Curbside parking regulation has been widely implemented in cities around the world and increasingly they are adopting market-oriented perspectives. However, policy-makers face a complex task when they seek to foster efficiency in this market due to its intrinsic distortions (most notably, cruising in search of a parking space and garage market power). Theoretical studies stress that the right p...

“occupy wall street” movement which has aimed the heart of the global financial capitalist system enjoys a special significance in the perspective of social-economic- political, human rights (work force), moral and cultural heritage of nations and can be considered as a symbol of work force economic jihad in national and global level in order to realize justice and socio-economic equality. but ...

This paper looks at the relationship between negative news and stock markets in times of global crisis, such as the 2008/2009 period. We analysed one year of front page banner headlines of three financial newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Il Sole24ore to examine the influence of bad news both on stock market volatility and dynamic correlation. Our results show that the p...

This paper looks at parking policy in dense urban districts (“downtown”), where spatial competition between parking garages is a key feature. The paper has four parts. The first looks at the “parking garage operator’s problem”. The second derives the equilibrium in the parking garage market when there is no on-street parking, compares the equilibrium to the social optimum, and examines parking ...

1. Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 2. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 3. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road MS 2-400, B...

Sesame Street was introduced in November 1969 as an educational, early childhood program with the explicit goal of preparing preschool age children for school entry. Early studies found sizable short-term effects on test scores that are comparable to the documented effects of other early childhood education programs. In this project, we provide additional evidence of the effects of children’s e...

African cities face immense challenges over the coming decades. As countries urbanize, African cities must maintain service provision for rapidly increasing populations, yet with limited resources. In particular, urban food systems must be able to cope with regional food shortages and catalyze (or at least enable) the distribution of food from diverse sources in order to ensure that the cost of...

Several countries are pursuing the regulation of commercial sex work in order to decrease the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and reduce the probability of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic. In poor countries in particular, the commercial sex market is characterized by two sectors, brothel and street, where the latter is marked by riskier behavior (e.g., lower rates of condom use...

Case Report: Bilateral Communication between Superficial and Deep Group of Forearm Flexors Arun Chaudhury, Anita Yadav, A. Shariff Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi 110029, India. 1, Present address: Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia PA 19104 USA. Total Numbers of figures and Tables: 1 Abbreviated Title: Connection of...