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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2008. Theme of the Year was "Connecting People with Disabilitie: ICT Opportunities for All …
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This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use … of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in … accessibility indicators and additional control variables. Results evidence the crucial role of the accessibility to commodities …
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A lack of commonly accepted benchmarks for hedge fund performance has permitted hedge fund managers to attribute to skill returns that may actually accrue from market risk factors and illiquidity. Recent innovations in hedge fund replication permits us to estimate the extent of this...
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Food is one of the most basic rights of every one living on this earth to get food. Food insecurity has very serious consequences in term of undermining people’s health, productivity and even their very survival. Sufficient food policy should not distract us from the need to find ways to...
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ABSTRACT The study analyzed the determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance services in Abia state …, Nigeria. Specifically the study assessed the economic variables influencing cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance …, the qualitative perception of farmers’ access and the empirical determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to …
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This study investigates whether accessibility shapes the attractiveness of residential land as predicted by theory. A … gravity-based accessibility indicator is employed that incorporates the effective distribution of employment as well as the … general urban attraction effect. After controlling for accessibility, we find a negative effect of urban attraction …
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Increased transportation demand creates new problems specialists, putting them in a position to find practical solutions to match. Analysis of the current structure of Romanian road transport process involves an analytical approach that exceed the basis of their decisions only experience and...
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heterogeneity in its social composition. To shed light on the relation between transport accessibility and social classes within the …
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: United Kingdom, United States of America. For the purpose of this paper “people living with disability” represent vulnerable … population groups. A choice founded on the universal characteristics of disability, including its complexity that requires a …
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