Impact assessment is a component of ecological policies assessment in Danube Delta and represents a preventive measure to make sure the some criteria are met based on which the designed ecological policy is accepted or not, such as: economic efficiency, equity, stimulative feature,...

This paper examines the long-run effects of growth on unemployment. It assumes that growth arises explicitly from the introduction of new technologies, which require labour re-allocation for their implementation. Using a variant of the search theory developed by Pissarides, the paper shows how...

Taiwanese domestic airline passenger loads have declined over the past decade, and the inauguration of the Taiwan high-speed rail service in 2007 has further intensified the competition facing the airlines. Gaining and retaining valuable passengers thus has become essential in maintaining...

Anxiety is also called “the dissease of the century” because it can be present in each and everyone of us. It is characterized by excesive fear and worries about events in daily life. It was defined by P. Janet as “the fear without reason”. The present paper rewiews the main resulf of a...

The dashboard is a way of framing, selecting, arranging and presenting of the indicators that allow for an overview of the general trends in the evolution kept under scrutiny. Depending on the objectives that it sets and monitors, an enterprise can build its own representation of the required...

This paper presents long-term analysis of wind speed data in terms of annual, seasonal and diurnal variations at Tindouf, which is situated on the south west region of Algeria. The wind speed data was collected over a period of 08years between 1976 and 1984. The study showed that the long-term...

The Florida Youth Tobacco Survey (FYTS) was administered in the spring of 2008 to 38,510 middle school students and 40,283 high school students in 744 public schools throughout the state. The survey response rate for middle schools was 79%, and the survey response rate for high schools was 73%....

This study investigates the role of industry level factors in determining merger activity in an emerging economy. The study uses information from India, which has witnessed acceleration in merger activity subsequent to recent economic reforms. Departing from the existing literature, we proxy...

This paper calculates the minimum required frequency between audits of a given type to meet prespecified accuracy goals for a given type of account. Both "100 percent," as well as sampling type audits are addressed. The effectiveness of a given audit type includes the mean and standard deviation...