On a typical Tuesday night, about 13,000 cabs travel south from the Upper East Side to a destination between 14th Street and Canal Street; on Saturdays, about three times as many cabs (38,000 on average) make the trip.
Travis Kalanick, the company's chief executive, says demand was brisk but blames the city's taxi regulator for a shortage of cabs (160 drivers took part).
Throughout the city, 79 percent of the serious crashes involved private passenger cars; 13 percent involved taxis or livery cabs; 4 percent involved trucks; and 3 percent involved buses.
The second step involved a search in the CABs 1973 2006, Current Contents 1998 2006 and Medline 1950 2006.
A total of 98 questionnaires were completed (69 from CABs, 21 from RECs, and 8 from site staff) with a response rate of 43%.
We first searched for articles in three bibliographical databases (CABs 1973 2006, Current Contents 1998 2006 and Medline 1950 2006) with a formula containing the words model* and resistan* (REX Consortium, 2007).
As reported for other CABs [ 2, 6, 13], a major function reported in this study was that of facilitating communication between the research team and the community.
For the photoperiod library, we examined the expression of Brachypodium orthologs for the genes GIGANTEA (BdGI, Bradi2g05230 [ 32]) and TIMING OF CAB 1 (Bradi3g48880, Bradi3g48880 [ 33]; Figure 1A and Methods).
The IAP may be affected by conditions influencing intra-abdominal volume and abdominal compliance (Cab) [ 3, 8, 9].
Within a few years Scull had built up his share into a fleet of 130 cabs with 400 drivers.
