The newly found interest of private developers and communities to bring back the urban Main Street has brought with it questions about what the Main Street should be. Private developers see the inner city as the next frontier for retail development. Communities are attempting to redevelop their districts both with and without private involvement. The goals of each approach are significantly dif...

* Consider the choices available to a shopper driving to a city and trying to park downtown. One option, typical to many cities, is to follow the signposts to an off-street parking facility, which is often privately operated. Another option is to search for an on-street spot. If this proves unsuccessful, it is always possible to return to the off-street facility. We formalise such a setting and...

Street dust is a hazard for workers in traditional markets. Exposure time is longer than for other people, making them vulnerable to heavy metals in street dust. This study investigated heavy metal concentrations in street dust samples collected from different types of markets. It compared the results with heavy metal concentrations in heavy traffic and rural areas. Street dust was significantl...

The main objective of this research is to understand the meaning of the practices concerning food hygiene in a street market in Salvador, the capital of Bahia State in Brazil. The ethnographic study presents two main categories for symbolic production related to hygiene practices: cleanliness as order and dirtiness as disorder. These cultural codes make correspondence with the studies of Mary D...

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1Senior Advisor for Reproductive Health Technology Introduction at Ipas, 300 Market Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 USA. Tel: 919.967.7052; E-mail: [email protected] 2Coordinator for the Ipas Africa Alliance for Women's Reproductive Health and Rights, Nairobi, Kenya. Correspondence: Ms. Nina Frankel, Senior Advisor for Reproductive Health Technology Introduction at Ipas, 300 Market Stre...

Traditional markets are places where sellers and buyers make transactions directly. Parking is one of the facilities that cannot be separated from traditional markets. In market Petisah Medan, parking problems occur due to weak management. The purpose this paper analyze management policy good in Market area order create an orderly area. research method writing a qualitative method. carried out ...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) started making the headlines in the midst of the global financial crisis. They were welcomed neither by academics nor by politicians of Western countries. In a flurry of 2008 papers SWF were peremptorily told what they should and shouldn’t do. The reasoning underlying the prescriptive norms was flawed in two respects. First it simply equated SWFs to other instituti...

Market entry decisions are some of a firm’s most important strategic choices. Although some recent studies have begun to consider the impact of learning and experience on foreign market entry, no study has examined the impact of a firm’s own operations in similar markets on subsequent entry decisions. In this study, we introduce the concept of near-market knowledge to reflect the knowledge firm...

A variety of alternative definitions and sources of actual earnings realizations are available to investors. In addition to “traditional” earnings numbers produced in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), these alternative measures include the so-called Street earnings numbers that are based on proprietary de...