Ian Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 750268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9359-2855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indro Montanelli
This essay looks at the four-year period Indro Montanelli spent as a journalist, writer, and Fascist government representative in Estonia, Poland, and Finland between 1937 and 1941: four years during which the map of Europe was permanently redrawn. Much of the research is new. It complements the two-volume life of Montanelli by Sandro Gerbi and Raffaele Liucci (issued as a single volume in 2014 as Indro Montanelli: una biografia (1909–2001 ), and…
The Pied Piper’s pipe
The story of the Pied Piper attracting rats and children away from the town of Hameln by playing music on a pipe is well known. Artists and writers inspired by the legendary magical qualities of the pipe have associated it with a variety of flutes, bagpipes, and whistles. However, scant academic attention has been paid to what kind of medieval pipe might actually have influenced this unusual story, nor indeed why a pipe, and not perhaps a string …
Primo Levi
Sport and Scholarships at Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
This is an account of the growth and development of a scholarship scheme at one university, located in a wider context of expansion of sport in higher education. In itself the scheme is not profoundly significant but its importance lies in the impact it has had on elite student sport in Universities across Britain. It led the way until the Government was prepared to fund a national scholarships scheme. It provided a model for development based on…
Urban traffic congestion
ESTUDIOS DE CASOS, INFRAESTRUCTURA DEL TRANSPORTE, PRECIOS, REDES VIALES, TRAFICO URBANO, TRANSPORTE PUBLICO, ZONAS URBANAS, CASE STUDIES, PRICES, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, ROAD NETWORKS, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN AREAS, URBAN TRAFFIC
Concessions and road and rail transport optimization
The Latin American railways faced serious competition from another means of land transport for the first time in the 1930s, and one of the results of this was a significant loss of income from the transport of products of relatively high unit value. This income had covered their fixed costs in terms of management and infrastructure. The financial difficulties of the railway companies drove them to seek aid from the State sector, but in subsequent…
A Guide to the Documentation of the European Union
The evolution of the State’s role In the regulation of land transport
For nearly twenty years, the land transport sector of various Latin American countries has been undergoing highly significant institutional changes, both through the participation of the private sector and through the easing of economic regulations, giving rise to new needs for regulation of the market in general and the operating units in particular. The most important changes have taken place in rail and bus transport and in the road transport …
Why doesn’t investment in public transport reduce urban traffic congestion
There is urban traffic congestion in most parts of the world, including Latin America. Among the measures aimed at solving this problem, many cities have built suburban railways or metros. However, these have had little or no effect, as is shown by studies which indicate that investments in the public transport system are incapable of solving this problem on their cars. This article takes the view that when a new metro line or similar system is o…
Improving urban transport for the poor
Even though Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized and the least poor of the regions of the developing world, a quarter of the region’s population live, or rather exist, below the poverty line. Many of these are town or city dwellers, Many lower income families spend more than 15% of their income on urban public transport: a proportion which has been rising continuously over the past few decades because bus operating costs per pass…
The Scholar as Hero in Ianus Pannonius' Panegyric on Guarinus Veronensis
Specialists in the Italian Renaissance know the importance of the great humanist Guarinus Veronensis (1374-1460) and are familiar with the salient points of his life. Still lacking is a series of up-to-date monographs on his more important students and the part they played in the spread of humanism in Europe. Recently, however, there have appeared in English several studies of Ianus Pannonius (1434-72), once described by Guarinus as "a studentboa…
Tourist trains with steam traction in Chile
Toward better urban transport planning in developing countries
Urban transport in Latin America. Some considerations on its equity and efficiency
The travelling conditions of all the city-dwellers of Latin America are made more difficult by high levels of congestion, but the lower-income strata are in a particularly negative position, since they are usually limited to the use of buses and thus have to spend a larger proportion of their time and money on travelling than the better-off sectors of the population
Res Publica Litterarum
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Some Notes on the Contents of Guarino's Library
This article has two purposes: first, to correct the common misconception that Guarino da Verona (1374-1460) brought more than fifty Greek codices with him from Constantinople to Italy in 1408; second, to discuss his collection of Platonica.Nowhere in Guarino's own writings nor, so far as I know, in those of any of his humanist contemporaries is there mention of his having returned to Italy with a large collection of Greek manuscripts. The story …
Further Thoughts on the Nature Method
A Manual for Teachers of Hans H. Oerberg's Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata Volumes 1-11
The Nature Method of Latin Instruction at Indiana University
A Textual Problem in the Epistolary of Guarino
In Remigio Sabbadini's edition of the epistolary of Guarino Veronese, Letter 192 (Vol. 1, 306-307) ends as follows: ‘Vale mea suavitas; valeat et primaria femina θεoδωρα a sua filia Tadea, quae illam tantopere amat, sitit, ardet oculis et animo, ut iam nunc ascensionem meditetur.’ Sabbadini notes in his critical apparatus: ‘ascensionem non capisco. Forse a me secessionem.’ I hope to show, however, that the text is sound.By its subscription we kno…
Changing Patterns in South Asia
The Revival of the Agape
Urban transport in Latin America. Some considerations on its equity and efficiency
The travelling conditions of all the city-dwellers of Latin America are made more difficult by high levels of congestion, but the lower-income strata are in a particularly negative position, since they are usually limited to the use of buses and thus have to spend a larger proportion of their time and money on travelling than the better-off sectors of the population
