Streets have long been designed to maximize motor vehicle throughput, ignoring other street users. Many cities are now reversing this trend and implementing policies design more equitable streets. However, few existing tools metrics enable widescale assessment, evaluation, longitudinal tracking of these space rebalancing efforts, i.e., assessing how the current is, it can be improved, much prog...

Semantic web technologies have shown their effectiveness, especially when it comes to knowledge representation, reasoning, and data integration. However, the original semantic vision, whereby machine readable could be automatically actioned upon by intelligent software agents, has yet realised. In order better understand existing technological opportunities challenges, in this paper we examine ...

this study examins effects of trade liberalization on the wage inequality between urban and rural labor by utilizing the data of micro-level households’ income and expenditures surveys and trade statistics over 2001-2011. the analysis is carried based on the heckscher–ohlin’s theory in international trade and baker’s taste discrimination theory at firms. we use quantile regression and ordinary ...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of medical education quality in achieving a healthy community, there is a need for the development of valid and reliable tools for efficient measurement of quality of medical education services. SEVQUAL is a popular services quality measuring framework used in assessment of quality in various service sectors. The purpose of this study was to...

background:students are the main customers of the universities. thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. this study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with kerman university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive-analytical study. three hundred and th...