Thesis (M.S.)--Baylor University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-55).

Diss. : Juristische Fakultät : Erlangen-Nürnberg : 1985. - Le mot misthosis dans le titre est en caractères grecs. - Bibliogr. p. XV-XLIII. -

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Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Daniel A. Andresen / People always want know the whereabouts of their loved ones. They want to make sure everything is fine and that they are safe all the time. In this modern age, almost everyone owns a smart phone, which they tend to keep on them all the time. By using these smartphones, we can locate a person anywhere in this world. Android is open source software stack and has the highest smart phone user base. Hence, this application is developed in android. The Family Tracker is an android Application used for finding whereabouts of a person in the most efficient and simple manner. Here we will be having guardians and subjects (users), where users add other people as their guardians. When the user does not lift the phone, the details of his location are sent to the guardian in the form of an SMS. Here the address along with the location link will be sent, using which we can locate it in the map. Guardian can also get the location of user by sending out an SMS to his phone. A one click messaging service is also implemented in this application through which guardian can send message to user’s friends in one click for further inquiry. In order to make this application more helpful for the users, Geo-Fencing is implemented through which guardian can know whether the subject is in or around a particular place (location) of interest (Ex: a university).

The purpose of the study is to show that only predetermined industrial location within a regional framework will assist the developing countries to achieve their industrialization goals. The study of this regional approach to industrial location in the developing countries is undertaken because it is felt that location of industries is one of the problems of the industrialization process in the developing countries, and that there is a need for an approach which the developing countries can use to achieve their industrialization goals of full employment, higher income per capita, and earning or saving foreign exchange. In order to investigate this regional approach to industrial location, it is necessary to make some preliminary considerations of the various concepts involved. The term 'the developing countries' is defined, and the role of industrialization in economic development of these countries is indicated. Location of industries is shown as one of the problems of industrialization, and methods of analyzing the problem of industrial location are examined. The importance of the concept of predetermined industrial location within a regional framework necessitates a review of the concept and its application in Puerto Rico. These preliminary considerations form the basis of the appreciation of the problems of industrial location, which the developing countries must consider in their national industrial development policies. These problems are: the selection of industries and of industrial locations, and the provision of the facilities necessary to support industrial locations. The consideration of the problems of industrial location provides an opportunity for relating the regional approach to industrial location to the case study area, namely, the Accra Plains in Ghana. In this regard, Ghana's national industrialization goals are identified; the settlement pattern, the economy and the resources of the region are examined to show the extent to which industries could be developed to achieve the national industrialization goals. A regional plan prepared for this region is also evaluated. It is observed that the planning consultants recommended industrial concentration only in four large urban centres in Ghana with complete disregard for the smaller urban centres and the rural areas, and that the implementation of such a recommendation would tend to widen further the existing gap between the living standards of the people in these large urban areas and the rest of the country. Only these four centres were selected as points of industrial concentration because industrial location was predetermined within a national framework. It is concluded that only predetermined industrial location within a regional framework will assist Ghana to achieve her industrialization goals, since the use of such an approach would enable the country to examine the resources and the needs of all the urban and the rural areas. It is emphasized that although the regional approach to industrial location will assist the developing countries to achieve their industrialization goals, nevertheless this approach must take cognizance of the national development goals and be related to local economic, social, and physical conditions. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

The main purpose of this thesis was to analyze industrial location factors and their influence on the industrial development of a particular area. The first half of the thesis contained a review of the literature on the location of industry followed by an analysis of some of the basic industrial location factors which have been instrumental in the location and development of American industries. In the second half of the thesis an attempt was made to relate these findings to the situation in Indonesia, and to evaluate any correlation or disparity which may exist. It was found that in general the same industrial location factors would apply in both cases, but that their relative importance would vary. This could be explained partly by the difference in the form of government of both countries, and partly by the difference in the stage of industrialization. Other factors such as the nature of the people was also important. Indonesia's industrial location factors were then considered with respect to their potentialities to aid in the industrial development. It was found that Indonesia's natural resources could provide a basis for this development, but that much would still be required to transform them into usable resources. Indonesia lacks many basic facilities. It has little technical and managerial skill and meagre capital, all of which limit industrial growth. This situation is aggravated by the presence of some of the more fundamental economic problems, such as the problem of population, the problem of low income, and also the problem of low productivity. A solution to these problems must be found before Indonesia can begin to develop industrially. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

