This paper quantifies the shift in the household-level demand for postal delivery services over time and determines the extent to which it can be attributed to the appearance of alternative modes of communication versus the concomitant rise in the relative price of postal delivery services. The two major results to emerge from this analysis are: (1) postal price increases of the magnitude recen...

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Based on D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak’s shorter prose (essays, stories), the author distinguishes various types of narrative, i.e. first and third person narration a personal type narration. In several stories essay type, special markers presence narrator stand out expressed in characteristic motifs admiration, interest, curiosity. The proves that during period so-called “second debut” (1881–1882), Mam...

Taking into consideration the steady shift towards information digitisation, an increasing number of approaches are targeting the unification of the user’s digital “Personal Information Sphere”to increase user awareness, provide singlepoint management, and enable context-driven recommendation. The Personal Information Sphere refers to both conventional information such as semi/structured inform...

Personal exposures to 15 volatile organic compounds (VOC) and 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) of 100 adult nonsmokers living in three UK areas, namely London, West Midlands, and rural South Wales, were measured using an actively pumped sampler carried around by the volunteers for 5/1 (VOC/PAH) consecutive 24-h periods, following their normal lifestyle. Results from personal exposure m...

This paper describes a micro-grid system and its monitoring system. This micro-grid system consists of generation systems, consumer electrical equipments, auxiliary equipments and the monitoring system. All the equipments have 485 communication interfaces. In order to monitor and manage this micro-grid system, we built a monitoring system, which contains modular instrument system and industrial...

In this report, we examine what information retrieval techniques can help identify documents that contain answers to different types of question. In particular, we exploit different external resource according to the type of question. In particular, Wikipedia will be exploited for identifying personal names and their translation, as well as biography-related keywords. Google search engine is us...

1. Strengths: The paper presents a succinct and interesting comparative study of one type of Internet service that is becoming increasingly popular—personal storage. The topic is timely, given that personal cloud systems are widely used on the Internet. The active measurement approach reveals various important design choices of these systems such as the location of data centers, chunking, bundl...