There are two fundamenta l issues that must be considered when purchas ing any standalone EPLI product. Preferably, these issues will be evaluated before the insurance broker goes to market and begins negotiating more specif ic cove rage terms. First, the policyholder should decide whether it wants a "working layer" program (i.e., a policy wi th re la t ive ly low l i m i t s c o m b i n e d w ...

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INTRODUCTION To address the paucity of research around smokefree streets, we: (i) refined existing data collection methods; (ii) expanded on the meagre previous research in this area; and (iii) compared results by differing size of urban centre. METHODS We refined established methods; a solo observer simultaneously observed smoking and measured fine particulate levels (PM(2.5)) on a route of ...

This paper presents an explicit formula for propagation path loss prediction of microcellular communication in an urban street scene. The formula is derived based on geometrical optics and diffraction theory and it takes into account multiple reflections along main streets, side streets and diffractions around corners. Comparisons between our theoretical results with measurements and ray tracin...

T hroughout the United States, citizens are asking their city traffic engineers to reduce “excessive” cut-through traffic and speeding cars on their local streets. A recent ZTE Journal article noted an “epidemic” of street closure requests,’ and many recent ITE articles have dealt with aspects of neighborhood traffic control. More and more, city and county traffic engineers must shift their att...

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological processes. In this study, we evaluated the influences of urban vegetation-represented by characteristics of street trees (canopy size, proportion of native...

The decline of shopping streets and the rise of shopping malls have been major trends in European retailing for decades. So far, research has failed to investigate this shift of agglomeration format (AF) patronage from a marketing perspective, including the consumers’ point of view. This paper presents a theoretical comparison of generic similarities and conceptual differences between shopping ...