How minimum parking requirements make housing more expensive

Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive?

AIMS To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply system being targeted. METHOD Review of empirical studies. FINDINGS Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raisin...

Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking: An Opportunity to Reduce Minimum Parking Requirements

How to Make AADL Specification More Precise

AADL (Architectural Analysis and Design Language) is a textual and graphical language used to design and analyze software architecture of embedded real time systems. Many tools and models provide semantics and precise meaning for AADL architecture behavior. However, they are not supported by a well defined formal semantics. This paper suggets Rewriting Logic via its practical language Maude as ...

How to make stream processing more mainstream

Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya∗ Gordon Brebner†, Johan Eker‡, Jörn W. Janneck†, Marco Mattavelli§, Mickaël Raulet¶ ∗ Dept. of ECE and UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, [email protected] † Xilinx Research Labs, San Jose, CA 95123, {gordon.brebner,jorn.janneck}@xilinx.com ‡ Ericsson Research, Mobile Platforms, SE-221 83 Lund, Sweden, [email protected] § Microelectronic Systems Lab,...

How to Make Lisp More Special

Common Lisp provides generalized places that can be assigned via the SETF macro, and provides ways to hook into SETF. Past attempts to extend this to rebinding places, similar to “special” variables, lead to potentially incorrect behavior: New “bindings” are created by side effects, and therefore affect all threads that access the same places. Instead of storing values directly we can store sym...