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Analyzing the role of geospatial technology in smart city development -- Part II: Urban expansion and infrastructure -- The dark side of the earth: Benchmarking lighting access for all cities on Earth and the citynet dataset -- Object-oriented approach for urbanization growth by using remote sensing and Gis techniques: A case study in Hilla city, Babylon Governorate, Iraq -- Designing the streets for smart cities -- An automated approach to facilitate rooftop solar Pv installation in smart cities: Acomparative study between Bhopal, India and Trondheim, Norway -- Analyzing and predicting urban expansion and its effects on surface temperature for two Indian megacities: Bengaluru and Chennai -- Analyzing new frontiers in urban preference and perception research -- Land transformation and future projections of land consumption using high resolution remote sensing data for Allahabad, India -- The meta-analysis of studies on urban sprawl -- Four-dimensional slum urban simulation using hologram interferometry of Envisat satellite -- Geospatial technologies for public health management system -- Utilisation of geo spatial technology to study the variation in access of urban health care centres in Kamrup Metro, Assam -- Geo-spatial analysis of health care service centres for smart cities: A study of South East district, Delhi-India -- Usage of transport apps by Indian commuters: An empirical investigation -- Parking maximums and work place levies: Time to adopt new paradigms in India, the case of Kochi -- Assessing to append homeless people to plan smart regions to be more inclusive -- Part II: Urban ecology and disaster management -- Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation -- An information and communication technology (ICT) driven disaster management system: A case of fire-fighting in Mumbai -- Selection of suitable site for biomedical waste disposal in Lucknow city, India using remote sensing data, GIS and AHP method -- How does tourism affect urban ecological standards? A geospatial analysis of wetland transformations in the coastal resort town of Digha, West Bengal, India -- Urban housing in Itanagar: Mountain geomorphology, hazard vulnerability vis-à-vis smart city framework -- Hydrogeological studies of urban-rural interface in the northwest part of Pune Metropolis, India -- Ground water analytics for measuring quality and quantity -- Status of ground water quality in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan: A geospatial approach -- Green infrastructure as a tool for improving livability of area based development projects under smart city mission -- Evaluating decadal change in green cover of Dehradun city -- Summary and way forward.

In the present paper, an attempt has been made to estimate the compliance burden (i.e. expenditure on various tax-activities like record-keeping, fees paid to professionals etc.) borne by individual assessees in India. From the various activities considered in this study that involves cost, it can be concluded that for most of the tax-activities, the median values reveals a monetary burden of up to Rs. 1000. Time burden for tackling income tax issues varies between 26 and 50 hours. The study of certain specified reasons governing the use of professional's services showed that Indian taxpayers are more concerned about the complexity and frequent changes in income tax laws. The findings suggest that there is a need to extend the use of withholding taxes besides other measures like taxpayer education programs, simplification of tax laws etc.

This study aims to investigate the psycho-social factors responsible for the formation of perception about the job environment. The descriptive research design is used to carry out this study. The study's independent variables include 'Communication with superiors', 'Group or collective tasks' and 'Informal groups at workplace'. The study established that psycho-social factors positively affect the trust environment of the workplace. Also, mutual trust level mediates between three independent variables (psycho-social factors) and perceived job environment. The implication of this study is primarily for the management of the business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) sectors. The study highlights that an environment of trust with frequent and informal communication helps to build positivity in the minds of employees. Management can work on these fronts to improve employee retention strategies. Efforts should be made to embrace the activities, which strengthen the trust environment at the workplace.

The paper reports the development of a scale for assessing the ethical framework used by individual Indian managers. Construct definitions were developed and items were generated and evaluated for content validity. After an initial content validation process, the scale was tested through a structured questionnaire with a sample of 319 managers. A varimax rotated factor analysis of the data yielded two neat factors – a religious and a pragmatic framework. The two factors showed factor stability and high reliability coefficients. The criterion validity of the measure was also established by relating individual ethical frameworks with ethical decision making in given situations. The implications of the results are discussed and conclusions are drawn about the new measure in the Indian context.

For any $\mu _{j}\ (\mu _{j}\in \mathbb{C},\left\vert \mu _{j}\right\vert =1,j=1,2)$, we consider the rotations $f_{\mu _{1}}$ and $F_{\mu _{2}}$ of right half-plane harmonic mappings $f,F\in S_{\mathcal{H}}$ which are CHD with the prescribed dilatations $\omega _{f}(z)=\left( a-z\right) /\left(1-az\right) $ for some $a$ $\left( -1<a<1\right) $ and $\omega _{F}(z)=$ $e^{i\theta }z^{n}$ $\left( n\in \mathbb{N},\theta \in \mathbb{R}\right) $, $\omega _{F}(z)=$ $\left( b-z\right) /\left( 1-bz\right) $, $\omega_{F}(z)=\left( b-ze^{i\phi }\right) /\left( 1-bze^{i\phi }\right) $ $(-1<b<1,\phi \in \mathbb{R})$, respectively. It is proved that the convolution $f_{\mu _{1}}\ast F_{\mu _{2}}\in S_{\mathcal{H}}$ and is convex in the direction of $\overline{\mu _{1}\mu _{2}}$ under certain conditions on the parameters involved.

Volumetric muscle loss (VML) injuries, by definition, exceed the endogenous repair capacity of skeletal muscle resulting in permanent structural and functional deficits. VML injuries present a significant burden for both civilian and military medicine. Despite progress, there is still considerable room for therapeutic improvement. In this regard, tissue-engineered constructs show promise for VML repair, as they provide an opportunity to introduce both scaffolding and cellular components. We have pioneered the development of a tissue-engineered muscle repair (TEMR) technology created by seeding muscle progenitor cells onto a porcine-derived bladder acellular matrix followed by cyclic stretch preconditioning before implantation. Our work to date has demonstrated significant functional repair (60–90% functional recovery) in progressively larger rodent models of VML injury following TEMR implantation. Notwithstanding this success, TEMR implantation in cylindrically shaped VML injuries in the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle was associated with more variable functional outcomes than has been observed in sheet-like muscles such as the latissimus dorsi. In fact, previous observations documented a dichotomy of responses following TEMR implantation in a rodent TA VML injury model; with an ≈61% functional improvement observed in fewer than half (46%) of TEMR-implanted animals at 12 weeks postinjury. This current study builds directly from those observations as we modified the geometry of both the VML injury and the TEMR construct to determine if improved matching of the implanted TEMR construct to the surgically created VML injury resulted in increased functional recovery posttreatment. Following these modifications, we observed a comparable degree of functional improvement in a larger proportion of animals (≈67%) that was durable up to 24 weeks post-TEMR implantation. Moreover, in ≈25% of all TEMR-implanted animals, functional recovery was virtually complete (TEMR max responders), and furthermore, the functional recovery in ...