Sentence examples for settlement model from inspiring English sources

The relationship between visibility and land use varies however with the viewing distance and settlement model.

Ruan et al. (2014) employed a modified thermal settlement model to perform a risk zonation of thermal settlement hazard and found that high-risk areas by 2050 are the Chumarhe high plain, Wudaoliang, and Kaixinling areas.

The area of San Diego city close to the border with Mexico presents numerous informal settlements that are growing at a much faster rate than that in progress in the central areas of the city and based on the informal settlement model of Tijuana.

New geochemical data, based on laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of obsidian artifacts associated with discrete house floors, support this basic settlement model, but reveal new detail in how people moved across the landscape and accessed, extracted, reduced and used obsidian resources.

This study uses the tenets of central place foraging theory to build a multi-scalar settlement model for the Santa Barbara Channel of southern California, where rising sea levels during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene erased a large portion of the existing archaeological record and studies of macrobotanical remains are limited.

This matrix represents a settlement model that involved only one major human entrance into the continent, with the morphological variability seen in the Americas through time being the result of in-situ microevolutionary processes.

Settlement models and geographical site analysis contribute to the understanding of the ecological functioning of the landscape.

In contrast to conventional archaeological GIS applications this enhanced strategy offers promising prospects regarding landscape and settlement modelling.

Even more so when faced with the growing variety of current settlement models (informal city, urban sprawl, urban archipelago, megalopolis, megacity (Shane 2011).

The results of a 3-dimensional polyurethane ballasted track reinforcement technique called XiTRACK, at an equivalent axle load of 44.4 tonnes, are then directly compared to the unreinforced settlement profile using developed settlement models from the tests.

In this paper we try to reconstruct settlement models for the late Pleistocene and Holocene occupation in this area and speculate about potential land use patterns.