In this article we present the results of the project called “Using of ICT and new generation networks platform in education”, which were carried out within the state program of research and development at the University of Zilina in cooperation with five another Slovak universities. The main goal of the project was to support the complex and effective ICT utilisation in education by means of t...

the main purpose followed in this study was to identify and analyze the mechanisms of nanotechnology development in iranian agricultural sector. the research method was an analytical- explanatory one. the statistical population of the study consisted of researchers of national agricultural research institutions/ centers (n= 170). according to morgan& krejcie table, 120 persons were selected thr...

This study is related to an Islamic project financing with a major focus on investigating the role of Islamic finance in financing infrastructural development projects (toll roads, power plants, airports, and plants, as well as natural resource exploitation projects, such as hydroelectric dams, mining projects, oil and gas assets, and paper mills), especially in the context of Pakistan. Infrast...

infrastructure plays an important role in the process of economic development. access to such infrastructures as safe piped drinking water, educational and health services, electrification and efficient transport system enhance human welfare. the main objective of this study is to determine the contribution of the main types of infrastructure investments to reduction of poverty and more balance...

this study aims at identifying the suitable areas for ecotourism using geographic information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) in experimental and educational kheyroud forest, nowshar, mazandaran province. the evaluation process was conducted based on three groups including ecological, infrastructural, and socio-economic criteria. then, the indicators of each main groups were...

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

The problem of security and dependability, or generically speaking, resilience [1] of Internet-oriented infrastructure systems, such as web server compounds, is reasonably well understood. Although it is not completely mastered (for example, denial of service is still a research subject), it is receiving adequate attention. However, such is not the case with the problem of resilience of critica...