Money as a tool has all the dimensions of life. The meaning of money has been expanded so that its social dimensions can be used alone to analyze the economic situation and market of a society. In this study, we examine the semantic dimensions and meaning that students have of money. The research method is phenomenological research. Deep interviews were conducted of 21 sample students from Ferd...

Next generation networks and service providers are rapidly evolving in order to satisfy the demands of an increasing number of users. Nowadays, one of the most relevant research lines in the Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks realm is the use of procedures and mechanisms so as to provide intelligence to the network, with the main goal of optimizing its performance. Furthermore, mobile commu...

The contribution of this paper is a solution to the problem of allocating terminals to the appropriate access network in locations where an operator owns multiple access networks with overlapping coverage. This problem is destined to arise since the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) allows operators to efficiently manage multiple access networks under one core network. The underlying assumption of...

this article examines the basic assumption of rational expectations hypothesis on iran's economy from 1966 to 2003. this assumption suggests the neutrality or ineffectiveness of money policy on the development of real variables of production and employment. the results from estimation of production equation do not support the significant influence of unanticipated component of money growth...

Evidence exists that citizens’ demand for pay-to-use e-government services is highly price-elastic. But research on citizens’ adoption of e-government remains almost entirely pre-occupied with contexts wherein it is implicit that citizens would not face any monetary cost implications. The fact that Technology Acceptance model (TAM) and Perceived Characteristics of Innovating (PCI) do not factor...

Higher education in the United States has recently come under pressure from federal and state legislatures for failing to provide “value for money” because of an alleged lack of accountability and quality [U.S. Department of Education 2006]. This article will argue that, contrary to this view, institutes of higher learning have a rigorous quality assurance and accountability mechanism in place,...

© 1998 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK Paul R. Masson, Tamim Bayoumi, and Hossein Samiei are with the Research, Asia and Pacific, and European I departments, respectively, at the International Monetary Fund. The authors are grateful to colleagues and seminar participants at the World Bank, to Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and to David Weil for advice and commen...