The study sought to investigate the nature and operations of street food vendors including socio-economic features influencing street food vending spatial distribution and its impact on the local environment and urban life within the context of sustainable development. Data were collected...

Burnham and Rexstad (1993) presented a band recovery model that incorporates time-dependent recovery rates and survival rates. In this paper, an estimating function approach is proposed to derive estimators of recovery rates and survival rates. Explicit expressions are given for the derived...

The Wells wind turbine, which is used in the oscillating water column wave energy device, is simple but has a low efficiency. It stalls in strong winds caused by large waves and has a subsequent slow recovery. Its close relationship with the vertical axis wind turbine is pointed out. A novel...

The tidal stream turbine is the major device we use to obtain the kinetic energy of tides. The blades of the rotor are one of the essential parts which can convert tidal current energy into mechanical energy. Now most horizontal-axis turbine blade design theories are mostly based on the BEM...

Die Beteiligung ostdeutscher Unternehmen an Inlandsmessen wurde erstmals im Herbst 1990 gefördert. In der Folgezeit wurde die Förderung mehrfach verlängert und modifiziert, nicht zuletzt weil sich das gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstum in den neuen Bundesländern verlangsamte. Das ifo Institut...

"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"The aim of this study is to analyze impacts of the introduction of the minimum wage in the German construction sector on wages and employment using micro data. The introduction of the minimum wage in 1997, which is binding for all blue-collar workers, is related to the Worker Posting Law....

"Based on the Linked-Employer-Employee data from the IAB (LIAB) we show how the horizontal occupational segregation of men and women in German establishments developed between 1996 and 2005. For this purpose we apply the dissimilarity index and the standardized dissimilarity index at the...

"'Marginal employment', i. e. employment with low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set from the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency and...

"Job creation schemes have been one of the most important programmes of active labour market policy in Germany throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the new century. A number of studies have analysed the effects of job creation schemes in Germany, presenting an overall disappointing...