EPRI ORDERING INFORMATION The North American power grid faces many challenges that it was not designed and engineered to handle. Congestion and atypical power flows threaten to overwhelm the system, while demand increases for higher reliability and—since September 11, 2001—better protection. The potential ramifications of grid failures have never been greater, as transport, communications, fina...

Abstract During the last 20 years, there has been an increased interest among academics and practitioners in area of business incubation. However, limited attention devoted to developing a comprehensive framework that can measure incubators' performances. Therefore, is urgent need for appropriate, robust useable performance framework. In this paper, we present using weighted fuzzy inference sys...

The core principles of Islam lay great emphasis on social justice, inclusion, and sharing of resources between the haves and the have nots. Islamic finance addresses the issue of “financial inclusion” or “access to finance” from two directions — one through promoting risk-sharing contracts that provide a viable alternative to conventional debt-based financing, and the other through specific ins...

D evelopment of social and economic infrastructure in every region is of the basic requirements of economic growth. Infrastructure stimulates economic activity, enhance the productivity of private sector’s inputs, improve economic performance and thus sustainable economic development, enhancing the social welfare and better income distribution. Since the different kind of infrastruct...

Information technology (m infrastructure investments are a major component of firm investment in information technology. Becausethese investlnents are frequentlymade in anticipation of business developments, their subsequent benefits can be difficult to track andquantify(Grossman and Packer 1989). Infrastructure investments are often viewed only from a cost perspective, as any gains com...

As complex organisms, modern cities monitor their financial health and longevity, like Olympic athletes and hospital patients. The banking system encircles and ensnares people, buildings and environments defining cities, credit rating some higher, no matter their quality of life, disaster mitigation, infrastructure buffers or exposures. This paper explores technologies for smart cities to use t...

We present a model with agency costs where heterogeneous firms raise finance through either bank loans or corporate bonds and where banks are more efficient than the market in resolving informational problems. We document some major long-run differences in corporate finance between the United States and the euro area, and show that our model can explain those differences based on information av...

Based on the Internet Finance development index developed by Peking University in investigating 31 provinces, we use social network analysis to investigate spatial correlation and influencing factors of China’s provinces. The research shows that provinces has significant characteristics a regional gradient. among their is moderate, more closely related, smooth, or weak. All gather form four pla...

Authors presented main aspects of cybersecurity in the current context global challenges terms password protection Wi-Fi network, hacking detection, external cyber threats, complex mechanisms IT systems, cyberattacks that are and widespread. The opinion is expressed one tendencies development Ukraine creation concept introduction technologies Smart Information Systems. Main results achieved sho...