This thesis is a study of railway relocation and subsequent commercial redevelopment in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The primary purpose of the study is to test the hypothesis that railway relocation in a western Canadian city could prove beneficial to such a City in terms of community objectives. The City of Saskatoon is utilized as a case study. A secondary purpose, upon validation of the hypothesis, is to attempt the use of Saskatoon's experience as a bench-mark in determining the feasibility of railway relocation in other Saskatchewan cities. In order to place the City in its proper historical and developmental context, the history of Saskatoon is briefly traced from its origin in 1882 to the present. This review pictures Saskatoon as a dynamic urban center with a relatively bright future. A detailed review of events and negotiations leading up to the joint decision by the City and the C.N.R. to relocate railway facilities from downtown Saskatoon indicates that the primary community objectives involved were consolidation of the downtown area and improvement of access to the downtown area. These and other objectives are discussed in detail and analyzed in terms of their relevance and where possible, in terms of the magnitude of costs associated with achievement of a particular objective. The impact of the commercial development proposed for construction in the area vacated by the C.N.R. is demonstrated in terms of its effect on the supply of downtown retail space as opposed to the projected demand. On the basis of certain explicit assumptions, this analysis predicts an excess supply of retail floor space for a period of eight years. Quantifiable costs and benefits to the City attributable to relocation are compared with the resulting conclusion that, on the basis of current estimates, benefits accruing from relocation will yield a 9½% return on the City's investment by 1984. A subjective evaluation of non-quantifiable costs and benefits results in the further conclusion that benefits will again exceed costs. The aggregate conclusion, which validates the hypothesis, is that railway relocation in Saskatoon will prove beneficial to the City in terms of community objectives. The key factors which led to consideration of railway relocation in Saskatoon and which made the project viable were the dynamic nature of the city; the relative location of railway facilities; demand for retail space, and the location of railway rights-of-way relative to the location of required traffic facilities. These factors are tested against four other cities in Saskatchewan; Regina, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, and Swift Current. Of the four, only Regina is consistantly comparable to Saskatoon, leading to the conclusion that detailed investigation of railway relocation from downtown Regina is warranted.It is further concluded that railway relocation from other Canadian cities might be equally feasible, and certainly worthy of further study. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

The influence of economies of agglomeration on location decisions has been debated since it was advanced by Alfred Weber in 1909. Empirical findings at the international, national, and regional levels do not definitely support the efficacy of such economies. No study has been done at a local level, the one inherently appropriate to the Weber premise. Further, most studies have used highly generalized manufacturing groupings. The importance of intra-industry and inter-industry determinants of spatial proximity in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area was investigated in this study. The data base included 220 industries with 2,111 firms employing 108,295 workers. National input-output transaction tables were used to generate measures of intra-industry and inter-industry technological linkage at the 4 digit Standard Industrial Code classification level. Nearest neighbor statistics were employed to measure the spatial proximity of firms within an industry. A spatial association measure, the local concentration coefficient, was devised to calculate spatial proximity among manufacturing firm pairs in various linkage relationships. Then, multiple linear regression was used to examine the relationships of intra- and inter-industry linkages to spatial proximity. Average firm size, material and market orientations, and transportation and utility cost intensities were treated as covariates in the analysis. A total of 25 models involving the covariates and various combinations of forward and backward linkages were executed. In 23 cases, the models and effects of linkages were insignificant. The observed influence of the covariates was generally insignificant. Clearly, economies of agglomeration have no effect on industrial patterns in this analysis. Further, the poor performance of the covariates suggest that application of existing theory to localized manufacturing plan selection processes may be misplaced. While these factors may function at the regional or national level, they do not on an intrametropolitan level, at least in this case. Seeking the specific factor of manufacturing linkage based economies of agglomeration or external economies may be a rare exception in location behavior in general and particularly inoperative at a local level. Local development policies which are premised on maximizing such economies are, accordingly, not supported by this research.

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