Increasing urban green and blue structure is often pointed out to be critical for sustainable development and climate change adaptation, which has led to the rapid expansion of greening activities in cities throughout the world. This process is likely to have a direct impact on the citizens' quality of life and public health. However, alongside numerous benefits, green and blue infrastructure a...

the literature show evidence that small manufacturing enterprises (smes) are understood as main source of technology development and employment creation. at the same time they are vulnerable to a number of restrictions such as access to finances, skilled labor and public support, while are exposed to high competition and suffer from low survival rate. this research aims to shed lights on the ro...

I estimate the effect that growth in countries’ GDP per capita has on rate of infrastructure. In order to extract exogenous variation growth, use international oil price multiplied with shares net-exports as an instrumental variable. My variables estimates show that, for both democracies and autocracies, a significant positive infrastructure growth. This is significantly smaller anocracies—so m...

introduction: telemedicine is defined as the ability to provide interactive health care by modern technologies and telecommunications which require related infrastructure and technologies. the aim of this study was to assess infrastructures of telemedicine at health centers, hospitals and clinics affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences. method: this is a cross-sectional study conduc...

as one way to approach industrial symbiosis, environmental infrastructure sharing is principally concerned with providing an integrated environmental utility system for clustered firms. it is based on the assumption that environmental infrastructure sharing can improve the regional competitive advantage by reducing overall cost and improving environmental performance. in order to verify the ass...

Networked Infrastructure systems deliver services and/or products from point to point along the network. Demand for the services provided by such systems is typically cyclic, creating inefficiencies in capacity utilization. Congestion pricing provides incentives to shift demand from peak time periods to lower demand periods. This effectively increases the capacity of the system without the need...