conclusions the current study showed significant association between the rosenberg self-esteem test results and smoking, and illegal drug abuse like heroin, pills, alcohol, nas, and other substances. therefore, increasing self-esteem is essential for preventing the adolescents’ emotional and behavioral disorders. this fact could guide us to the new approaches for smoking and drug-abuse preventi...

Street gangs pose serious threats to their members, to their victims, and to communities at large. The behavior problems associated with gangs are many and varied. Suggested causes for the emergence of gangs are complicated, and many of them are interdependent. Interventions planned to rehabilitate individuals and to weaken the power of the gang are numerous. Research shows that few of these in...

Drivers in urban neighborhoods who patrol streets, seeking inexpensive on-street parking create a significant fraction of measured traffic congestion. The pool of drivers patrolling at any time can be modeled as a queue, where ‘queue service’ is the act of parking in a recently vacated parking space and queue discipline is SIRO – Service In Random Order. We develop a queueing model of such driv...

We wrote a computer program which gives driving directions in northern New Jersey. Its data base combines a street map and a telephone book, so requests like “give directions from the Lackawanna Diner to the nearest dry cleaner’* (properly specified) can be answered. This problem involves both human factors and algorithmic problems. From the human factors standpoint, what kind of route is best:...

This paper studies the problem of transcribing foreign names. The transcriptions of first names in five languages have been studied to show examples of how this problem has been dealt with in the Onomastica Multi-Lingual Pronunciation Dictionary of European names. The paper describes this dictionary and the methods used to do the automatic transcriptions for the Swedish part. INTRODUCTION Names...

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This research explores the correlation between ‘walkability’ and the ‘sense of place’ in Tehran’s streets, particularly streets leading to the Imam Khomeini square (Maidan-e Tup-khana) at the heart of historic downtown. The goal is to evaluate the walkability through a measurable method in order to prioritize strategies to enhance various aspects of the historic districts. After reviewing the e...

Abstract This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city eastern Germany, over past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on ways which semantic choices streetscape are recruited to canonize traces national “supportive hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate from variationist sociolinguistics,...