DNA information has the potential to generate value for each sector of the beef-cattle industry. The value distribution among sectors (breeding, commercial, feedlot, processing) will differ depending on marketing. The more descendants an animal produces, themore valuable each unit of genetic improvement becomes. Therefore, the value of using DNA testing to increase the accuracy of selection and...

the image of most iranian cities like mashhad as a metropolis indicates not only the contrast between old and new urban textures but also illustrates a new texture of not more than 50 years old whose design is disorganized and disordered. despite enjoying a detailed plan (1956-91), piroozi boulevard in rezashahr area with residential land use, low density and plots of over 500 m2 is really in a...

Recently Fisher-Vanden et al (2004) have used firm level data to estimate an energy intensity function for a large number of enterprises in China. This is the first study to use the regression approach to examining the relationships between fuel prices and fuel consumption in China. One of the major findings of the study is that firms are very responsive to relative fuel price changes. However,...

South Carolina is the nation’s second largest coastal resort state in terms of beach destination trips, superseded only by Florida. Its coastal resources and tourism industry are now undergoing tremendous coastal change due to tourism development and associated commercial and residential growth. As the negative elements of coastal change draw more public attention, and sustainable development b...

The paper starts from an insightful observation. That is, compared with residential property, the commercial property market has experienced a much milder cycle in the 2000s. This conclusion is well founded. First, compared with the 50 per cent to 75 per cent price drop in the residential market, commercial property prices declined by only 25 per cent from the 2007 peak. More importantly, price...

South Carolina is the nation's second largest coastal resort state in terms of beach destination trips, superseded only by Florida. Its coastal resources and tourism industry are now undergoing tremendous coastal change due to tourism development and associated commercial and residential growth. As the negative elements of coastal change draw more public attention, and sustainable development b...

this study estimates the residential property prices in tehran using hedonic price functions and spatial econometrics. the newly employed method is extending the analysis to the neighbourhood level (361 sectors) using the city's planning and gis tools. the results show that the spatial econometric model has higher identification than the simple econometric model. the distance between the c...