This article is about the institutional collaboration in the management structure of a city-region. To achieve this purpose, corporate limits of Qazvin are studied as the city is becoming a region.  The possible institutional cooperative in the centralist governmental structure is planned based on the new regionalism theory and its governance pattern, new institutionalism theory and its emphas...

With the rapid proliferation of digital consumer electronics in homes, using powerline communications (PLC) for home networking is getting increasing attention. Consequently, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance has released a new generation of the HomePlug standard, HomePlug AV, which is intended to support the emerging multimedia applications. This article discusses the challenges posed by PLC cha...

SOME INSTITUTIONAL REALITIES Paul Crompton "Responsibility for making assessements and devising strategies must be with local housing authorities. They are well established as providers and managers of rented housing but their role goes further. By statute their responsibility exte~ to securing adequate housing in their localities. They are therefore concerned with the broad formulation and exe...

In this paper we in corporate monitoring and enforcement aspects in the choice of environmental policy instruments in a general equilibrium framework. Goulder et al. (JPE, 1999) look into the choice of policy instruments in the presence of distortionary taxes. We extend this model by no longer assuming full compliance from the firms. A violating firm is caught with a certain probability by the ...

There was never a clear interpretation of modern architecture in Chinese history. Socialism ended five thousand years of feudalism. Cultural Revolution wiped out any sense of cultural continuity. The sudden return of market economy flooded the country with Western influence. These drastic social changes provided the driving force for a new national identity. However, the rapidly economic growth...

The present paper intends to examine the four most important approaches to institutions as they now prevail in the economic literature. These are: the transaction-cost approach, the principal-agent approach, the equilibrium-of-thegame approach, and the evolutionary approach. Each approach will be succinctly presented and, in a second step, the question as to whether institutions can be ineffici...

Stellar fluxes from the 2MASS catalog are used to remove the contribution due to Galactic stars from the intensity measured by DIRBE in four regions in the North and South Galactic polar caps. After subtracting the interplanetary and Galactic foregrounds, a consistent residual intensity of 14.8 ± 4.6 kJy sr −1 or 20.2 ± 6.3 nW m −2 sr −1 at 2.2 µm is found. At 1.25 µm the residuals show more sc...

More Nuanced Informed Consent Is Not Necessarily Better Informed Consent Danielle Hornstein, Sharon Nakar, Sara Weinberger & Dov Greenbaum To cite this article: Danielle Hornstein, Sharon Nakar, Sara Weinberger & Dov Greenbaum (2015) More Nuanced Informed Consent Is Not Necessarily Better Informed Consent, The American Journal of Bioethics, 15:9, 51-53, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1062167 To lin...

In order that students become able to exercise their full rights of citizenship, they need to develop abilities and competencies related to statistical literacy at compulsory school levels. These include being able to read, interpret and criticize media information and take conscious decisions in the face of these readings. In Brazil, in 1998, it was suggested that, in the middle school, the st...

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. By H. T. Hyman, M.D. Second edition. (Pp. xxix t 716. 55s.) London: Lippincott, 1953. THIS is an unusual book and of a type which will be strange to British readers. It starts with a section in which are listed 1,585 symptoms and signs. Reference to any one of these directs the reader to some one of the 232 divisions of differential diagnosis, alphabetically arranged. Th...