scholarly journals Protocolling the TINATEL-System: A contribution for long term evaluation of an AAC-system for speech impaired persons to access the public telephone network

1994 ◽  
pp. 437-446
Author(s):  
Paul Panek
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
System A ◽  
Term Evaluation ◽  
Public Telephone

scholarly journals Barcelona food retailing and public markets, 1876–1936

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
NADIA FAVA ◽  
MANEL GUÀRDIA ◽  
JOSÉ LUIS OYÓN
Keyword(s):  
Food Retailing ◽  
Public Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
System A ◽  
Urban Markets ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

ABSTRACTThis article is a contribution to comparative research between specific urban markets trajectories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and it aims to juxtapose southern European food market experiences, particularly the Barcelona case, with west European ones. Like other big cities in southern and central Europe, Barcelona consolidated a sturdy polycentric system of district markets between 1876 and 1936, just when such markets were beginning to decline in ‘first comers’ cities of Britain and France. In the inter-war period, the market halls of southern European cities played a prominent role in the everyday food trade and as functional and socializing centres in neighbourhoods. They were poles of dense residential and kinship relations for stall vendors, especially women vendors, and foci of a large part of the food retailing business in many neighbourhoods. Barcelona's particular historical circumstances made the public covered market system a fundamental element of neighbourhood commerce and a long-term urban asset.

Green Urban Public Bikes Rental System: A Case Study of Taipei YouBike

2013 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 968-975
Author(s):  
Hui Hua Yang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Clear Indication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
System A ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
Taipei City

Public bikes rental system is an innovative scheme of rental bicycles in urban areas and can be seen as part of the public transport system. This study investigates the users of Taipei YouBike rental system, analysis their intention and behaviors, pre-expectation and actual experience on satisfaction. The result indicates that the users were mostly from long term annual fee commuters. The result also reveals distinct discrepancies between pre-expectation and actual experience, especially in distributes of safety routes and environments and clear indication of signs on bike routes. The findings can be used for Taipei City to improve the urban bicycle program and make more effort to develop safety cycling infrastructures and amenities.

Free speech and the public telephone network

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Berman ◽  
Henry Geller ◽  
John Podesta ◽  
Bob Peck ◽  
Eli Noam
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Telephone Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Telephone

The public telephone network

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 538-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harmeet Sawhney
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Telephone

Monitoring and Controlling the Public Telephone Network

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
D M Leakey
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Telephone Network ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Optimum Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transmission Equipment ◽  
Management Function ◽  
Public Telephone

The telephone network is a complex system of switching and transmission equipment to enable any of tens and internationally hundreds of millions of telephones to be interconnected in virtually any combination. To ensure optimum performance various performance criteria have to be agreed and then monitored and controlled. This network management function has to be effective in the presence of rapid modernisation where new generations of equipment have to interwork with older generations in a manner not directly evident to the customer.

A pilot study of low-cost dynamic telepathology using the public telephone network

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Vazir ◽  
M. A. Loane ◽  
R. Wootton
Keyword(s):  
District Hospital ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pilot Trial ◽  
Telephone Network ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Telepathology System ◽  
Conventional Light Microscopy ◽  
Public Telephone

A pilot trial of a low-cost telepathology system was conducted. Avideo-codec operating to the CIF standard was used to transmit pictures over the public telephone network. Twenty-seven specimens from the routine pathology workload of a district hospital were examined. The average length of time spent examining each specimen was 14 min range 2-40 . The telepathology diagnoses were judged by conventional light microscopy of the specimens, performed by the same observer at a later date, and by a different observer. For the same observer, 23 diagnoses were correct 85 by telepathology, three were acceptable 11 and one was incorrect 4 . The results were slightly worse for a different observer: 21 diagnoses were correct 78 by telepathology, five diagnoses were acceptable 19 and one diagnosis was incorrect 4 . The technique was slower than conventional dynamic telepathology such as that based on communication by ISDN or leased circuits and picture quality was poor by comparison. However, these are not necessarily disadvantages in the context of the developing world, and since only a telephone connection is required, the technique could become an important method of improving the distribution of scarce resources, such as pathology expertise.

EIA AND LONG-TERM EVALUATION IN THE LICENSING PROCESS FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL IN SLOVENIA

1999 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 349-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRANKO KONTIC ◽  
BURTON C. KROSS ◽  
PETER STEGNAR
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Radioactive Waste Disposal ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Term Evaluation

The discussion is about the validity of long-term environmental impact assessment (EIA) and its role in the licensing process for radioactive waste disposal in Slovenia. Owing to uncertainties associated with long-term evaluations an alternative approach is suggested for site selection for the repository. The idea behind the new approach is to integrate environmental planning with the optimisation of land-use as a basis for identifying the best site for the repository. This approach is to complement or, eventually, substitute the existing strictly regulatory concept relying upon criteria compliance tied with the performance assessment of the disposal system. It is expected that the new approach will more effectively build confidence among professionals and the public toward siting of radioactive waste disposal. The new approach suggests not to use dose and risk as individual numerical indicators for deciding about acceptability of the proposed disposal system, since they may vary greatly given the large uncertainties connected to future societal characteristics and human exposures. Instead, a concept of reasonable assurance together with the evaluation of interests and potentials for future land-use in the particular environment is suggested.

scholarly journals Another Broken System: How the Adoption System in the United States Is Keeping Families Apart

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Yvonne Li
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transracial Adoptions ◽  
System A ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Adoption System

At its best, the adoption system brings families together and gives children a chance at a happy and healthy life; however, as it turns out, like many other systems in the United States, the adoption system is entrenched with systemic racism that may negatively impact a child’s life. In this paper, I examine the following questions: In what ways does the adoption process favor one race over the other? Who is imagined as the parent and the child in a transracial adoption? What has the public’s response been when the parent is a person of color? I first look at scholarship related to transracial adoptions and the arguments around whether transracial adoptions are beneficial for the children. I discuss some deeply rooted problems in transracial adoptions that may have a long term impact on a child’s life. I then outline my research methods, and finally, I discuss the results of my research. Ultimately, I argue that the adoption system, a system that is supposed to bring families together, is unintentionally keeping families apart with its regulations. In addition, I look into how some of the racist undertones in adoption policies have bled into what people imagine a family should look like.

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