The EPA-funded Urban Environment Project seeks to apply MOLAND, a cellular automata based model, to predict a range of urban impacts in the Greater Dublin Region from 2006 onwards. One quantitative requirement,
at least ...
Vaz Silva, Luis(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)
Past population dynamics in Africa have remained largely elusive due to the lack of demographic data. Researchers are understandably deterred from trying to explain what is not known and African historical population ...
Kernel density estimators are a non-parametric method of
estimating the probability density function of sample data. In this paper, the
method is applied to find characteristic maximum daily truck weights on
highway ...
Ranked preference data arise when a set of judges rank, in order of their preference, a set of objects. Such data arise in preferential voting systems and market
research surveys. Covariate data associated with the judges ...
Silva, Luis Vaz(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-05)
Recent years have seen a significant improvement in the economic performance of some African countries. The resulting increased dispersion in income levels across Africa, combined with the pertinence of detecting regional ...
Economic theory predicts that the current change in national wealth, broadly defined to include natural and human capital as well as produced capital ("genuine savings"), determines whether the present value of future ...
This paper reports on research conducted to analyse the impact of two noise mitigation
measures on levels of population exposure in Dublin, Ireland: travel demand and speed reduction. At the outset, the research utilises ...
The lack of other data has made fiscally motivated house counts the main basis of pre-censal Irish population estimates in the past. The source is potentially treacherous: in this paper spatial autocorrelation analysis of ...
Edelman, David(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-04-18)
A quantity known as the Local Cross-Entropy (LCE) for a density is proposed, defined
to be the local derivative of the Cross-Entropy between a density and a ’kernel-smoothed’ version of itself, with respect to bandwidth ...
This paper reviews and interprets recent demographic trends and prospects in the two Irelands, North and South. We discuss both the influence of religion on demographic behaviour, and the impact of demographic trends on ...