We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district, there is underprovision of public goods in both the city and the village. When districts unite, under...

We describe OpenMaTrEx, a free/open-source examplebased machine translation (EBMT) system based on the marker hypothesis, comprising a marker-driven chunker, a collection of chunk aligners, and two engines: one based on a simple proof-of-concept monotone EBMT recombinator and a Moses-based statistical decoder. OpenMaTrEx is a free/open-source release of the basic components of MaTrEx, the Dubli...

Over the period 1990-2010, the increase in life expectancy for males in New York City was 6.0 years greater than for males in the United States. The female relative gain was 3.9 years. Male relative gains were larger because of extremely rapid reductions in mortality from HIV/AIDS and homicide, declines that reflect effective municipal policies and programs. Declines in drug- and alcohol-relate...

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has become a serious environmental problem in major cities all over world. The problem of solid waste is also influencing the urban environment of Solapur city. Therefore, the present study was under taken to enlist the causes of solid waste generation and possibilities of associated problems. The study was mainly concentrated to investigate the present status of Mun...

in this experiment, the chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from ferula assa-foetida oleo-gum resin collected from two different sites of yazd province (tabas and yazd) in the center of iran, were identified. the gas chromatography mass-spectroscopy (gc/ms) data showed that the qualitative composition of the components appeared to be constant in two different regions. moreover, ...

Laboratory for Advanced Rehabilitation Research in Simulation, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, School of Health Professions, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Office of the Dean, School of Health Professions, University o...

Traffic has a profound effect on how humans perceive their own happiness. What remains to be seen, however, is whether the short term happiness losses associated with traffic lead to lower overall happiness for people living in areas with consistently high traffic. This paper looks at average traffic delays in major metropolitan cities in the United States and compares these delays to average h...

A 1997 Commonwealth Secretariat report on small states commented that “for small states, particularly those that are remote from the major markets and commercial and financial centers, the communications revolution has created the possibility of reducing traditional barriers and opened up new opportunities.” Drawing upon existing research by Nye, Melissen, Chong and others, soft power can be ar...

G. Adluru, E. V. DiBella Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, UCAIR, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Introduction: Dynamic cardiac perfusion images often suffer from motion artifacts due to respiration. R...