Under the premise that land administration is one of the necessary components of sustainable development and better land management, this article reviews how progressive titling could foster new land administration procedures and associated information systems. This review is based on the objectives of progressive titling as they are developed or currently implemented in various regions in the ...

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In the context of real estate, land is defined as a property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment that does not occur naturally. Depending on the title, land ownership may also give the holder the rights to all natural resources on the land. These may include water, plants, human and animal life, fossils, soil, minerals, electromagnetic features, geographical location, and geoph...

The purpose of this note is to specify a uniform terminology for the design and implementation of concepts for C++, based on influential literature on generic programming with concepts. The terminology results from an ongoing work in specifying an infrastructure for implementing C++ concepts, called ConceptClang. We solicit feedback and hope that the terminology will facilitate conversations ab...

The paper investigates the ability to learn from an aircraft accident as the opportunities for learning diminish with the decline in the accident rate. A safety compromising case is studied as the processes of aircraft accident intervention and recovery can degrade the ability of an aircraft accident investigation process to enhance aviation safety by revealing accident causation. In the case s...

Understanding land-expropriated farmers’ welfare change and the determinants of their willingness to change is very important for sustainable urbanization and social stability in developing countries. However, this issue has been seldom explored in previous studies, especially in China. This paper aims to enrich this field by conducting an empirical study using a household survey in 2014 in Nan...

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The present paper sets forth blood lactic acid values obtained from four groups of subjects at high altitude: members of our party in Chile, residents of ‘Quilcha, Chile (altitude 5.34 km.), members of our party at Leadville, and residents at Leadville. The Chilean party was divided into two groups. The first group, consisting of six men, was engaged for approximately six weeks setting up a mob...

I am a psychologist and not a theologian, so I do not know what the word "soul" means. What matters to me is a creature's capacity to feel, to suffer and to be conscious; its sentiency, not its soul, is the bedrock of my concern. Let us proclaim this creed of sentientism: that anything, human or nonhuman, terrestrial or extraterrestrial, natural or man-made, that can suffer should be included w...