago. The most frequent natural disasters were floods and storms that bring hazards to the people. The country has high level of exposure to hydro-meteorological hazards due to its geography. Because of the frequency, intensity, and variability of the hazards the government is compelled to adopt disaster...
PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) can make full use of social idle funds and improve the efficiency of public goods supply. In recent years, PPP has been widely used in the field of infrastructure, but in 39 cities which with urban rail transit in only a few cities using the PPP. Therefore, exploring the triggering factors of PPP in urban rail transit has important theoretical and practical significance,...
The examination of a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies demonstrated that product market competition holds an external governance mechanism, which can reduce corporate cash flow risk. Considering different hierarchies of government control, this paper finds that compared with nongovernment controlled and local government controlled enterprises, product market competition creates a stronger...
This paper examines the payoff interplay between multiple stakeholders during rural development project evaluation. Drawing from the game theory, it analyzes the factors that influence the payoffs of local project officers and village cadres and the strategy they adopt by building mathematical models for the payoffs of different stakeholders and seeking the Nash-Equilibrium solution and the analytical...
In this research, we look for the possible reduction in vehicle kilometers that can be obtained when a cooperation of delivery companies has the ability to suggest network improvements to the local government. Different network changes are considered in our research: re-opening existing roads for the vehicles of the cooperation, widening roads in the network or converting existing roads into a one-way...
Generally for most of the countries developing border areas is very important concern. However, due to security issues, most of the countries are not interested to place important industries in border areas. Tourism development is the most suitable solution for developing boarder areas. People Republic of China and Russian Federation are among big countries in the world and their border is about 4159...
The purpose of this article is to study a widespread type of policy-led University Science Park in China and draw lessons for their future development. In recent years many University Science Parks sponsored by local governments have emerged in China, whose mission is to raise regional level of innovation and economic growth through promoting university-industry connections. We conduct an in-depth...
Public universities play an important role supporting local governments by providing applied technologies, specially if these cities or towns are located in remote zones, away from large urban centers. This fact involves producing cartography from UAV (RPAS / Drone) used in current photogrammetry can vary in terms of scale within a 1/1000–1/500 range, or even greater, due to aircrafts proximity to...
Nowadays, ecology and sustainable development are priority government's actions. In Europe, and more specifically in France, sustainable development (SD) is generally broken down into several distinct evaluation criteria. Each criterion is a requirement imposed by the government and corresponds to strategic stakes. When SD improvement actions are financed in an economic region or a city of the French...
Societal issues in cities concern many different stakeholders, all involved from different perspectives. In the context of deliberative democracy, this asks for a broad participation of stakeholders to influence and contribute to decision-making processes. We designed [X]Changing Perspectives, to explore how design might enrich deliberation with participatory sensemaking: the joint construction of...
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