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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Banks And Sustainable Development]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper focuses on the role of the banks in supporting sustainable development.  Its objective is to examine recent trends in banking and sustainable development, as well as  to assess the implementation and application of the sustainable development policies adopted  by the banks in the banking sector in Republic of Macedonia.  For that purpose it is made a comprehensive analysis on the trends of “sustainable finance”,  as well as research on the practices in the Macedonian banking sector in supporting  sustainable society.  Namely, at the beginning of the 21st century, the banks in the industrial world have become  complex financial organizations that offer a wide variety of services to international markets  and control billions of dollars in cash and assets. Supported by the latest technology, banks  are working to identify new business niches, to develop customized services, to implement innovative strategies and to capture new market opportunities. By means of their financing  policy, banks can then take specific measures to contribute to sustainable entrepreneurship.  As the analysis indicates, with few exceptions bank policies in the West Balkans are lagging  significantly behind relevant international standards and best practices.  Until recently, most Macedonian banks did not consider environmental and social concerns  to be particularly relevant to their operations.  Today, however, the integration of sustainability into the banking sector of Macedonia has  taken two key directions:  Support the environmental and social responsibility through financial contribution in  environmental initiatives and socially responsible initiatives  Integration of environmental and other sustainable development criteria into lending and  investment strategy of the banks  Therefore, the paper reviews the environmental and social policies of the selected big and  medium sized banks in Macedonia, as well as policy and the practices if the specialized  promotion bank-Macedonian Bank for Development Promotion.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1283]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Corporate Environmental Reporting: Approaches And Challenges]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Sustainable development issue have become increasingly important to a range of stakeholders  and attention has focused on the environmental impacts of corporate activities. Within this  context, investors and other stakeholders demand for reliable and accurate information  regarding environmental performance. Thus sustainable or environmental reporting has arisen  as a challenging and attractive growth area for accounting professionals (Bell and Lehman  1999). One of the most challenging issue in environmental reporting is how and what  corporations should report to meet demands of various stakeholders.  Reporting about environmental issues may embrace information both in traditional financial  reports and in any other reports. For environmental reporting, guidelines have been published  by various parties since the beginning of the nineties (IIIEE Report 2002). Considerable debate has taken place among the international bodies on the recognition, classification and  quantification of environmentally significant information. A number of recommendations  were put forward in the 1990s by standardization and Professional bodies. Yet, there are  considerable contradictions among these recommendations leaving management a large  element of discretion when deciding which issues to recognize, how to measure these and  what to disclose about environmental activities (Schalteger and Burrit 2000).  The aim of this study is to present approaches and guidelines of corporate environmental  reporting (CER) in an international context. For this purpose development of CER is  presented which is then followed by approaches to environmental reporting such as the Global  Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting framework, initiatives of Standard setters and some  governmental regulations.  Keywords: Corporate Environmental Reporting, Sustainable Accounting, Sustainable  Reporting, Environmental Reporting Guidelines.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1304]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Removel Of Chromium (Vi) From Leather Industry Waste Water By Adsorbtion  Methot]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an event that causes deleterious changes in the physical,  chemical or biological properties of air, water, soil or nutrients, which in turn negatively  affects humans&#039; or other living organisms&#039; health, living or activities (1).  Development of industry and rapid population growth brought along pollution and  consequently pollution of water sources. Today, the heavy metals present in drinking and  utility waters are amount the most serious pollutions and pose a great threat for public health.  Water used in industry is one of the sources of water pollution. As mentioned earlier, heavy  metals have a respectively more important place in water pollution. Heavy metal pollution is  caused by the liquid wastes of many industries such as metal coating, mining, tanning,  chlorine-alkali, radiator production, melting, battery production and alloy industries. The facts  that water is indispensable for life, and that it is used constantly in all areas of life set forth the  importance of preserving water sources and the necessary level of water quality for drinking  and using. All kinds of substances that may be in water is harmful to health over a certain  concentration. Due to this reason, the pollutants in water have to be removed.  Examining the studies in the literature concerning the removal of Cr(VI) ions from waste  waters shows that the Cr(VI) ion defoliates plants and trees and reduces yield particularly  when the waters of the streams it is discharged to is used for agricultural irrigation, reduces  meat and milk yield when used in breeding, and causes allergic reaction upon contacting  humans. It is also seen from the literature that, in addition to the chemical methods, also  factory wastes (sunflower meal, bagasse, glaze waste, gypsum waste, marble powder, fly ash,  etc.) that are more economical and natural resources (marl, cinder, red loam, etc) are used for  removing Cr(VI) ion, which is classified as a heavy metal, from water and successful results  are obtained from these methods. Our purpose in this study is to plan the removal of the heavy  metals, 90% of which are used in the leather industry and oxidized to Cr(VI) ion causing  pollution in the Menderes river, Nif stream and particularly Gediz river in our region, by  means of the absorbents that can be obtained economically and in a convenient way by  utilizing the wastes generated in the factories of the same region and natural resources.  