time, cost and quality are considered as the main components in managing each project. previous researches have mainly focused on the time-cost trade-off problems. recently quality is considered as the most important factor in project�s success, which is influenced by time acceleration that is the less time is spent the more success is gained. in time-cost-quality trade-off problems, each act...

Reducing transaction costs by means of policy intervention could generate comparative advantages and contribute to the growth of international trade. Chinese government agencies have introduced a number of policies in support of rapidly growing cross-border e-commerce to promote China’s international trade. However, the previous literature has not empirically verified the precise effect of thes...

this study concerns with calculation of iran's agricultural bilateral trade costs and major influential factors in iran's bilateral trade with developed and developing countries. the main findings revealed that over the period 1995-2010 weighted average of agricultural trade cost with developing partners has declined by 44, and with developed partners has increased by 22 percent. this reduction...

Many solutions to cost-sensitive classification (and regression) rely on some or all of the following assumptions: we have complete knowledge about the cost context at training time, we can easily re-train whenever the cost context changes, and we have technique-specific methods (such as cost-sensitive decision trees) that can take advantage of that information. In this paper we address the pro...

This article analyses the conflict between trade values and other values ('trade and ... problems'), such as environmental protection, labour rights or free competition, as It Is addressed by the principal legal devices available to address such conflicts ('trade-off devices') In the dispute resolution context In the European Union, the GATT/World Trade Organization system and In the United Sta...

In common models of project time-cost trade-off, time value of money is not considered and often time-cost trade-off is performed without considering time value of money. In real world, pass of time causes decrease in money value. Therefore, taking into account the time value of money in time-cost trade-off problem makes this problem is becoming more and more realistic. In this paper, we study ...

in the case of hazardous materials management, selected routes for carrying hazardous materials (i.e.,hazmat) have significant effects on locating hazmat distribution centers. since, risk and cost are usuallyconsidered as two main attributes to determine the best routes, optimized locations are sequentially outlineddepending on selected routes. in the present paper, two different approaches of ...

the aim of this empirical study is to explore the trade-off model and pecking order model of capital structure. the investigation is performed using panel data procedures for a sample of 76 firms listed in tehran stock exchange during 2007-2010.the study employs ols regression model in examining the capital structure of firms in iran. the study employs variables reflecting differing theoretical...