bruce catton grant and lee a study in contrasts thesis

Tài liệu Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business: A Study of Bloor Street in Toronto’s Annex Neighbourhood docx

... Proposalstoinstallbikelanesonmajorstreetsareoftenmetwithoppositionfrommerchantswhofearthatthereallocationofroadspacefromonstreetparkingtoonstreetbikelaneswouldhurtbusiness.ThepurposeofthisstudyistounderstandandestimatetheimportanceofonstreetparkingtobusinessonBloorStreetintheAnnexneighbourhoodofToronto.ToencouragemoreCanadianstousebicyclesforutilitariantripsmoreoften,itisessentialthattheimplementationofbikelanesonmajorstreetsbeaccelerated.TheBloorDanforthcorridorisaparticularlyattractiveoptionforacitywideeastwestbikelaneinTorontobecauseitisoneoftheonlylong,straight,relativelyflatroutesthatconnectsthecityfromendtoend;therearenostreetcartracks;andithasoneofthehighestincidencesofbicyclecollisionsinthecity.Thisreportisaboutthedevelopmentandtestingofnewanalytictoolstodeterminethepublicacceptabilityandeconomicimpactofreallocatingroadspace.ThestudyconductedinJulyof2008surveyedtheopinionsandpreferencesof61merchantsand538patronsonBloorStreetandanalyzedparkingusagedatainthearea.Amongthestudysfindings:ã ... P’lots,alsowithin a twoorthreeminutewalkofthe study area:at577Palmerston,365Lippincott and 19Spadina.ThedatatrackspaymentsmadeusingTPA’spay and displaymachinesforbothon‐streetparking and off‐streetTPAlots.Foron‐streetparking,dataisreportedasthenumberofvalidticketsduring15‐minuteintervalsthroughoutthedaysthatcorrespondwiththepedestriansurveydays(July8,9,10,15,16,17 and 19).However,dataforSaturday,July19thwasnotavailable,soSaturday,July12thwassubstitutedinstead.Theresearcherstookhourlysnapshotsbetween10:00 a. m. and 9:00p.m.–thehourswhenthemachinesaregenerally in use– and determinedtheaveragenumberofvalidticketsthroughouttheday,aswellasmorning‐midday,afternoon, and eveningaverages.Fortheoff‐streetlots,parkingdataisreportedasdaily and eveningpeaks–thehighestrecordednumberofvalidticketsatanygiventime in thedayoreveningperiod.Again,theTPAsupplieddataforthesamedaysastheon‐streetparkingdata,whichcorrespondtothepedestriansurveydays.Theaveragevalidticketcountswerecomparedtotheoverallcapacity–eitheron‐streetor in lots–todeterminetheaverageusageofon‐street and off‐streetpaidparking.3.4 ... Thereductioninonstreetparkingsupplyfromabikelaneorwidenedsidewalkcouldbeaccommodatedintheareasoffstreetmunicipalparkinglots.Thespendinghabitsofcyclistsandpedestrians,theirrelativelyhightravelmodeshare,andtheminimalimpactonparkingalldemonstratethatmerchantsinthisareaareunlikely tobenegativelyaffectedbyreallocatingonstreetparkingspacetoabikelane.Onthecontrary,thischangewilllikelyincreasecommercialactivity.Itisrecommendedthatthistypeofstudybereplicatedonothercommercialstreetswherethereisconcernaboutreducingparkingtoaccommodatewidersidewalksorbicyclelanes.Specifically,theresearchersalsorecommendthattheCityofTorontousethisstudytolookmorecloselyatthefutureofBloorStreetasacandidateforacrosstownbikeway....

Tài liệu THE VICTORIAN TAXPAYER AND THE LAW A Study in Constitutional Confl ict doc

Danh mục: Cao đẳng - Đại học

... national emergency, generally war.  e principal direct tax was the land tax, ori-ginally a tax on real and personal property and incomes 20 but it became a tax purely on land in the nature ...  inadequate, a law of commercial association rudimentary and a property law inhibiting the full exploitation of land and minerals. Finally the legal process was one of in nite slowness, ... that everyone was paying their due taxes and promoted public co-operation. To use a traditional means of tax administration which was famil-iar and understood by all taxpayers and sympathetic...

Tài liệu The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore doc

Danh mục: Khoa học xã hội

... bear some of the archaic markings common on the rock faces both in Scotland and in Central Australia: on large rocks they are painted, in Australia, in Scotland they are incised.I maintain that ... (dismissing the Kintyre and Tappock stones,) the "manufacturers" did know, apparently, that perforated and inscribed, or uninscribed tablets and plaques of shale and schist and slate and gas ... pattern. In Australia, in Portugal, in Russia, in France, in NorthAmerica, in Scotland, as we shall see, such stones may be unmarked, may bear no inscription or pattern. {81}These are plain magic...

