Following development and qualitative and quantitative changes in communities, that have made substantial changes in historic environments, the authenticity concept has attracted attention in order to strike a balance between conservation and development approaches. The concept of authenticity as the transmitter of values and significance of cultural heritage, is regarded as a key criterion in ...

*Formation of Soft Nanomachines, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, †Single Molecule Processes Project, International Cooperative Research Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, ‡Department of Biophysical Engineering, Osaka University, §Soft Biosystem Group, Laboratories for Nanobiology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osak...

The major aim of this research is benchmarking Honeywell Federal Manufacturing &Technologies projects using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique and to compare the results with that of published recently in Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman. (2011). A case study approach for developing a project performance evaluation system. International Journal of Project Managem...

after-tax cash flows to differ from its before-tax cash flows. To estimate the future cash flows that are to be generated by a proposed foreign project (such as the establishment of a new subsidiary or the acquisition of a foreign firm), MNCs must first estimate the taxes that they will incur due to the foreign project. This appendix provides a general background on some of the more important i...

International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 495 'Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions: Driving Mechanisms and Coastal Responses' commenced in 2004, three decades after the first project specifically concerned with sea levels began (Project 61: 1974-82). Over thirty years of co-ordinated international research have produced a detailed picture of the spatial variability inherent in sea level ...

In worldwide organizations, the share of collaborative work is increasing steadily and, in the current global economy, the collaborative work is international in nature. With the availability and increased use of information and communication technologies most of the international collaborative work is electronic-mediated. This exploratory empirical research is an attempt to identify some facto...

Background: Long after the implementation of the “Health System Transformation Project”, no comprehensive assessment of patient and nurse satisfaction rate has been carried out in Iran based on available databases. Thus, this review study was designed and performed to answer this question: “How is the evaluation of the Health System Transformation Project in nurse and patient satisfaction dimen...