But of late I have been increasingly able to catch, if I listen attentively, the sound of the sobs which I had the strength to control in my father's presence, and which broke out only when I found myself alone with Mamma. Actually, their echo has never ceased: it is only because life is now growing more and more quiet round about me that I hear them afresh, like those convent bells which are s...

An Unattainable Salvation Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York It was 1832, and in the Five Points area of New York, a great street excavation was under way. What would cause such a flurry over the cobbles? Here, shovels plied the earth decades before the subway tunneled beneath the crowded streets. Electrical poles and telegraph lines had yet to become a nuisance worthy of inhumation. No...

Information about a location can be imprecise and contextdependent. This is especially true for road networks, where some streets are long or two-way, and just the name of a street may represent low-value information for certain applications. To improve precision, geocoding commonly includes the number of a building on a street, the highway location, often indicated in kilometers, or the postal...

Last 5 lines of Paragraph 1. " Distributions of following time gaps were acquired from a recent ... rural two-lane highway " change to " Distributions of following time gaps were acquired from a recent on-road field study conducted by the University of Iowa, in conjunction with Frontier Engineering, Inc., which collected data on driver following behavior with and without a rear-end crash warnin...

Approximately 9,000 homes in Kenosha have a lead water service line that delivers fresh municipal water from the Kenosha Water Utility’s cast iron or plastic water mains located in public streets and rights of way, into individual homes that is used for drinking, bathing and cleaning. Th ese lead services lines that connect the fresh water mains to more than 9,000 families were installed prior ...

Providing comprehensive accessibility is the major challenge for tourism service providers to address people with disabilities (and older people) as growing consumer groups. Information about accessibility of tourism objects (accommodation, sights, streets, parks, etc.) is equally important as barrier-free tourism information systems to support the booking and decision making process. Consequen...

1486 investment, workfare, and “prisonfare” that have spawned the mounting social refuse strewn on the streets of the U.S. metropolis. Indeed, Duneier endorses the institutionalization of economic dispossession and social marginality as queer antipoverty policy when he proposes that “we will improve our well-being by making provisions for more persons, not fewer, to engage in informal entrepren...

Problem, research strategy, and findings The width of street rights-of-way is normally determined by traffic engineering urban design conventions, without considering the immense value underlying land. In this article, I develop an economic framework that can inform decisions on width, use tax parcel data to quantify widths, land areas, streets in 20 largest counties United States. Residential ...

conclusions in comparison with road traffic accidents on city streets, trauma patients in rtas on roads out of the city have longer pre-hospital time intervals and more severe injuries; therefore this group needs more pre-hospital resuscitation interventions. results findings of this study showed that, 75% of rtas occurred on city streets (n = 1 251). motor-car accidents were the most frequent ...