local bus network is the most popular transit mode and the only available transit mode in the majority of cities of the world. increasing the utility of this mode which increases its share from urban trips is an important goal for city planners. timetable setting as the second component of bus network design problem (network route design timetable setting vehicle assignment crew assignment) hav...

But I believe that private practitioners make a significant mistake when they avoid data-based research. This mistake is not so primarily a matter of failing to "keep up to date" with the literature, but more so in missing new potential practice opportunities. Psychologists are typically interested in keeping their practices fresh and evolving and are especially looking for opportunities outsid...

Organic synthesis is widely regarded as having begun nearly two centuries ago, with Friedrich Wöhler’s 1828 discovery that ammonium cyanate could be converted into urea [2]. Since that seminal finding, chemical synthesis has advanced to extents which must have been unimaginable to its early practitioners. The numerous paradigm-shifts which have taken place throughout the history of synthesis ha...

Just as observing is more than just seeing, comparing is far more than mere matching. It takes understanding, and even inventiveness, to discern a useful basis for judging two ideas as similar in a particular context, especially when our perspective is shaped by an act of linguistic creativity such as metaphor, simile or analogy. Structured resources such as WordNet offer a convenient hierarchi...

An authentic sickness history is the vantage point for juxtaposing a biomedical and a biographical-phenomenological reading. What, in a biomedical framework, appears to be a longstanding state of comorbidity of different and unrelated types of diseases is rendered transparent in a biographical reading. This particular reading, evidencing the shortcomings of a biomedical framework regarding iden...