The relationship between democracy and environment has always been controversial. Some scientists found that democracy had a positive impact on reducing environmental disruption. Other scholars claimed that democracy tends to accelerate environmental degradation. Ther are many studies focusing on main determinants of environmental degradation. More recently, democracy is considered to be one of...

We introduce an efficient downscaling methods with arbitrary downscaling factors for images that are transformed to DCT blocks as in the compression standard JPEG. Our hybrid approach combines the low complexity of DCT domain downscaling with the high image quality of B-spline based downscaling methods. A scalable parameter allows to adjust the trade-off between computational costs and image qu...

this paper analyses and compares the performances of business-to-business e-commerce data quality and service quality among the use of the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ models. rosettanet’s original partner interface processes use the ‘push’ model which suffers from data redundancy when the volume of business-to-business transaction increases. however, when the ‘pull’ model is used, although it reduces dat...

Given the importance of fixed costs exporting, we investigate how information and communication technologies (ICTs) relate to extensive intensive margin trade (the fraction products that are exported market share, respectively). We use a novel dataset on quantity quality ICTs, namely number subscriptions (per capita) average (bandwidth). To test this relationship, an augmented Gravity Model Tra...

The software architecture has been identified as an important part of a software system. Further, the software architecture impacts the quality attributes of a system, e.g., performance and maintainability. Therefore, methods for evaluating the quality attributes of software architectures are important. In this paper, we present a survey of software architecture evaluation methods. We focus on ...

The time, quality, and cost are three important but contradictive objectives in a building construction project. It is a tough challenge for project managers to optimize them since they are different parameters. This paper presents a time-cost-quality optimization model that enables managers to optimize multiobjectives. The model is from the project breakdown structure method where task resourc...