It is intended to determine the optimum conditions for absorbing chromium from leather  waste water with the use of gypsum waste, which can be obtained in a highly economical  way and the way of utilization is being sought as the abundant waste of the Serel ceramic  factory.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1263]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2341">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Relationship Between Tax Revenue And Economic Growth In Turkey: The Period  Of 1975-2011]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In the study, the relationship between tax revenues and economic growth for the Turkish  economy has been examined in the period of 1975-2011. Johansen Juselious cointegration test and Granger causality test have been used in order to find long term and short term  relationship, respectively. Impulse-response function and variance decomposition analysis  have been applied via VAR model. The findings have shown that there is interaction between  tax revenue types and the economic growth in the long term and is not such an interaction in  the short term. The effect of the shock given to indirect tax revenue to economic growth rate  has decline; the response of growth rate to shock given to direct tax revenue has been  tendency to rise up towards the end of the period. In the variance decomposition method;  direct tax revenue is more effective than indirect one. But, the growth rate that is expressed by  GDP (gross domestic product) or other factors affecting growth rather than tax revenue has  been appeared affected itself.  Keywords: Direct tax, indirect tax, economic growth, granger causality test, co-integration  test, VAR]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1311]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Analysis of Turkey’s Sustainable Development Performance at Last Decade by  Applying Green Economy Indicators]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In recent years, sustainable development has become a worldwide discourse, driven by  international treaties global environmental organizations and bodies such as European Union,  OECD. Sustainable development is a concept to be analyzed aspects of economic, social,  environmental and institutional. With the advents of sustainable development, green  economic development has become one of the most important economic issues. Countries  which target economic, social and institutional development should not neglect  environmental development. Development of green economy is the best way of slowing the  negative ecological and environmental impact. Developing countries neglect the protection of  the natural environment in the process of rapid industrialization. As a result of this situation,  natural resources rapidly run out and environmental quality begins to deteriorate. These  negative results return a significant cost to society. In this study, Turkey economy which has  averagely 5.5% economic growth in the last 10 years will be analyzed in terms of green  economy indicators. Turkey is a highly suitable ecological condition for crop production,  animal husbandry, fisheries and forestry activities because of its geographical position. The  basic components of ecological conditions are climate, highly variable the shape of the earth, water, can be made large agricultural land, forest and meadow and pasture, as well as Turkey  has also other natural resources. It is known as source of metals and solar and winds are ones  of the most energy resources for Turkey. Turkey which one of the fastest growing economies  in recent years can be analyzed in terms of some data how efficient uses natural resources. In  this study, Turkey economy will be analyzed in terms of ecological footprint index and which  sources energy produced. In 2007, ecological footprint index is 2.7 global hectares and in  2002 it was 2.0. Turkey has increasing ecological deficit day by day. Ecological deficit is 1.4  global hectares in 2007. In 2000-2010, energy use per capita has increased parallel to  economic growth. According to energy data, Turkey foreign energy dependency has  increased in last decade. In addition, share of renewable sources in total electricity production  hasn’t changed significantly. The foregoing findings indicate that Turkey currently belongs to  an economic development pattern based on high resource consumption. The economic  development is mainly established on the exploitation and utilization of nonrenewable  resources. Therefore, Turkey should change the development pattern, regulate the industrial  structure, promote the utilization rate of resources, develop green pollution-free products, and  enhance the sustainable development of ecological economic system.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1351]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Indoor Air Quality Of Some Social Areas In Konya City Center, Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Indoor activities, building characteristics and outdoor climatic conditions have all affected  indoor environment air quality. Some peoples, especially young and unemployed persons  spend on about 90 % of their times indoor environment. Indoor air quality has direct effect on  human health. One of the most important parameter for indoor air quality is particulate matter  (PM2.5). Therefore, determination of personal exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) in these  areas especially in café is predicted to be key role. Long exposure to particulate matters may  lead to numerous diseases.  In this study, particulate matter was determined in different social areas at the morning and  evening for 30-sec. intervals during 15 minutes. Study area is heavily urbanized by a lot of  buildings and also surrounded by roads with intensive traffic circulation. It was concluded from this study that some parameters such as ventilation, people circulation, ceiling height,  construction shape and floor level have affected the measured concentration of particulate  matter. The analyses have evaluated by personal Particle Meter equipment. Different  conditions of the cafes for the PM values are also evaluated. Maximum and minimum PM2.5  concentrations were obtained as 3.485 μg/m3 for a Hubble-Bubble Cafe and 23 μg/m3 for a  Book Store. Numbers of obtained data were found to be higher than the EPA‘s standards for  indoor environment. EPA established that PM concentration should be lower than 20 g/m3  for indoors. Turkey has only outdoor air quality limitations for PM10 which is about 150  μg/m3 for long exposure and 300 μg/m3 for short exposure  Keywords: indoor air quality, particulate matter, human health.