433 research outputs found
Urban Mobility and Transportation Policy — with Anthony Perl
No full textSFU Urban Studies professor Anthony Perl joins host Am Johal in conversation about urban mobility and the policy challenges and opportunities that shape the way people move through Canada\u27s largest urban centres: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.They discuss findings from Anthony\u27s new book, Big Moves: Global Agendas, Local Aspirations, and Urban Mobility in Canada, co-authored with Matt Hern and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy. Anthony traces the history of transportation infrastructure development through these three cities, and he and Am look towards a future that embraces more integrated and sustainable mobility options for urban and suburban life.Resources:— About Anthony Perl: https://www.sfu.ca/politics/people/profiles/aperl.html— Big Moves: Global Agendas, Local Aspirations, and Urban Mobility in Canada by Anthony perl, Matt Hern and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy: https://www.mqup.ca/big-moves-products-9780228001607.php— Vancouver City Planning Commission: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/vancouver-city-planning-commission.asp
Perl Family Collection. 1905-2004
No full textThis collection contains photocopies of documents pertaining to Anton Felix Perl’s emigration from Vienna to Canada, as well as has medical training and career as a physician in Canada, including school and medical certificates, correspondence, vital records, and photographs. Also included are family trees of the Perl and Richter families, as well as an essay, photographs, and clippings about Dr. Frederick Ludwig Eid, with whom Perl worked in Macklin, Saskatchewan.Anton Felix Perl (later Anthony Felix Perl) was born on October 27, 1912, in Vienna, Austria. His parents Siegfried Leopold Perl (1880-1943) and Elisabeth née Richter (1883-1943) were of Jewish origin but converted to Catholicism in 1912. From 1922 to 1930, Perl studied at Schottengymnasium in Vienna. In 1936, he graduated from the Universität Wien with his medical degree. Perl was a resident at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna from his graduation in 1936 until he was fired on racial grounds in 1938. He then immigrated to Canada in 1938 with the help of the archbishops of Winnipeg and Regina. Both of Perl's parents died in Auschwitz in 1943. Once in Canada, Perl continued his practice of medicine, specializing in internal medicine. In 1941, Perl married E. Arleen Tweed. He died on November 2, 1985, in Sarnia, Ontario.digitizedProcesse
Reflections on experimental science: Martin Perl
No full textThis is a collection of important lecture and original articles and commentaries by Martin Perl, discoverer of the tau lepton and the third generation of elementary particles, and this year's Nobel Prize winner. This book contains a fascinating and realistic picture of experimental science based on the high energy physics research work carried out by him. Using reprints of his articles with his commentaries, the author presents the various aspects of experimental research in science: the pleasures and risks of experimental work; the pain and frustration with experiments that are useless or fa
What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the <i>Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy</i>
No full textOur Handbook’s assembly of research findings on the ways that policymaking can affect transportation outcomes highlights the influence of government and politics as forces that shape mobility. Through mindful consideration and dialogue, those who study transportation can learn from those who study policymaking and vice versa. This chapter highlights the ways in which politics influence transportation decisions and outcomes through the allocation of authority and resources to advance certain transportation options over other alternatives. It also considers how governmental structures can enable or constrain collaboration and partnerships among public and private agents in delivering transportation options. Some contributions explore contestation at the project or agency level, where the capability to advance goals such as equity, efficiency, or sustainability can vary based on the political efficacy of participants. Our contributors provide ample evidence that the study of politics and policy in transportation can yield insights into improving outcomes
Transportation Politics and Policy:A Research Agenda
No full textThis chapter provides an introduction to the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy, which aims to bring politics, policy and transportation research into greater dialogue. In laying the foundation for the multiple, rich contributions to the Handbook, the chapter has three aims. First is to examine why, despite the ongoing interplay between politics and transportation across scales, transport studies to date minimise the role of politics. We identify two reasons for this: the effect of neoliberalism on the transport sector and the myth of objectivity in transport planning. The chapter’s second aim is to examine why the policy studies literature rarely focuses on transportation. We argue this is due to a number of factors, including the pervasiveness of New Public Management and research fashions. The third and final aim is to justify why focusing on politics and policy in the transportation space is necessary and valuable
Perl one-liners
No full text130 Time-Saving, Problem-Solving Perl Scripts That Get Things DonePart of the fun of programming in Perl lies in tackling tedious tasks with short, efficient, and reusable code. Often, the perfect tool is the one-liner, a small but powerful program that fits in one line of code and does one thing really well.In Perl One-Liners, author and impatient hacker Peteris Krumins takes you through more than 100 compelling one-liners that do all sorts of handy things, such as manipulate line spacing, tally column values in a table, and get a list of users on a system. This cookbook of useful, customiza
New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century
No full textNorth America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains’ capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.
