54 to the infrastructure itself. However, many studies on HSR have highlighted the importance of the provision of services (timetables, frequencies, fares, etc). A high performance infrastructure such as HST may not be so useful in terms of accessibility and reducing travel times unless adequate services are provided. Considering this service approach, the paper develops a utility indicator for...

Of course, we couldn’t understand why we got caned for very little, why we had to wear our school cap at all times. Why our hair could never touch our collar. Why our trousers had to be more that 14 inches at the hem. Why our team couldn’t play sport on a Sunday. Why our parents could not have a glass of wine with the neighbours. Why we would go to hell for ....well whatever sin was defined as ...

the mādayān ī hazār dādestān «the book of thousand judgements» only an incomplete manuscript of several legal collections of sasanian era is at hand. noinformation about the life of farroxmard vahrāmān (f son v) collector is available. in principle, it is possible that the book be written under the reign of khosrow parviz, the last king listed in the book. .this article will examine the legal t...

Face book is virtual and cybernetic network which causes an effective force and among the youth. It shows that if the usage of the face book network increases at home the rate of the interaction and the bounding social capital decreases as well. It also indicates that the effect of face book usage among the young people has increased already. Through a questionnaire by a survey method, more tha...

book Organizers: Jocelyne Demengeot Ivo Marguti Carlos E. Tadokoro Jorge Carneiro Thiago Carvalho Welcome to the XXXVII SPI Annual Meeting! This year's Reunion of the Portuguese immunological community will start with an exceptional session shared with the symposium “Jerne100: a century of Niels K Jerne”, a gathering of the colleagues, associates, and friends of one of the most remarkable and i...

In his Elements of Logic (1836), Richard Whately conjures up an illogical antagonist with whom to contest his points, particularly on the efficacy of the fallacies. This device constitutes a kind of running dialogue between himself as the epitome of reason and a champion of unreason. The antagonist is simply called “the Sophist.” He acts deliberately to obscure and disguise expressions, while h...

Book Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel Nashville, Tennessee November 15–18, 2000 2 2000 Annual Meeting Abstracts WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:00–8:30

25 methodologies that are rarely repeated if undertaken at all. This paper will build on work undertaken for UN-HABITAT on developing an Urban Poor Accessibility Assessment Tool to map out directions for work to capture the specific accessibility needs of the urban poor that would improve equity of planning outcomes and enhance the ability the urban transport sector to contribute to poverty red...

Jeff rey Green’s The Eyes of the People (EOP) poses the question of what popular empowerment might mean in twenty-fi rst-century liberal democracies. It diagnoses and takes critical aim at the widespread assumption that popular power must relate to the legislative capacity to determine the laws and norms shaping political life. Whereas leading paradigms of democracy—deliberative, aggregationist...