Asset managing organisations utilize a variety of information systems to support the lifecycle of their assets. Traditionally, engineering enterprises take a deterministic approach to technology adoption. Evaluation of these systems, therefore, is an important aspect of managing IT investments in these organisations. Information systems evaluation is not an inert or stagnant activity, in fact i...

A significant problem in modern finance theory is how to price assets whose payoffs are outside the span of marketed assets. In practice, prices of assets are often assigned by using the Capital Asset Pricing Model. If the market portfolio is efficient, the price obtained this way is equal to the price of an asset whose payoff, viewed as a vector in a Hilbert space of random variables, is proje...

We find that past stock market variance forecasts excess stock market returns and that its predictive ability is greatly enhanced if the consumption-wealth ratio is also included in the forecasting equation. While the risk-return tradeoff is found negative if we use the latter as the instrumental variable for the conditional moments, the former suggests a positive one. We argue that the consump...

Cultural Heritage is known as an invaluable asset of human being, which portrays his achievements over centuries. The need for identification and preservation of cultural heritage is well understood and experts‟ attempt is to exploit any possible method to fulfill this aim. There are several published literatures and documents, which emphasize on the importance of the documentation of the cultu...

From the cultural-geographical perspective, the Qom plain is part of the cultural area of ​​the Central Plateau of Iran. Archaeologically, this region had many contacts with other areas of the Central Plateau such as the plains of Kāshān, Sāveh, Qazvin, and Rey. It also had relations with the synchronous centers in the northeast, northwest, central Zāgros, and Khuzestān plain. This is due to it...

Conventional images of tourist sites are trimmed off the unnecessary scenery from the whole scenery in the fixed viewing angle of the cinematographer’s intention. Therefore, when people visit a tourist destination, they are often disappointed about the gap between video image and actual sight. In order to eliminate this gap, we developed the Digital Dome Theatre System in 2009. It can project u...