Any Canadian or American with a serious interest in transportation policy will find this thoughtful and informative book worth reading. —Canadian Public Administration
Well written and timely, New Departures provides excellent background from the current debate over the future of Amtrak and VIA Rail (in Canada). —Choice
Dispassionately examines every angle of the perplexing rail-passenger dilemma in North America. —Louisville Courier-Journal
A seminal work that lays out all the dimensions of the current state of intercity rail passenger service in both the United States and Canada. —New York History
An informed analysis of where rail passenger operations in the U.S. and Canada have been, where they are, and where they may be going, along with a look at those countries whose passenger trains are light years ahead of ours. —Railway Age
New Departures is not only the most comprehensive look at rail passenger service in North America, it is the most timely. With air travel suddenly becoming a mature industry after September 11th, the nation is realizing that it is missing a vital balance in passenger transportation, a balance that could be provided by high speed passenger rail service. Anthony’s book lays out the best policy framework I have ever seen for making rail passenger investments. Anyone engaged in debating the role of high speed rail in North America should read this book. —Thomas Downshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_transportation/1000/thumbnail.jp
A suite of Perl modules for handling microarray data
No full textWe describe PerlMAT, a Perl microarray toolkit providing easy to use object-oriented methods for the simplified manipulation, management and analysis of microarray data. The toolkit provides objects for the encapsulation of microarray spots and reporters, several common microarray data file formats and GAL files. In addition, an analysis object provides methods for data processing, and an image object enables the visualisation of microarray data. This important addition to the Perl developer's library will facilitate more widespread use of Perl for microarray application development within the bioinformatics community. The coherent interface and well-documented code enables rapid analysis by even inexperienced Perl developers. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
Introduction to The Canvas and Other Stories by Salamea Perl
No full textThe Canvas and Other Stories by Salomea Perl is a bilingual Yiddish-English text featuring the only known stories Perl wrote and published in the various Yiddish newspapers of her time. Uncovered after two years of research and translated by Ruth Murphy, the book presents the original Yiddish text and English translation in a side-by-side format. Murphy\u27s translations present Perl\u27s voice to English readers, while Perl\u27s rich, authentic Yiddish brings readers back to the Jewish, Yiddish-speaking streets of turn-of-the-century Poland. The insightful introduction by Dr. Justin Cammy gives the historical background of both the text and its author. The work of Salomea Perl, an author completely unknown until these translations, is an important addition to ongoing discovery of female Yiddish writers.
Salomea Perl (1869-1916) was born in the town of Lomża (now Poland) and raised in the larger city of Lublin. After completing studies at the University of Geneva, she settled in Warsaw. Her Yiddish first stories were published n Yontev Bletlekh, the self-proclaimed radical magazine published by Y. L. Peretz, starting in 1895. Her seventh and final known Yiddish work was published in 1910.
The publication here of all seven known stories by Salomea Perl is not only important because it marks the rediscovery of a forgotten Yiddish writer. It also allows us to consider her unsentimental portraits of a Jewish world in transition. Her stories reveal deep class divisions and the prevalence of Jewish poverty. She investigates how the religious values that guided everyday life often lacked compassion for lived experience. Perl explores the social and cultural ruptures caused by internal migration from small towns to big cities, and new manifestations of secular Jewish identity associated with modern life.
At the same time, for every frayed relationship between a husband and wife or a daughter shunning her father, Perl\u27s fiction also reveals unassuming acts of self-sacrifice and modesty. For every abandonment of religious obligation in favor of the seductions of the secular-modern world there remain those who are content to carry on lives of relative simplicity.
From the Introduction by Justin Cammy, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
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Perl and Apache: Your visual blueprint for developing dynamic Web content
No full textVisually explore the range of built-in and third-party libraries of Perl and Apache. Perl and Apache have been providing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) access to Web sites for 20 years and are constantly evolving to support the ever-changing demands of Internet users. With this book, you will heighten your knowledge and see how to usePerl and Apache to develop dynamic Web sites. Beginning with a clear, step-by-step explanation of how to install Perl and Apache on both Windows and Linux servers, you then move on to configuring each to securely provide CGI Services. CGI developer and author Ada
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