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1272]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect Of Water Temperature On Spawning Out Of Season In Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus Mykiss]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Salmonid culture is a production sector with widespread throughout the world. Different  stocks of rainbow trout spawn in certain months of the year in hatcheries. This seasonality of  spawning imposes considerable constraints on trout farming because the consequent  restrictions on the supply of eggs and fry make it difficult for on-growing farm to maintain a  continuity of production of table-size fish throughout the year. Hatcheries should artificially  control the spawning time of their broodfish so that batches of eggs and fry might be  produced all year round. The modification of spawning time are possible using manipulation  of photoperiod. This series of studies were carried out in order to identify the effects of  varying water temperature on the ovulation of rainbow trout be exposed to photoperiodic  manipulation. This study was carried out in two different facilities. In the first facility, the  photoperiod regime was only consisted of constant short days (LD 6:18). The water  temperature had been changed between 7.5 and 15 °C during the the experiment in this  facility. In the second facility, it had been changed between 11 – 25.5 °C. The broodstock was  seperated into two different group. These photoperioded regims consist of constant short  days(LD 6:18) and altered photoperiod (LD 18:6 from February until May, then LD 12:12  from May until June, then LD 6:18 from June until November) which are acted to advanced  spawning. In both experiments, photoperiod regimes changed the maturation time regardless  of water temperature. However, when the water temperature is high, modulating effects of the  temperature on the maturation and ovulation time were observed. When the spawning time  modified to June – August, ovary growth and egg survival rate had been reduced by the  temperature effect ( &gt;14 °C). It was found that the egg quality decreased when the water  temperature was 17 °C although the eggs could been removed from the fish. Based on the these results, the role of water temperature in determining spawning time should take into  account, especially in conjunction with photoperiodic manipulation.  Keywords: Photoperiod, Rainbow trout, water temperature, ovulation, egg]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1229]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feedback control of chaos in a hyperchaotic finance system]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Based on the mathematical model of a nonlinear finance chaotic system, the complicated  dynamical behavior of the model is further investigated. Firstly, the complicated dynamical  behaviors of the system are analyzed. Moreover, the feedback control of the nonlinear finance  chaotic system is presented. We settle the nonlinear finance chaotic system to equilibrium  point with only one controller.  Keywords: Hyper chaotic finance system, chaos control, feedback control]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1289]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Commercial Websites Evaluation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The paper presented roughly consists of three parts, as follows:  Finding a criteria to evaluate a commercial website  Selecting a website and applying criteria  Comments and improvement advice  First task was to find suitable criteria by which the site is to be evaluated; through extensive  research on the internet regarding web site criteria and business sites in general we have  found out what makes the business web such a powerful medium for approaching your  customers. The availability and growth of the Internet offers use the opportunity to find  information and data from all over the world. Internet resources, in particular World Wide  Web resources, continue to proliferate at an astonishing rate. This is especially true for  commercial web sites which as some experts state, grow at an astonishing rate of one per  every 3 seconds!  Keywords: e-business, website design, website evaluation criteria]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1194]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distrubution Of Human Capital: A Study On Turkish Regions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Firms’ location choice causes regional economic differences. The conventional view of  firms’ location relies on cost-related factors such as tax breaks and subsidies. Human capital  theory of regional development asserts that people are the motor force behind the regional  growth. According to proponents of the human capital theory, regional growth is driven by  endowments of highly educated and productive people instead of reducing costs of business  or low costs of resources. In a world in which people are highly mobile, human capital is not a  given endowment. Under the new regime of geography in which jobs follow labor instead of  labor force follows jobs, wherever intelligence clusters evolve, so too will wealth accumulate.  Firstly, Jacobs attracted attention to the ability of cities to attract creative people and thus spur  economic growth. To sustain innovation attracting and retaining human capital is believed a  crucial role. Firms want to reap the benefits from skilled labor pool.Places with greater  number of highly educated people grow faster and better able to attract more talent.  There are three linkages between human capital and regional growth. Firstly, concentration of  creative and highly educated people through accumulation of knowledge and productivity in  existing firms. Human capital enables both product and process innovations. Second  explanation is related to inter firm dynamics. Highly human capital endowed people rapidly  adapt new ideas and technologies; therefore industrial shift in these human capital endowed  regions is rather easier. Not only they succeed in existing mature firms, but also they start  new enterprises, thus contribute into economic activity. This linkage is called reinvention  view of human capital. Third explanation is about consumption patterns of educated people.  Human capital causes growth by spending effect. Since they have higher incomes, they spend  much on leisure activities like bars, restaurants and theatres. Their spending habits create  employment for the unskilled.  In this paper we will test the relationship between the human capital endowment of the  regions and determinants of its regional distribution. Job opportunities, regional amenities and  diversity can affect the distribution of human capital.  Keywords: Regional development, human capital, location choice]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1292]]></dcterms:extent>
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