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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clustering Balkan Countries Based on Competitiveness Factors: A Strategic Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Prior to directing their investments, strategy makers at national and firm level need to know  competitive advantages and disadvantages in a country or region. By bearing this need in mind,  this study aims to examine competitive factors in Balkan countries to develop a road map for  investors. To do this, we used World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitivenes Index” to  analyse the case of Balkan countries as a region to cluster and compare them based on Global  competitiveness factors. Analysis results pointed out that Balkan countries were clustered in two  groups and scored lower or medium level on almost all competitive factors as the region. Based  on these findings, authors suggested various strategic recommendations at micro and macro level.  Keywords: Cluster, Competitiveness, Strategic Management, Balkan Countries]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1372]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2250">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clustering Balkan Countries Based on Competitiveness Factors: A Strategic  Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Prior to directing their investments, strategy makers at national and firm level need to know  competitive advantages and disadvantages in a country or region. By bearing this need in  mind, this study aims to examine competitive factors in Balkan countries to develop a road  map for investors. To do this, we used World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitivenes  Index” to analyse the case of Balkan countries as a region to cluster and compare them based  on Global competitiveness factors. Analysis results pointed out that Balkan countries were  clustered in two groups and scored lower or medium level on almost all competitive factors  as the region. Based on these findings, authors suggested various strategic recommendations  at micro and macro level.  Keywords: Cluster, Competitiveness, Strategic Management, Balkan Countries]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1113]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2249">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Using Artificial Neural Networks To Forecast Gdp For Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is a system resembling biological neural systems and uses  working principles of human brain as a base. ANN can be applied in various fields for the  purposes of forecasting, classification, optimization, data binding and so on. ANN has been  frequently used in financial applications in recent years. In this study, ANN is used in  forecasting Gross Domestic Product of Turkey. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) refers to the  market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP  can be thought as the size of an economy and it is the foremost important measure of  macroeconomic performance of a country, a country’s health and standard of living.  Therefore, expectations about future GDP can be the primary determinant of investments,  employment, wages, profits and even stock market activities. With respect to its economic significance mentioned above, the purpose of this study is to forecast Gross Domestic Product  (GDP) for Turkey and to test the ability of ANN Method in forecasting GDP.  Keywords: Importance of Gross Domestic Product, Forecasting, Artificial Neural Networks.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1129]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Could government legalize illegal settlement by improving their energy efficiency?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In recent months we are faced with serious budget problems in Montenegro, the solution of  which, among other things is seen in reducing the number of employees in state  administration. On the other hand, the costs of living are significantly above the disposable  budget of households. Particular problem is the high cost of electricity, which recently resulted in the street protests of discontented citizens. On one hand we have a government that  alerts the lack of electricity, and on the other hand we have citizens that may hardly cover  these costs. In addition, Montenegro is dealing with a double-challenge of inefficient space  use (country features over 100,000 illegal homes, if distributed evenly implying that every  other family lives in an illegal home) and inefficient energy use (Montenegro needs on  average 8.5 times more energy per unit produced than an average EU country).]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1238]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2247">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Efficiency and Impact of Economic Sanctions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The purpose of this paper is to examine economic sanctions as a foreign policy instrument and  to give judgment to their efficiency and impact. Since WWI economic sanctions have been  used as a tool for preventing conflicts and signaling instrument of foreign policy. Their  efficiency and impact have been the main topics for many discussions. Since the War in  Yugoslavia in 1991, economic sanctions gained on their importance and usage. Two classical  examples of economic sanctions will be discussed in this paper: War in Yugoslavia and  sanctions against Iran. Economic sanctions appear to be unsuccessful in most cases and their  usual victims are innocent inhabitants.  Keywords: Economic sanctions, efficiency of economic sanctions, Yugoslavia, Iran.