Mobile devices are vertically integrated systems that are powerful, useful platforms, but unfortunately limit user choice and lock users and developers into a particular mobile ecosystem, such as iOS or Android. We present Chameleon, a multi-persona binary compatibility architecture that allows mobile device users to run applications built for different mobile ecosystems together on the same sm...

introduction cultural or heritage tourism is a tool of economic development that leads to economic growth by attracting visitors from outside the host community through historic and heritage attractions of destinations. this is a human heritage as cultural traditions of each society and is considered as cultural tourist attractions. hence, yazd is an ancient city with archaic culture and also r...

 “Flows” is related with the specialisation of that region to attract a certain group among those on which we focused our analysis (3 “cohorts” of migrants classified by age groups through a demographic model), traditional tourists disaggregated by international and domestic, and “unconventional tourists” (captured for the moment by the “Erasmus students” category). The classes derived from th...

this article strive to examine and explaine national sources of the foreign policy of the islamic republic of iran. cultural, historical, geographic, ideological, social, and economic variables, as societal sources, will lead to the continuation of some behaviours in iran’s foreign policy. the author argues that to better understand iran’s foreign policy, one must pay attention to the above var...

Using bank level data this paper examines how bank’s specific characteristics and the overall banking environment affect the profitability of commercial domestic and foreign banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001. The results indicate that profitability of both domestic and foreign banks is affected not only by bank’s specific characteristics but also by financial mark...

This paper analyzes the effect of foreign presence on the growth and survival of domestic firms. I separate the two opposing effects that foreign firms are expected to have on domestic firms: a negative “market stealing or crowding out” effect and a positive “technology spillover” effect. Unlike previous studies, however, which analyzed the spillover question by estimating firm production funct...