Erratum for “Curbside Service Subways”

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Curbside recycling at the synapse

hen John Heuser finished medical school at the height of the Vietnam War he was immediately eligible for the draft. Luckily for him, and for cell biology, he fulfilled his military service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Public Health Service. It was there that he brought the concept of " membrane recycling " to light. He brought to Thomas Reese's lab at the NIH ...

Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth∗

We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city’s subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. To accomplish this investigation, for a sample of the 632 largest cities in the world, we construct panel data describing the extent of each of the 138 subway systems in these cities, their population, and measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data. T...

Prospective comparison of curbside versus formal consultations.

BACKGROUND Curbside consultations are commonly requested during the care of hospitalized patients, but physicians perceive that the recommendations provided may be based on inaccurate or incomplete information. OBJECTIVE To compare the accuracy and completeness of the information received from providers requesting a curbside consultation of hospitalists with that obtained in a formal consulta...

On-The-Fly Curbside Parking Assignment

This paper presents Free Parking System (FPS), a system for assigning free curbside parking spaces to drivers in the cities. FPS has two components: a mobile app running on the drivers’ smart phones that submits parking requests and guides drivers to their parking spaces, and a server that manages the parking assignment process. Unlike existing parking systems, FPS is cost-effective as it does ...