Domestic innovations and technology imports play important roles in boosting relative demand for skilled labor force. These factors are in turn influenced by domestic R&D investments and international trade. Using a translog cost function, this paper studies the effect of technology imports and other factors including output level and physical capital stock on the shares of skilled labor force ...

qajar period is recognized as a time of significant changes in persian arts. perhaps the most obvious change was the influence of european arts especially on architecture, painting as well as pottery. however after safavid period as to several inside and outside factors, amongst them vast importation of porcelain wares, iran was faced with stagnation of pottery’s art but this doesn’t mean the a...

This paper focuses on Indo-Iranian merchandise trade for a period of 30 years from1980-81 to 2009-10. The study is based on econometric modeling comprising 3 versions of the RWM model and alternative forms and specification of regression functions. RWM model(s) evaluates the stationary nature of time series data relating to GNP, Exports, Imports and total merchandise Indo-Iranian trade. Dickey-...

.4cademic Departnment of Obstetrics and Gvnaecologi, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele U-niversity., North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7QB, UK; 'Department of Mathematics, Keele Univ ersit Staffordshire ST5 5BG, U-K: -Centre for Pathologi and Mfolecular Medicine, School of Postgraduate .Uedicine, Keele Unii ersiti,.orth Staffordshire Hospital. Stoke-on-Trent. ...

This paper studies the extent and variation in import price pass-through for U.S. outsourcing imports. Based on data from 4,676 outsourcing products imported between 1991 and 2000 an average pass-through rate of seventy-five percent is found. The data also show that outsourcing import prices are influenced by the prices chosen by competing import suppliers. Notably, both the rate of pass-throug...

The relationship between economic openness and welfare policies has become increasingly important to policy makers. While scholars have tended to examine conditions under which budgets for social welfare programs ebb and flow along with countries’ exposure to trade, they have overlooked how governments may compensate domestic labor by subsidizing their employers. To explicitly address the issue...

34 A Novel Cloud-Based Multi-Tenancy Architecture with Efficient Hybrid Authentication Mechanism for Enhanced Security and Resource Optimization Elhadj Benkhelifa, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Dayan Abishek Fernando, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Thomas Welsh, Faculty o...

Mereotopology is today regarded as a major tool for ontological analysis, and for many good reasons. There are, however, a number of open questions that call for an answer. Some of them are philosophical, others have direct import for applications, but all are crucial for a proper assessment of the strengths and limits of mereotopology. This paper is an attempt to put some order into this still...