To date, relatively little is known about the nature of the demand for high-speed rail (HSR) soon after inauguration of the services, despite close to 50-year experience of HSR operation and 17 166 km of HSR network around the world. This is a real lacuna given the scale of HSR construction...

With their species diversity, their population abundance and their integrator characters, higher plants represent useful tools to solve problems concerning the environment analysis and management. As they are good bioindicators, plants integrate many environmental parameters and can help to...

During World War II, the spread between the 3 percent rentes and the Vichy government bonds reflected French investors' perception of the shifting fortunes of war and the willingness of future post-war government to repay the debt issued by the collaborationist regime. Structural breaks in this...

By examining stock market reactions to the announcement of operational losses by financial companies, this paper attempts to disentangle operational losses from reputational damage. Our analysis deals with 154 events coming from the FIRST database of OpVantage. Events occurred between 1990 and...

Depuis plus d'une décennie, le transport aérien intra-européen est libéralisé. Les compagnies communautaires se sont ainsi vu offrir une liberté d'accès au marché et peuvent donc organiser leurs réseaux comme bon leur semble. Cependant, il leur faut parallèlement être rentables car...

In Brazil, despite the existence of various environmental laws to protect mangroves, this ecosystem has been affected by a variety of anthropogenic activities. The São Francisco River Estuary (SFRE, Brazil Northeast) comprises significant mangrove forests, important for human populations, and...

Free tuberculosis control fail to protect patients from substantial medical and non-medical expenditure, thus a greater degree of disaggregation of patient cost is needed to fully capture their context and inform policymaking.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is now adopted as a formal procedure in various organisations. Nevertheless, the question of how to choose the most suitable SEA participatory approach for a given situation is far from being resolved. To shed light on this question, we briefly describe...

This study describes the above ground biomass production of 17 poplar (Populus spp.) clones after a 4-year rotation in a short-rotation coppice culture. In addition, the link with soil characteristics was studied. In April 1996, an experimental field plantation with 10,000 cuttings ha-1 was...