The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities (United Nations, 2008) resulting in an urban densification requiring people to live in closer proximity and share urban infrastructure such as streets, public transport, and parks within cities. However, “physical closeness does not mean social closeness” (Wellman, 2001, p. 234). Whereas it is a common practice to greet and chat with pe...

It is a pleasure to be able to address this year’s Retail Financial Services Forum. As you know, this is the sixth year that the Forum has been held and I think it is fair to say that the current environment is more challenging than at any time over that six-year period. The global fi nancial system is having to deal simultaneously with a very large repricing of risk, an unwinding of the levera...

This paper presents the Unified Collaborative Innovation Framework (UCIF) developed in the European Integrated Project Laboranova (Collaboration Environment for Strategic Innovation). The Framework aims at the support of the early stage innovation process by means of collaborative working environments. As implied by its name, UCIF is a framework, which by definition is a conceptual construct ac...

the sources of groundwater pollution such as, industrial effluents, sewage and extensive farming have lead to agrochemical pollution. mathematical modeling helps to analyze the existing situation, allows forecasting, and to evaluate the effects of changes in the surrounding water quality. the present research has been focused mainly towards understanding the various processes affecting the tran...

engineering and related sciences are among the most important compartments of the knowledge, which has been developed during centuries in order to provide a better life for human being. unfortunately, during the expansion of this knowledge, the aim has been sometimes neglected. in fact, human being has been destroying and depleting the natural resources, which is related on them for his life. t...

conclusions in general, time indices including length of patient stay in the ed and space capacity, emphasizing the need to address these shortcomings. materials and methods this analytical cross-sectional study was conducted via the faculty members of the ed and residents of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences in tehran, iran. data were collected using a predefined questionnaire. de...

all living organisms are exposed to ionizing radiation comprising cosmic rays coming from outer space, terrestrial nuclides occurring in the earth’s crust, building materials, air, water and foods and in the human body itself. the exposures are constant and uniform for all individuals everywhere including the dose from ingestion of 40k in food. cosmic rays are, more intense at higher altitudes,...