The first aim of the study is to compare the intensity of participation in cultural activities among natives, first and second generation immigrants in Czech Republic. The second aim is to examine whether the participation in those activities improve the emotional and psychological well-being of...

For hundred years the future was occupying the persons. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Chinese and other great ancient cultures, but also the modern, as the English, Germans and the Americans and with the help of the development of technology and computers they...

In this project we aren't trying to make a criticism in the theory and the indications of Solow and Keynes. And so correctly as Keynes comments very equitably... "Moreover, the characteristics of special case, which the classic theory was accepting, happened to be not those of economy in which...

In this project we will analyse specific economic factors of O.U.T.A. (Organism of Urban and Transportations of Athens. O.U.T.A. is a legal person of private law and was established in according to the law 2175/1993, as a successor of O.U.T. (Organism of Urban and Transportations). O.U.T. was...

The significance of stability of P.C.I. (Price consumer index) is reported in the situation of economy in which the price consumer index does not present tendencies of important change so much to inflation, - as down, - deflation. This is also the aim of E.E. (European Union), to maintain in a...

In this paper we examine and present the methodology of feed-forward neural networks with error backpropagation algorithm and non-linear methods. We test some applications of time-series analysis in economics. The first part is consisted by applications following the traditional approach of...

This paper examines the efficiency of various approaches on the classification and prediction of economic expansion and recession periods in United Kingdom. Four approaches are applied. The first is discrete choice models using Logit and Probit regressions, while the second approach is a Markov...

This study explores the effects of air pollution on specific diseases. Moreover, this study explores the willingness to pay for improving the air quality in the UK. The estimates are based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and rely on variations in pollution level and health...

Ground-level ozone is an important pollutant regulated under the Clean Air Acts that affects respiratory morbidity, decreases lung function, and negatively affects those with existing respiratory conditions like asthma. This study examines the “Clean Air Works” program on ozone concentration...

This study examines the relationship between recycling rate of solid waste and air pollution in UK using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) considering various demographic, economic and regional factors. The findings support an inverted U-shaped curve between recycling rate and air...