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Innovation forms the basis of economic growth and development. The “innovation system” concept started receiving more attention in literature since the 1980s, but very few studies have attempted to explain the functioning of such a system. Therefore, the need arose to develop a model for…

The paper has been intended to analyze trade of flowers in Romania. The study was focused on dynamics of the supplier countries for importations and destination countries for exportations. In order to design a framework for the international trade there have been assessed several indicators.…

As governments continue to provide businesses and citizens with new value-added e-services, citizens with disabilities are still being deprived from taking full advantage of these services. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which accessibility is taken into account in the design of Dubai…

Some mergers are so complex that antitrust authorities and courts are probably very tempted to decide by flipping a coin. In this paper I try to reconcile the economic approach to the evaluation of mergers with the one employed in other sciences to study the…

The aim of this article is to describe patterns of innovative behaviors among small firms in Malaysia.  The significant of this study lies in its attempt to differentiate innovation practices by small firms from the general innovation prescriptions which dominated by large firms.The underlying theoretical…

This study investigated the discrepancy between students’ service expectations and their perceptions of the service performance in a college of business in one of the public universities in Saudi Arabia. Using the SERVQUAL instrument, this study collected data from 166 students. To test the dimensionality…

This study aims to measure Malaysian undergraduate students’ ethical and materialistic values, and their relationships with the purchase intention of non-deceptive luxury counterfeit goods. 200 questionnaires were distributed physically and via online. Items were adapted from the Muncy-Vitell, Spears-Singh, and Belks scales to measure ethics,…

Intraosseous lymphomas are uncommon bone malignancy, and most of them present with bone pain. Herein, we describe a case of 64-year-old male who suffered from a painful swelling over his hip after a motor vehicle accident initially, and radiography showed femoral neck fracture. He received…

The Objective of this article is to investigate the mechanical properties and surface morphology of fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) wires. FRC (Optis) wire and a NiTi 0.016 in diameter were evaluated with a 3-point bending test on a universal testing machine at temperatures of 23±1oC and…

Periodontal disease (PD) is a complication of diabetes mellitus (or diabetes). Various proinflammatory cytokines are expressed in the saliva, gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and serum of diabetic patients with PD. The aim of this study was to review the proinflammatory cytokinees that are expressed in…