Some Issues in Transportation Policy: Problems in Preference Articulation

Some Issues in Energy Policy and Planning

In addition to its conventional meaning of “preparing for future situations”, energy planning addresses policy making, in particular in situations where self-regulating markets are perceived as inadequate for reaching given policy goals. A general example for such a situation is given by the presence of non-monetary externalities, that is, costs or benefits that are not included in market inter...

Issues with Language Policy and Planning in Iranian Higher Education

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Issues in sustainable transportation

There is growing interest in sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable transportation. This paper identifies issues related to the definition, evaluation and implementation of sustainable transportation. Significant issues include the range of definitions of sustainability, the range of issues considered under sustainability, the range of perspectives, criticism of sustainability...

On "Quality" in Translation Studies: issues and Problems

Complexity issues in some clustering problems in combinatorial circuits

The modern integrated circuit is one of the most complex products that has been engineered to-date. It continues to grow in complexity as the years progress. As a result, very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design now involves massive design teams employing state-of-the art computer-aided design (CAD) tools. One of the oldest, yet most important CAD problems for VLSI circuits is physical...