Environmental hazards caused by living conditions and human behaviour in residential areas are types of manmade hazards which have rarely been studied and documented in literature. Available studies that had considered theconventional residential environment had proved that residents’ perception were influenced by human and environmental factors. With focus on educational institutions, this pap...

A family with 20,000 dollars in annual earnings can obviously afford far more in Buffalo than in Boston, but economists have still hardly agreed on how to adjust local poverty measurements for local prices of living. A simple procedure might be to just use local price of living indices, but there are at least two reasons why such an adjustment could be highly problematic. First, these price adj...

By Larry Libby and Elena G. Irwin Introduction Farmland value reflects the economic returns from the various products and services available from that land. Buyers and sellers agree on a price that captures expected income from the relevant outputs. Among the farmland services are certain amenities, some of which the landowner may withhold from non-payers and others for which exclusion costs ar...

research topics dealing with the application of the markal model have been quite common in the last 20+ years. every new paper has added new insight into the potential of using such a model for a variety of purposes. not only global but also local applications have shown both limits and benefits when dealing with manifold energy-environmental-resources optimal management. the aim of this wo...

The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...