The modal split model is one of the steps of the classical four-step travel demand planning. Predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive modal split models are essential to make a balance between travel demand and supply. To calibrate these models, it is necessary to detect and employ influential independent variables that are related to characteristics of travel modes, individual and family attr...

The study of politics and the life cycle began with a rather single-minded focus on childhood and the family-on the idea, as Tocqueville famously put it, that the entire person could be "seen in the cradle of the child." Politics does begin in childhood, and parents do influence their offspring, but change takes place over the entire span of life. I take up the early emergence of partisanship a...

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS play an increasingly important role in design and development efforts of many industries. "Cradle to grave" assessments are being used not only by product designers and manufacturers, but also by product users (and environmentalists) to consider the relative merits of various available products and to improve the environmental acceptability of products. Life-cycle e...

The work presents the results of some case studies oriented toward the investigation of the potential of Life Cycle Assessment evaluations in the area of environmental impacts related to the life cycle of buildings. In particular, the aspects connected with the performance behavior of building components (and of the entire building organisms) are dealt, in relation to users’ needs which are cha...

I compare two different ways of integrating mortality into life-cycle models: the standard additive model with time preferences, on the one hand, and a formulation that rules out the existence of time preference, but allows for risk aversion with respect to the length of life, on the other hand. These models are of similar complexity, but rather different in their fundamental assumptions. I sho...

Ambient Intelligence imposes many challenges in protecting people’s privacy. Storing privacy-sensitive data during for permanently will inevitably result in privacy violations. Limited retention techniques might prove useful in order to limit the risks of unwanted and irreversible disclosure of privacy-sensitive data. To overcome the rigidness of simple limited retention policies, Life-Cycle po...

* Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] Financial support: none. This paper was developed for the written test of the competition examination for the position of locum tenens Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine of Universidade Federal do Rio Gran...

Nowadays, botnets are considered as essential tools for planning serious cyberattacks. Botnets are used to perform various malicious activities such as DDoSattacks and sending spam emails. Different approaches are presented to detectbotnets; however most of them may be ineffective when there are only a fewinfected hosts in monitored network, as they rely on similarity in...

The 90’s witnessed an impressive growth of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the market of corporate IT solutions. For instance, O ́Leary (2000) reports that a single ERP system (SAP ́s R/3) is used by more than 60% of the multinational firms. Among the explanations for this phenomenon are the competitive pressures suffered by the companies that have forced them to seek alternatives f...