The aim of this paper is two folds: 1- To compare the level of technological advances in Iran's Automotive Industry with that of its competitors globally. 2- To compare the relative technological advances of Iran’s Auto Industry with other sectors of the Iranian economy. To measure the level of technological advances, we have used the Atlas Model of Technology. The results indicate that the lev...

Purpose-The research aims at evaluating the standardization/adaptation of international marketing strategy in Iran multinational companies (MNCs) based a model in which the impact of external environmental variables on the marketing mix internal variables (i.e. Product, Promotion, Price and Place) is considered, while in the previous researches no attempt was done to examine the interdepende...

Bangalore Nursing Home, Bangalore tr is the general medical practitioner that S,ects cases of tuberculosis in the earliest stages. iJle efficient working of the anti-tuberculosis campaign therefore depends on the general Medical practitioner. Isolation of cases being ?ne of the most important measures in the campaign especially in a city like Bangalore, ^ . facilities for isolation must be prov...

When a woman leaves her natural sphere, And without her sex’s modesty or fear Assays the part of man, She, in her weak attempts to rule, But makes herself a mark for ridicule, A laughing-stock and sham. Article of greatest use is to her then Something worn distinctively by men— A pair of pants will do. Thus she will plainly demonstrate That Nature made a great mistake In sexing such a shrew. — ...

Since Marshall (1890), it has been common for economists to model knowledge transfers as exogenous spillovers. However, there are many instances of knowledge transfers that are deliberate and reciprocal. This paper models these endogenous knowledge transfers and shows that endogenous knowledge barter is fundamentally different than exogenous spillovers. Holding city size fixed, we show that kno...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the determinants of city growth in Australia from 1981 to 1991. Our basic goal is to explain the population and labour force growth of a cross section of cities in the time period using variables representing the initial characteristics of cities. While we find that city growth is negatively correlated with initial size, government sector employment a...

Ultrafine particles (UFPs; diameter less than 100 nm) are ubiquitous in urban air, and an acknowledged risk to human health. Globally, the major source for urban outdoor UFP concentrations is motor traffic. Ongoing trends towards urbanisation and expansion of road traffic are anticipated to further increase population exposure to UFPs. Numerous experimental studies have characterised UFPs in in...