Places From The Past Lost In New Towns: Hong Kong’s Old Villages

Portuguese e-government initiatives: villages, towns, cities and the constitutions

Traditionally, the interaction between government agencies and citizens or companies was made in governmental buildings, where a public employee receives all the requests. This scenario is gradually changing and evolving because of the rapid growth of use of new communication technologies. Thanks to this, the government-citizens interaction has been moving to considerably closer to the citizen,...

Encouragement of Settlement and PopulationAttracting in the New Towns – Egypt

The Egyptian new towns experience is among the most comprehensive and ambitious, regionallyand worldwide. Initiated as a governmental policy within a general strategy to tackle the multitude of problemsburdening Egyptian settlements in general and major and secondary cities surrounded by agricultural land. New townswere thought as an effective partial solution for the problems of: encroachment ...

Splicing Systems from Past to Future: Old and New Challenges

A splicing system is a formal model of a recombinant behaviour of sets of double stranded DNA molecules when acted on by restriction enzymes and ligase. In this survey we will concentrate on a specific behaviour of a type of splicing systems, introduced by Păun and subsequently developed by many researchers in both linear and circular case of splicing definition. In particular, we will present ...

Note on the Variations in the Incidence of Cholera on the Population of Towns and Villages

Notes on the Variations in the Incidence of Cholera on the Population of Towns and Villages

Cases per 1,000 living ... Deaths per cent, of cases Deaths per 1,000 living ... All a?es.