This paper examines some of the issues and controversies that arise when facilities with perceived noxious environmental, social, and economic effects (LULUs) locate in communities. It develops a taxonomy of LULU types and describes some potential economic and social effects of five specific kinds of LULUs, including: (1) interstate highways, (2) large dams, (3) medium and maximum security pris...

the environmental degradation increase during recent years, has proposed the investigation of economic activities and environmental indicators relation. mostly a unidirectional causality from economic activities to pollution is assumed. while the direction of causality between pollution and economic growth has specific policy implications, presumption of this direction may influence the nature ...

background: according to quality transformation of services during the time, the quality requirements and standards also change and recognition of these requirements and transformation process can assist in recognizing the quality dimensions of services. the aim of this research was to explain the transformation process, requirements and quality dimensions of services in hospitals.   methods: t...

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We present a model-based approach using two dimensions to propagate security restrictions: along the lifecycle and along the architectural levels. We apply security patterns to perform this propagation. We believe that this double propagation can be very effective for security and reliability. This approach can also facilitate the security analysis of the system and can be used to verify compli...

This paper will attempt to examine the economic success of Asia through an in-depth comparison of Asian capitalism to the traditional Western system. Through this examination we will look at the impact of cultural dimensions such Confucian dynamism, and examine the roles of international trade and global competitiveness as factors influencing economic growth.

while different elements including social, economic and cultural elements play a vital role in the emergence of behavioral patterns in humans, one cannot ignore the influence of the physical and spatial characteristics of built environment as a back ground for occurrence of anomic behavior on committing crimes. therefore, a series of approaches and theories such as “crime prevention through env...

SUMMARY IT security, national culture and enterprise resource planning systems that seem to be three distinctive concepts have been merged in this explorative study. Several factors have contributed to the conception of this converging thesis idea; (1) the growing importance of IT security within organizations, (2) the globalization trend that is " shrinking " the world and bringing varying nat...

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are the most prominent enabling network technology for Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS).VANETs provides many new exciting applications and opportunities albeit transportation safety and facilitation applications are their core drivers. Security of vehicular networks remains the most significant concern in VANETs deployment – because it is mandatory to a...