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1326]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2246">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Importance of Tissue Culture Techniques in Sustainablity of Endangerd plant Species]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Tissue culture techniques have profound importance in mass propagation of various  commercial crops in practice as in well known fruit tree rootstocks, a few vegetable and  especially ornamental plants as well as some undomesticated plant species. Herbaceous  species are somewhat easier to propagate compared to woody ones by tissue culture  techniques. These techniques have not affectively applied to native plant species due to  economical concerns although so many native plant species have been under threat and  therefore they have been facing with extinction in all over the world. Human interferences is  the main cause of the extinction of wild species especially in highly populated areas as it is  the case in Marmara, Aegean and Coastal Mediterranean regions of Turkey because of new  settlements, infrastructural works, overgrazing and uncontrolled collections. Thus, a big  number of wild plant species are disappearing every year. Tissue culture techniques have  merit value to propagate the endangered wild plant species to release the encountering  pressure on these plants  Keywords: Tissue culture, endangered species, sustainability]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1266]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2245">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Time delay feedback control of chaos in a hyper chaotic finance system]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In this paper, complex behavior of a four dimensional continuous autonomous hyperchaotic  finance system is investigated. Also, this paper discusses the control of four dimensional  continuous autonomous hyperchaotic finance system by using time delay feedback control  technique. Based on the property of the time delay feedback control, the controller is designed  and this controller is added to hyperchaotic finance system for achieving the control of the  system. As a result, the control of four dimensional continuous autonomous hyperchaotic  finance system is realized. To confirm the validity of the proposed method, numerical  simulations are presented graphically.  Keywords: Hyper chaotic finance system, chaos control, time delay feedback control]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1290]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2244">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Dynamics Of Modernizm: A Critical Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In recent decades, the modernism and modern socio-political analysis has been subjected to  criticism in many respects. The ideas of the global, post-modern and post-industrial societies  attempted to legimitize themselves over the criticism of the modern approach towards the  economic, social, political and philosophical parameters of modern version. Due to the fact  that the institutions, models, matrixes pertaining with the modern realm faded away one after  the other, challenging and confrontation with modernizm was popularized. Nevertheless,  many critical series of analysis remained as deficient, abortive and defective studies because  many researchers had not adequate information and awareness about the dynamics of the  modernism which was shaping the main character of modernism. Yet modernism just as the  other movements of thought was directly relevant, related and bound to the time and space  which produce them. In the light of this understanding, we attempted to elaborate the main  historical dymanics and the socio-political ground which the modernizm had been created.  We hope that this study demonstrates the intrinsic and essential trajectory which the modernism followed within the dark labyrinth of history in order to meet the expectations of  alternative models of societies as an harbinger.  Keywords: Modernism, modernisation, modern fallacy, social change, individualism,  Eurocentrism, colonialism, rationalism]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1138]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2243">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[GIS Integration And Evolution Into The Albanian System Education And Market]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper offers a general overview of GIS integration as a curricula and technology in the  Albanian Education System. Basically it presents the evolution history of this technology, the  development environment and the efforts of a closer approach to the state and private  institutions. A detailed analysis will be performed between the growing market needs in  Albania for GIS utilities and the handicap due to the lack of experts in geospatial technology.  Results of a questionnaire survey in the university areas will be presented, where students  expressed their approach to GIS technology. The need to build a complete chain of GIS  curricula beginning from secondary school level up to graduate and master programms is  necessary to be accomplished. Many problematic fields in Albania like flood management,  population census, transport, urbanization, pollution, turism, illegal constructions, professional  orientation, etc which are subjects of topic interest in many universitary courses require  the use of GIS utilities. In this article it is discussed the position of GIS in the university  system and the major efforts departments must carry out in increasing interaction between  each other followed by a substantial intervention of the proper government institutions to the  benefit of GIS development. “Albania in the age of internet” is the latest reform the  government is implementing, with the scope of informing young people mainly in rural areas  to develop ICT infrastructure basically in public schools and state offices, which will have a  powerful impact in GIS developing technology in Albania.  Keywords: Gis, education, university, technology, department, curricula]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1188]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2242">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The causal relationship between energy consumption and GDP in Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper attempts to investigate the short-run and long-run relationship and causality  between energy consumption and economic growth during 1960-2006 period for Turkey.  Johansen and Juselius cointegration method and vector error correction model (VECM) have  been employed to examine this issue. After finding cointegration among variables, a VECM is  estimated and the Granger causality tests were carried out based on a VECM. The results have  shown that there is no short-run causality in both energy consumption and GDP models. The  results also confirmed that there is unidirectional long-run causality among variables of  interest and the direction of long-run causality is running from per capita GDP to per capita  energy consumption. As a result, conservation hypothesis which postulates unidirectional  causality from economic growth to energy consumption is confirmed for Turkey. Taken  together, these empirical findings involve valuable information for policy makers.  Keywords: Energy consumption, Economic growth, Causality, Turkey JEL classification: C3, O4, Q43]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1309]]></dcterms:extent>
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