The history of Switzerland is outlined briefly with special reference to evolution from unilingual to quadrilingual polity. Official modern language policy in the four language territories is described, with data on language boundaries and relative number of speakers. Extent of individual (as against societal) multilingualism in Switzerland is described, in conjunction with language attitudes a...

EEective urban management and planning requires an understanding of the forces driving cities' development. Trends in population density and distribution are of particular importance, but are diicult to measure, and recent studies have come to connicting conclusions regarding the rate of decentralization in U.S. cities. We use a new metric to obtain new evidence regarding decentralization in U....

The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites [10]. Although it is a relatively new concept, the first time the term was coined and printed in a fairly accessible place was in the year 2001 [20]. There are already many successful industrial applications that use Semantic Web technologies. This work...

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Had these and other issues been clearly understood in 1988 when the World Health Assembly passed the resolution that committed all countries to polio eradication by the year 2000, the decision to eradicate would have been more difficult. But fortunately, buoyed by the then recent success in the eradication of smallpox, active debate on whether to use inactivated or live polio vaccines, awarenes...