The concept paper for HDR 2001 starts thus: “New technologies – especially biotechnology and information/communication technology – are the driving forces of competition between nations and people in the global knowledge economy of the 21 century. Access to and a share in the financial returns from technology will be an important determinant of whether an individual or a country is a winner or ...

Technology entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth, though entrepreneurs must maintain cooperative ties with the owners of any technology they hope to bring to market. Existing studies show that fairness perceptions have a great influence on this cooperation, but no research investigates its precise mechanisms or dynamic patterns. This study explores the development of 17 ven...

Flood phenomenon is one of the catastrophic natural disasters which usually cause injuries and economic losses more than any weather phenomenon. Therefore evaluating flood economic losses is extremely important and it should be consider in socioeconomic development, spatial planning policies and flood control plans. Contrary to importance of this issue, available evaluating methods of flood eco...

The Economy of Iran faces many challenges and is predicted to have a negative growth of 1.3 percent, unemployment of above 13 percent, and a wild inflation rate of 27.2 percent in 2013. Various external conditions and bad economic planning have contributed to Iran’s current economic difficulties. To transform the Economy of Iran, the 5th Five-year Development Plan (FYDP) and the 20-year vi...

the effects of range management plans (rmp) on soil and vegetationcharacteristics were studied in eshtehard rangelands at alborz province. the parameters ofyield, canopy cover, range condition and trend, bulk density, organic matter (om%),nitrogen (n), phosphorous (p) and potassium (k) were estimated on soil samples in sitesof ghenzel cheshmeh as rmp and sanctum of rahmanyeh village. the data w...

A new model is presented for evaluating the performance of a Business Continuity Management System according to BS 25999. Performance is based fundamentally on the system’s Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans. Typically, the performance of these plans is inadequately evaluated using a number of specific exercises at various intervals and, in many cases, with a variety of targe...

We describe an approach to automatically generate a floor plan for the interior environment of a building using laser scan data. This floor plan is meant to accurately indicate the positions of walls within an area of interest in the building. The proposed algorithm separates the floors of a building scan, selects a representative sampling of wall scans for each floor, and triangulates these sa...

The LTPD plans for acceptance sampling which minimize the mean inspection cost per lot of the process average quality when the remainder of the rejected lots is inspected were originally designed by Dodge and Romig for the inspection by attributes. The sampling plans for the inspection by variables were then proposed and it has been shown that such plans are in many situations in practice more ...