Im August 1992 einigten sich die USA, Kanada und Mexiko über die Schaffung der nordamerikanischen Freihandelszone. Der Freihandelsvertrag enthält Bestimmungen über die Liberalisierung des Handels- und Dienstleistungsverkehrs, Anregungen zur Verbesserung der Investitions- und...

This report is part of an ongoing study of attitudes toward the act of traveling and the relationship of these attitudes to travel behavior and other characteristics. The primary purposes of this portion of the research are as follows: 1. From sets of interrelated variables, use factor analysis...

There is little doubt that a high-speed rail line could be built in the California corridor, connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. To be sure some major obstacles must be reckoned with. It will have to cross the Tehachapi Mountains directly, if it's to keep travel time under control. This...

Some analogies in the distribution of damage in the 1985 Mexico, 1989 Loma Prieta, and 1995 Kobe earthquakes may be attributable to similarities in the history of reclamation of bayshore or lakeshore environments by emplacing artificial fill on soft mud. In all three cases, a transitional...

Using a variety of data sources, this paper examines health care utilization patterns of Healthy San Francisco enrollees. The findings suggest that the program, designed to increase uninsured people's access to health care, is increasing access to primary care for participating adults, improving...

The apolitical legitimacy of “evidence-based medicine” offers a practical means for ethnography and critical social-science-and-humanities-of-health theory to transfer survival resources to structurally vulnerable populations and to engage policy and services audiences with urgent political...

In the context of continuing influxes of large numbers of immigrants to the United States, urban labor market segmentation along the lines of race/ethnicity, gender, and class has drawn considerable growing attention. Using a confidential dataset extracted from the United States Decennial Long...

El presente trabajo pretende alcanzar un nivel clasificatorio y tienepor objeto principal analizar el preámbulo del Pacto de la Sociedad de Naciones y elpreámbulo de la Carta de San Francisco. Procurando respetar las normasmetodológicas, el marco teórico que guiará dicho análisis es aquel...