Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Ph.D. Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. email: kerach...

Milad Hooshyar Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. [email protected] Stephen C. Medeiros Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. Dingbao Wang Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. Scott C. Hagen Department o...

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida,...

Some industry and policy actors are concerned about public opposition to civil drones, in particular because of their association with military drones. However, very little is understood about public reactions to the technology. Strategies to 'manage public acceptance' have so far relied upon several untested assumptions. We conducted public engagement activities to explore citizens' visions of...

One of the most important variable to achieve a sustainable and desirable city is the increasing of general or public information of citizens about civil rights and city regulations or municipal laws. Thus, this paper evaluates general and public information about civil rights and municipal laws to increase the effectiveness of future actions. The recent survey was done among people aged 20 to...

Research findings: ‘Civil’ organisations vary in their ties to ‘non-civil’ organisations with fundamental consequences: organisations with ties to the principle actors of representative democracy are the most likely to participate in formal or quasi-formal processes of public policy. The findings suggest that the dominant perspective on civil society and participation in international developme...

nal intervention are most effective, remain open questions. Overall, these volumes are a valuable resource for all researchers interested in studying civil wars. REFERENCES Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 1998. “On Economic Causes of Civil War.” Oxford Economic Papers, 50(4): 563–73. Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 2004. “Greed and Grievance in Civil War.” Oxford Economic Papers, 56(4): 563–9...

j1 Francisco Calvo PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j2 Juan de Oña PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j3 Griselda López BEng Researcher, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, Universit...

ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...