Cities today play strategic roles in modernization processes as well as in the organization and operation of global economy.Big cities are the places where the conditions of modernisation, economic and social development, the operating conditions of global economy, the educated and qualified middle-class, members of the economic, political and cult
This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead aluminum lotion singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects.Our results show that Banks uses the dialect of the viewers during interviews.We see thi
Following the peace accord on 26 September 2016 between the Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), significant structural issues persisted in Colombia, such as read more state fragility, land distribution challenges, and rural impoverishment, all of which jeopardized sustainable peace.Previous disarmament events i
IntroductionPassive and active restoration approaches have been often considered as different alternatives to achieve the ecological restoration of a degraded site.This false dichotomy has been overcome in terrestrial ecosystems, for which a range of restoration approaches have often been applied within the same restoration project, creating a cont
Aim to striping noise brought by non-uniform response of remote sensing TDI CCD, a novel de-striping method based on statistical features of image histogram is put forward.By analysing the distribution of histograms,the centroid of histogram is selected to be an eigenvalue representing uniformity of ground objects,histogrammic centroid of whole ima