Why doesn’t investment in public transport reduce urban traffic congestion
There is urban traffic congestion in most parts of the world, including Latin America. Among the measures aimed at solving this problem, many cities have built suburban railways or metros. However, these have had little or no effect, as is shown by studies which indicate that investments in the public transport system are incapable of solving this problem on their cars. This article takes the view that when a new metro line or similar system is o…
The Revival of the Agape
Changing Patterns in South Asia
A Textual Problem in the Epistolary of Guarino
In Remigio Sabbadini's edition of the epistolary of Guarino Veronese, Letter 192 (Vol. 1, 306-307) ends as follows: ‘Vale mea suavitas; valeat et primaria femina θεoδωρα a sua filia Tadea, quae illam tantopere amat, sitit, ardet oculis et animo, ut iam nunc ascensionem meditetur.’ Sabbadini notes in his critical apparatus: ‘ascensionem non capisco. Forse a me secessionem.’ I hope to show, however, that the text is sound.By its subscription we kno…
The Nature Method of Latin Instruction at Indiana University
A Manual for Teachers of Hans H. Oerberg's Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata Volumes 1-11
Some Notes on the Contents of Guarino's Library
This article has two purposes: first, to correct the common misconception that Guarino da Verona (1374-1460) brought more than fifty Greek codices with him from Constantinople to Italy in 1408; second, to discuss his collection of Platonica.Nowhere in Guarino's own writings nor, so far as I know, in those of any of his humanist contemporaries is there mention of his having returned to Italy with a large collection of Greek manuscripts. The story …
Further Thoughts on the Nature Method
Res Publica Litterarum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Urban transport in Latin America. Some considerations on its equity and efficiency
The travelling conditions of all the city-dwellers of Latin America are made more difficult by high levels of congestion, but the lower-income strata are in a particularly negative position, since they are usually limited to the use of buses and thus have to spend a larger proportion of their time and money on travelling than the better-off sectors of the population
Toward better urban transport planning in developing countries
Tourist trains with steam traction in Chile
The Scholar as Hero in Ianus Pannonius' Panegyric on Guarinus Veronensis
Specialists in the Italian Renaissance know the importance of the great humanist Guarinus Veronensis (1374-1460) and are familiar with the salient points of his life. Still lacking is a series of up-to-date monographs on his more important students and the part they played in the spread of humanism in Europe. Recently, however, there have appeared in English several studies of Ianus Pannonius (1434-72), once described by Guarinus as "a studentboa…
Improving urban transport for the poor
Even though Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized and the least poor of the regions of the developing world, a quarter of the region’s population live, or rather exist, below the poverty line. Many of these are town or city dwellers, Many lower income families spend more than 15% of their income on urban public transport: a proportion which has been rising continuously over the past few decades because bus operating costs per pass…
Why doesn’t investment in public transport reduce urban traffic congestion
There is urban traffic congestion in most parts of the world, including Latin America. Among the measures aimed at solving this problem, many cities have built suburban railways or metros. However, these have had little or no effect, as is shown by studies which indicate that investments in the public transport system are incapable of solving this problem on their cars. This article takes the view that when a new metro line or similar system is o…
The evolution of the State’s role In the regulation of land transport
For nearly twenty years, the land transport sector of various Latin American countries has been undergoing highly significant institutional changes, both through the participation of the private sector and through the easing of economic regulations, giving rise to new needs for regulation of the market in general and the operating units in particular. The most important changes have taken place in rail and bus transport and in the road transport …
Concessions and road and rail transport optimization
The Latin American railways faced serious competition from another means of land transport for the first time in the 1930s, and one of the results of this was a significant loss of income from the transport of products of relatively high unit value. This income had covered their fixed costs in terms of management and infrastructure. The financial difficulties of the railway companies drove them to seek aid from the State sector, but in subsequent…
A Guide to the Documentation of the European Union
Urban traffic congestion
ESTUDIOS DE CASOS, INFRAESTRUCTURA DEL TRANSPORTE, PRECIOS, REDES VIALES, TRAFICO URBANO, TRANSPORTE PUBLICO, ZONAS URBANAS, CASE STUDIES, PRICES, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, ROAD NETWORKS, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN AREAS, URBAN TRAFFIC
Sport and Scholarships at Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
This is an account of the growth and development of a scholarship scheme at one university, located in a wider context of expansion of sport in higher education. In itself the scheme is not profoundly significant but its importance lies in the impact it has had on elite student sport in Universities across Britain. It led the way until the Government was prepared to fund a national scholarships scheme. It provided a model for development based on…
Primo Levi
The Pied Piper’s pipe
The story of the Pied Piper attracting rats and children away from the town of Hameln by playing music on a pipe is well known. Artists and writers inspired by the legendary magical qualities of the pipe have associated it with a variety of flutes, bagpipes, and whistles. However, scant academic attention has been paid to what kind of medieval pipe might actually have influenced this unusual story, nor indeed why a pipe, and not perhaps a string …
Indro Montanelli
This essay looks at the four-year period Indro Montanelli spent as a journalist, writer, and Fascist government representative in Estonia, Poland, and Finland between 1937 and 1941: four years during which the map of Europe was permanently redrawn. Much of the research is new. It complements the two-volume life of Montanelli by Sandro Gerbi and Raffaele Liucci (issued as a single volume in 2014 as Indro Montanelli: una biografia (1909–2001 ), and…
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