Philosophy in a New Key A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art

Danh mục: Tâm lý - Nghệ thuật sống

... fornearly a thousand years of philosophical growth, beginningwith the early Church Fathers and culminating in the greatScholastics. But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation,nature and ... says, "certainly havequite elaborate 'ape-ways' into which a newcomer is graduallyacculturated, including among other patterns ways of usingavailable instruments for reaching ... Physicists may think of certain facts in place ofconstants and variables, but the same constants and variableswill serve somewhere else to calculate other facts, and themathematicians themselves...

modelling interest-free economy a study in macroeconomics and development

Danh mục: Đại cương

... h1" alt=""

Báo cáo sinh học: "Time-course of sFlt-1 and VEGF-A release in neutropenic patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study" pptx

Danh mục: Hóa học - Dầu khí

... contrast, in an animal model ofsepsis VEGF -A levels increased in liver, kidney and heart, and no difference could be detected betweenVEGF -A levels in serum and plasma, arguing against a majorroleofplateletsasasourceofVEGF -A[ 8] .In our ... considered a medical emergency, and a standar-dized management approach including wide-spectrumantibiotics and admission is usually implemented for allpatients. So far, there are no reliable laboratory ... Campinas, Campinas,SP, BrazilFull list of author information is available at the end of the articleAlves et al. Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:23http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/23â...

báo cáo hóa học: " Lipopolysaccharide modulates astrocytic S100B secretion: a study in cerebrospinal fluid and astrocyte cultures from rats" pdf

Danh mục: Toán học

... ventricular access, the ani-mals were anesthetized with ketamine/xylazine (75 and 10mg/Kg, respectively, i.p.) and placed in a stereotaxic appa-ratus. A midline saggital incision was made in the ... S100Bsecretion: a study in cerebrospinal fluid and astrocyte cultures from ratsMaria Cristina Guerra†, Lucas S Tortorelli†, Fabiana Galland, Carollina Da Ré, Elisa Negri, Douglas S Engelke,Letícia Rodrigues, ... factor a (TNFa) measurementThis assay was carried out in 100 μLofCSF,serumorextracellular medium, using a rat TNFa ELISA fromeBioscience (San Diego, USA).Statistical analysisParametric data are...

báo cáo hóa học: " Genotoxic effects in occupational exposure to formaldehyde: A study in anatomy and pathology laboratories and formaldehyde-resins production" ppt

Danh mục: Hóa học - Dầu khí

... anatomy laboratories Macroscopic examination 5.02 PathologistPathology and anatomy laboratories Disposal of specimen and used solutions 0.95 Technicians and AssistantsPathology and anatomy laboratories ... RESEARC H Open AccessGenotoxic effects in occupational exposure toformaldehyde: A study in anatomy and pathologylaboratories and formaldehyde-resins productionSusana Viegas1,3*, Carina Ladeira2,3, ... Portugal and REQUIMTE/CQFB, Faculty of Sciences and Technology,Universidade Nova de Lisboa and SINTOR-UNINOVA, Monte de Caparica,Portugal.6Environmental and Occupational Health Department and...

báo cáo hóa học:" Time-course of sFlt-1 and VEGF-A release in neutropenic patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study" pdf

Danh mục: Hóa học - Dầu khí

... contrast, in an animal model ofsepsis VEGF -A levels increased in liver, kidney and heart, and no difference could be detected betweenVEGF -A levels in serum and plasma, arguing against a majorroleofplateletsasasourceofVEGF -A[ 8] .In our ... neutropenia and before 3 0 days. Differences in continuous and categori-cal variables were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney orFisher’s exact test respectively. Data are expressed asmedian and range ... E, Kawaguchi T,Ariyoshi M, Saiki T, Sakamoto M, Nagata K, et al: Vascular endothelialgrowth factor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Scand J Rheumatol1998, 27:377-380.20. Taha Y, Raab...

Three Dimensional Integration and Modeling A Revolution in RF and Wireless Packaging by Jong Hoon Lee Emmanuil Manos M Tentzeris and Constantine A Balanis_3 ppt

Danh mục: Điện - Điện tử

... The packaging layer is broughtdown and taped into hard contact and measured. (Case 3) A top metal press plate and a 15 lbwt are puton top of the packaging layer (15 psi) to simulate bonding pressure. ... resistance and reactance of the inkjet-printed RFID tag. THREE-DIMENSIONAL PACKAGING IN MULTILAYER ORGANIC SUBSTRATES 23As a benchmark of this approach, an inductively coupled feeding RFID tag ... MMIC and parallelplate capacitor were mounted with an inorganic silver paste and wire bonded to the feed lines.The superstrate packaging layers were machined with a CO2laser to form square...