We study how the vertical industry structure affects investment in network quality and social welfare, with a focus on the prospective deployment of high-speed broadband access networks (the so-called NGA). We model pros and cons of vertical separation, namely, procompetitive effects and loss of some efficiencies of vertical integration, and distinguish functional separation from ownership sepa...

This survey is stratified random sampling among 425 students in Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (north east of Iran) in 2011 the questionnaire has been implemented in the research. The validity of the questionnaire for face validity and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient is used. In this study, social capital indexes like "social participation, social trust and networks of social rel...

Disembedding of social relations from a local context has often been pointed out as one of the main characteristics of contemporary social changes. Taking that as a starting point, this paper explored the role of neighborhood social relations in contemporary Croatian society. The analysis presented in this paper had two aims. The first aim was to get insight into structure of local social relat...

deep beams are type of beams which their behavior is different from conventional beams because of their particular type of geometry. in this paper, the retrofitting of these beams is considered and 10 deep beams are tested experimentally and discussed about retrofitting methods. experimental studies indicate that the use of cfrp bands in the direction perpendicular to diagonal cracks in compari...

In 2017, the Singaporean government unveiled Farm Transformation Map, a highly technology-driven initiative that intends to change its current, near-total dependence on imported food. The plan focuses prospect of high-productivity farming—in particular, integrated vertical, indoor, and intensive urban farming—as possible solution geopolitical uncertainty, intense urbanisation, environmental deg...