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This paper evaluates the equality of the Brazilian system of pensions paid in rural areas during the 1990s. The … equality implies equal access to the social security beneï¬ts, regardless ethnic, sex and education differences among retired …¬rmed by the Probit model estimated. The paper ï¬nishes with some suggestions to improve the equality of pensions paid in rural …
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During the last two decades several integrated tools have been developed to make the existing scientific knowledge available to river managers and assist them with the formulation and evaluation of alternative combinations of measures. Yet, few practical examples of embedding of these...
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Sea transport of natural gas in the form of hydrate pellets is a new technological approach. Introducing new technologies bears raises the possibility of introducing unknown risks or—in case of alternatives for already existing technical solutions—higher risk, either human-, environmental-,...
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This report studies the current development of functional requirements and interface standards for the public transit industry. It begins with a critical review of recent architecture efforts and their functional and interface requirements. It then describes the results of a survey of public...
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This paper describes the results of an assessment of benefits from an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) architecture, based on the National ITS Architecture Development program. Benefits of the architecture include those typically attributed to systems engineering and integration. The...
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Presents a sketch of a system architecture for the control and management tasks of an intelligent vehicle/highway system (IVHS)
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This report defines an architecture for Automated Highway System (AHS) capacity-optimizing traffic planning functions. It identifies major traffic planning functions useful for optimizing the capacity of one or more major AHS operating scenarios and organizes them in a robust architecture that...
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This report documents a single-channel architecture offering two-way communication between vehicles and a fixed communication infrastructure. Part I discusses the technical advantages and disadvantages of a dedicated Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) communications infrastructure versus...
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This report focuses on the design of controllers for platoons of automatically-controlled automobiles using COSPAN computer language. In order to ensure that it is safe to initiate a maneuver, the platoon layer controller enters into a negotiation with its neighbors and is implemented as a...
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This paper documents the development of a communications architecture for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) being studied by the California PATH Program. The authors use a layered architecture based on the OSI 7- layer reference model.
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