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Deviance and Dissent.A Sociological Approach to Terrorism
Karoui, Hichem - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2010) 12, pp. 27-40
Since there is no definition of "terrorism" upon which all the world nations agree, this article proposes to approach the phenomenon on the basis of normative concepts widely recognized by social scientists. We think the issue would be more manageable if we use terms like "deviance" and...
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity - Determinants of regional development: Empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
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Is the World Heritage Just a Title for Tourism?
Gao, Yanyan; Su, Wei - 2021
. This paper contributes to the debate on the tourism impact of WH inscription with prefectural city data from China. The … difference-in-differences framework shows that WH inscription does not promote tourism in terms of tourism revenue and tourist … inscription on domestic tourism revenue in the developed eastern region, over time, and for World Cultural Heritages, caused by …
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Augmented reality and virtual reality-based technology in cultural tourism
Praničević, Daniela Garbin - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 7 (2021) 1, pp. 307-314
implementation in cultural tourism. Therefore, the paper explored and presented the following: (i) AR, and VR (AR/VR) based … technology concept in general, (ii) AR/VR technologies application in cultural tourism with an emphasis on their potential to … protect cultural heritage; (iii) the overview of AR/VR presence in cultural tourism in the 27 European Union countries (EU-27 …
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483986
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The role of 5G and IoT in smart cities
Car, Tomislav; Stifanich, Ljubica Pilepić; Kovačić, … - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 8 (2022) 1, pp. 377-389
Smart cities, one of the key application areas of 5G and IoT technologies, have at their core the goal of improving quality of life, creating collaborative solutions, and addressing resource constraints. Examples of some of the many services integrated into the network of a typical smart city...
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From Gibraltar through Levant and from Maghreb through the Southern Latin European Countries or about culture and management in the Mediterranean Sea Region
ISTOCESCU, Amedeo - In: Economia. Seria Management 13 (2010) 1, pp. 6-10
Bordering the southern coast of Europe, the eastern part of the Middle East and northern Africa, representing the most appropriate environment for the development of cultural, social and economic of the maritime regions, influencing decisively the culture and the entire life of the inhabitants...
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“The colossal and the well-ordered” or about culture and management in Switzerland
ISTOCESCU, Amedeo - In: Economia. Seria Management 13 (2010) 2, pp. 220-224
This paper tries to describe for students, for managers, for tourists, the complex experience that I had travelling, for the second time, in the summer of 2010, for a few weeks, in Switzerland, visiting friends, but also discovering again cities, towns, castles, museums, and even some small and...
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Language Rights - A Welfare-Economics Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
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