climate is a natural resource that effects decision making for selection of destinations in tourism and ecotourism. therelationship between climate and tourism is a complex one. but application of a climate index provides an ideal approachto understanding this complexity and is a useful tool for the tourism industry. in this study, a modified version ofmieczkowski's (1985) tourism climate index...

tomato yellow leaf curl virus (tylcv) is considered as one of the most important tomato viruses in tropical and subtropical areas. in order to identify and investigate the presence of this virus in fields , greenhouses and cultivated tomato plants in tuneles of khorasan razavi, southern and northern khorasan provinces, during 2009 and 2011, plants which have been showed the symptoms were collec...

The purpose of this article is to introduce the large prehistoric site Hajjiabad-Varamin, its changes in time and first discoveries made there, specific literature on early Bronze Age south-eastern Iranian Plateau. part describes site, present damaged conditions, periodisation we adopted complex topographic shifts functions through time. second focuses settlement 3rd millennium BC discusses a m...

Managing City Evacuations

Prior research debates focus on whether investors are smart enough to invest in funds that subsequently outperform. This paper documents a robust smart money effect among small fund investors who invest in the top performing funds, even after controlling for the momentum factor argued by Sapp and Tiwari (2004). I further explore the reason for the smart money effect and find that such outperfor...

We construct a game theoretic model of an oligarchic economy that potentially could be targeted by smart international sanctions. Oligarchs in this economy provide support for their leader, a strong man and potentially an autocrat, in return for favors that results in having income higher than the average income in the country. We derive the conditions under which smart sanctions lead to compli...

This is a summary of the workshop that was held as part of the ICT4S conference with a focus on the topic of social practices and smart grids. Here we present an overview of the five invited paper contributions to the workshop, as well as a summary of the plenary discussion, and our final conclusions. Keywords—sustainability; ICT; social practice theory; smart grid; design