URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

As cities in the developing world grow, their poor residents are being deprived of services, especially water, sewer, and solid waste collection, that can only be purchased expensively in private markets. But the inadequate provision of urban environmental services is not inevitable. A lack of will in this respect is partly due to an ambivalent attitude toward city growth and a widespread feeling that rural-urban migration is excessive. Provision of optimal urban environmental services is also expensive. While the budget problems are exacerbated by foolish pricing policies and cost inefficiencies, it may not be feasible for developing countries to provide all urban residents with optimal service levels. There are many ways to provide basic services to poor residents.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Focus, Vol. 1 No. 1

A literary magazine of student writing published by the Department of English of Stephen F. Austin State College.https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/focus/1000/thumbnail.jp

From short-term store to multicomponent working memory: The role of the modal model

The term “modal model” reflects the importance of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s paper in capturing the major developments in the cognitive psychology of memory that were achieved over the previous decade, providing an integrated framework that has formed the basis for many future developments. The fact that it is still the most cited model from that period some 50 years later has, we suggest, implications for the model itself and for theorising in psychology more generally. We review the essential foundations of the model before going on to discuss briefly the way in which one of its components, the short-term store, had influenced our own concept of a multicomponent working memory. This is followed by a discussion of recent claims that the concept of a short-term store be replaced by an interpretation in terms of activated long-term memory. We present several reasons to question these proposals. We conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of the longevity of the modal model for styles of theorising in cognitive psychology

ART. III.??? The Vital Statistics of War, as shown by the Official Returns of the British Army During the War with Russia, and by those of the United States Army During the War with Mexico:

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URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

As cities in the developing world grow, their poor residents are being deprived of services, especially water, sewer, and solid waste collection, that can only be purchased expensively in private markets. But the inadequate provision of urban environmental services is not inevitable. A lack of will in this respect is partly due to an ambivalent attitude toward city growth and a widespread feeling that rural-urban migration is excessive. Provision of optimal urban environmental services is also expensive. While the budget problems are exacerbated by foolish pricing policies and cost inefficiencies, it may not be feasible for developing countries to provide all urban residents with optimal service levels. There are many ways to provide basic services to poor residents

H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China\u27s economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China\u27s foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch\u27ing dynasty\u27s foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18). At the time of his death, Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world, and his works played a profound role in shaping the contours of Western scholarship on China. Begun as a labor of love by his protégé, John King Fairbank, this lively biography based primarily on Morse\u27s vast collection of personal papers sheds light on many crucial events in modern Chinese history, as well as on the multifaceted Western role in late imperial China, and provides new insights into the beginnings of modern China studies in this country. Half-finished when Fairbank died, the project was completed by his colleagues, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith. John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University and founder/director of Harvard\u27s East Asian Research Center, now the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. Martha Henderson Coolidge is associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Richard J. Smith is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Rice University. A useful survey of the workings of the late nineteenth-century Maritime Customs service. —Bibliographie With this biography coming as a labor of love and his last work, the reader can almost feel Fairbank closing the circle by once again entering into a dialogue with his old mentor. —Journal of Asian Studies Surprisingly pleasant to read. —Royal Asiatic Society The last fresh work we will have of John King Fairbank (1907-1991), and it is a fascinating coda to his remarkable career. —American Historical Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_asian_studies/1001/thumbnail.jp

Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the army of the United States ...

1839 to January 1855 issued as Senate Ex. doc.96, 34th Cong., 1st sess. 1855 to January 1860 issued as Senate Ex. doc. 52, 36th Cong., 1st sess.Report for 1819-1839 by Samuel Forry; 1839-1855, 1855-1860 by R. H. Coolidge.Prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, United States Army, 1839-1860."Compiled from the records of the Surgeon General's and Adjutant General's Offices", 1819-1839.Mode of access: Internet