Whether city governments should intervene and provide public funds for building Municipal Wireless Networks (MWN) is a controversial and important issue. Some people support the government’s intervention because MWN services seem to fit in the “public goods” category and result in “positive externality” (Cornes and Sandler, 1986). However, others are suspicious of the efficacy of the government...

Article history: Received 9 November 2012 Received in revised form 27 June 2013 Accepted 28 August 2013 Available online 27 November 2013 This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipalWiFi network and large interactive displays. We analyze the adoption of these technologies in public urban places with a conceptua...

A study was conducted to identify pertaining to the care of HIV infected patients among nurses in the County of West Pomerania. Most of the respondents (43.2%) were working in municipal hospitals, 38.7% in hospitals located in the country and 18% in academic hospitals. The responding nurses ranged in age from 20 to 58 (median 38 years). Median of work experience was 16 (1-28) years. The respond...

Vaasa, located on the Gulf of Bothnia, is representative of medium-sized cities on the coast of the Baltic Sea. This article discusses Vaasa's impact on the surrounding sea area and the city's reactions to the pollution of the sea. The history of wastewater treatment in Vaasa strongly suggests that first-generation environmental problems, e.g. the pollution problems caused by municipal wastewat...

The seeming dichotomy between the protection of biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) represents an outstanding field of research that requires a structured and detailed analysis. The paper analyzes and discusses the role of ESs within spatial planning and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) procedures through the content analysis methodology and a logical framework (LF) ...

In this paper we study the regional pattern of municipal business property tax rates in the province of British Columbia. Reduced form tax setting equations produce some evidence that municipal governments respond to tax changes in neighboring jurisdictions. However, a joint investigation of the determinants of tax base and municipal taxation decisions reveals that it is difficult to interpret ...

Municipal infrastructure is a fundamental facility for the normal operation and development of an urban city and is of significance for the stable progress of sustainable urbanization around the world, especially in developing countries. Based on the municipal infrastructure data of the prefecture-level cities in China, municipal infrastructure development is assessed comprehensively using a FA...

The title furan-ocoumarin, C14H12O4 [systematic name: 9-hy-droxy-2-(prop-1-en-2-yl)-2,3-di-hydro-7H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one], crystallizes with two independent mol-ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit. The two mol-ecules differ essentially in the orientation of the propenyl group with respect to the mean plane of the furan-ocoumarin moiety; the O-C(H)-C=C torsion angle is 122.2 (7)° in mol-...

This article takes an interdisciplinary qualitative approach to the problem of traffic accidents in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The authors begin by analyzing the "municipalization" (i.e., decentralization to the municipal level) of transport and traffic management in Campinas based on social representations by members of the local government's technical staff. Data demonstrate a significant d...