This paper evaluates the effect of intellectual capital (IC) on firm financial performance in service sector an emerging country, Vietnam. research is dissimilar from earlier ones for following reasons: (i) this first study IC’s impact firms at different knowledge intensity levels, sizes, and ownerships Vietnam; (ii) it expresses empirical evidence details activities, particularly development, ...

With the advent of more and more small devices with networking capabilities, the interest in their secure self organisation has grown. These devices – smartlets as we named them – may have multiple transient ownerships and the resulting trust environment can become quite complex. Our paper takes a look at a fictious next generation casino and some necessary hardware as an illustration, and exam...

The paper explores rationales of the rise and expansion of small scale non-industrial private forestry. The historical aspects of the small scale of forests are also briefly reviewed. In particular, the paper seeks to explain the reason for the increasing number of nonindustrial private forest ownerships with smaller holding size or private forestland parcelization. The main arguments are that ...

We used spatial simulation models to evaluate how current and two alternative policies might affect potential biodiversity over 100 years in the Coast Ranges Physiographic Province of Oregon. This 2.3-million-ha province is characterized by a diversity of public and private forest owners, and a wide range of forest policy and management objectives. We evaluated habitat availability for seven fo...

The present investigation was carried out to assess the livelihood status of the fish farmers in Hamirkutsha and Kamarbari Unions of Bagmara upazilla under Rajshahi district during June to December 2006. Data were collected through the use of well structured questionnaire. Fifty farmers were included in this study who were directly involved in fish farming. Average pond size was 0.13 ha with si...