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Disabled people and the Web: User-based measurement of accessibility [PDF]

, 2012
Being able to use websites is an important aspect of every-day life to most people, including disabled people. However, despite the existence of technical guidelines for accessibility for more than a decade, disabled users still find problems using ...
Freire, André Pimenta
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The Economics of Free Internet Access [PDF]

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2001
In an increasing number of European countries, Internet service providers offer free Internet access. Telephone companies are willing to pay these providers based on the amount of traffic they generate. In this paper, we explain these phenomena. We argue that, by offering a contract that pays the provider a certain lump sum conditional on it providing ...
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Economic integration and market access

European Economic Review, 1991
Traditional analysis of the effect of economic integration on the rest of the world draws unambiguously pessimistic conclusions. Integration causes trade diversion which reduces demand for the rest of the world’s exports, and reduces supply of its imports. The rest of the world’s terms of trade may therefore deteriorate with associated welfare loss. As
Smith, A, Venables, A
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FINANCIAL ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: RUSSIA VS USA

Финансы: теория и практика, 2017
In the innovation economy the higher vocational education is getting inseparable from the concept of «educated person», i.e. becomes universal in nature.
E. V. Bogomolov
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The Influence of Sichuan–Tibet Railway on the Accessibility and Economic Development of City Propers along the Line: Taking Chengdu and Ya’an as Examples

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021
The Chengdu-Ya’an section of Sichuan-Tibet Railway (STR), which has already started operation, is taken as an example. First, we apply the weighted average travel time and gravity model to analyze the accessibility of the site cities and the economic ...
Yang Yu, Wang Wei, and Wang Jue
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Spatial Complex Network Analysis and Accessibility Indicators: the Case of Municipal Commuting in Sardinia, Italy [PDF]

, 2011
In this paper a contribution is presented with respect to accessibility indicators modelling for commuters moving through the municipalities of Sardinia, in Italy.
Andrea De Montis, Caschili, Simone, De Montis, Andrea, Alessandro Chessa, Simone Caschili, Chessa, Alessandro, De Montis A   +6 more
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Economics of Access to Energy

, 2022
AbstractEnergy services underpin the socio-economic development of nations and their prosperity. This chapter discusses the key obstacles that have so far prevented 840 million people worldwide from gaining access to electricity and 2.9 billion from accessing clean cooking facilities.
Giacomo Falchetta, Simone Tagliapietra
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Measuring Regional Cohesion Effects of Large-scale Transport Infrastructure Investments: An Accessibility Approach. [PDF]

, 2008
Cohesion is considered one of the main policy goals both at a EU an national level. However, there is currently a lack of a common approach to measure cohesion effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investments.
López Suárez, Elena, Gutierrez, Javier, Gomez, Gabriel   +2 more
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Monitoring and Assessing Ukraine’s Food Security Indicators under Crisis Conditions [PDF]

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In wartime, systematic monitoring of food security indicators and their assessment in accordance with new realities is of particular importance. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive analysis, monitoring, and assessment of food ...
Olena Shebanina, Oleksandr Zhebko
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Access networks for mobility A techno-economic model for broadband access technologies [PDF]

2009 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities and Workshops, 2009
The two main challenges for the access networks are the increasing bandwidth demand and mobility trends. The “triple play” services required (Internet, telephone and TV services) lead to a great increase in bandwidth demand. However, the existing access networks are not able to support this increase, and the capacity to delivery broadband services ...
Pereira, João Paulo, Ferreira, Pedro A.
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