Specialization and Geographic Concentration of East Java Manufacturing Industries

The concentration of spatial economic activities, especially in manufacturing industries has become an interesting phenomenon to be analyzed. In manufacturing industries, spatial concentration is determined by wages, transportation cost, market access, and externalities which relate with localization economies and urbanization economies. The existence of spatial concentration has a relation with industrial specialization which based on industrial structure on that region. The objective of this paper is to describe where the concentration of East Java manufacturing industries is, how the locational distribution of that industries is, and how the relation between the spatial concentration and specialization and industrial structure in East Java is. This paper is using Location Quotient, Herfindahl Index, Elison-Glaeser Index, Krugman regional specialization index and Krugman bilateral index to analyze the data..Specialization, Concentration, Manufacturing

Distances and Small Business Credit Constraints: the French case.

Deregulation and progress in information and communication technologies have increased the geographical expansion of banking structures and instruments. This makes banks operationally close to the borrowers. At the same time, banking industry consolidation have induced a geographical concentration of banking decision centers and strategic functions, leading to an increase of the functional distance that separates the decision center of a bank from its operational branches. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of these two trends on SME lending. Our findings on French data show that increased functional distance and operational proximity are positively associated with the investment-cash flow sensitivity, considered as a measure of financing constraints. These adverse effects are particularly acute for small firms.Operational proximity; Investment-cash flow sensitivity; Financing constraints; SME lending; Functional distance;

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 192

This bibliography lists 247 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1979

Towards Indicators for Assessing Land-Use Change in Planning: Case Study of the Peri-Urban Zone of Thessaloniki.

Expanding urban areas face growing land use conflicts particularly in the peri-urban zone, which is defined as a zone outside the city, occupied both by ‘classical’ rural land uses, and construction of road infrastructure and commercial shopping centers, which result as rapid changes. These changes of the peri-urban zone lead to complex patterns of land uses as evidenced in terms of the intensity and structure. To the extent that modern societies need to understand such patterns in order to formulate appropriate guidance policies, it is interesting to develop a relevant framework of analysis. It is necessary to assess land-use change in order to assist urban planning and related decision-making. The proposed approach explores an analytical framework combining GIS and a system of PSI (pressure-state-impact) indicators aimed at the analysis of urban growth and land use change in the peri-urban zone of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece which is located in the Northern part of the country and has approximately one million inhabitants.

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 314)

This bibliography lists 139 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August, 1988

Bevásárlóközpontok sikerének kulcsa.A bevásárlóközpont alkotóelemei és stratégiai illeszkedésük = The Key of Success in Shopping Centers. Composing Elements of Shopping Centers and their Strategic Fit

Dissszertációm középpontjában a bevásárlóközpontok, a „fogyasztás katedrálisai” (Sikos és Hoffmann, 2004) állnak. Ezek, a modern értelemben vett kereskedelmi létesítmények, még alig 20-30 éves múltra tekintenek egész Közép-Kelet Európában. Ennek következtében eddig még nagyon kevés tudományos kutatás foglalkozott ezzel a témakörrel. Ezt az űrt próbálja meg valamelyest betölteni jelen értekezés. Ezen a területen közismert a gyakorlat húzóereje a tudományos kutatásokra nézve (Brown,1992), így cseppet sem meglepő a megérzésekre támaszkodó gyakorlat. Szerintem mégis érdemes törekedni ennek a folyamatnak a megfordítására. A 2008 szeptemberében elkezdődött gazdasági világválság hátterében meghúzódó pénzügyi és ingatlan ipari válság rámutatott ennek szükségességére. A disszertációban egymást váltják az eddigi kutatásokból és a gyakorlat tudományos jellegű személyes megfigyeléséből származó információk. Végül bemutatom az általános bevásárlóközpont modellt, mely az új TERMÉK paradigma felől közelítve, egy egységes elméleti keretbe próbálja foglalni a bemutatott tudományos kutatásokból származó és a saját megfigyeléseken alapuló eredményeket. Ennek az elméleti keretnek a helytállóságát tesztelem SEM (structural equation modelling) segítségével 75 többnyire Közép-Kelet Európai bevásárlóközpontból álló mintán. (...

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes

This bibliography lists 161 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in November, 1987

Geobase Information System Impacts on Space Image Formats

As Geobase Information Systems increase in number, size and complexity, the format compatability of satellite remote sensing data becomes increasingly more important. Because of the vast and continually increasing quantity of data available from remote sensing systems the utility of these data is increasingly dependent on the degree to which their formats facilitate, or hinder, their incorporation into Geobase Information Systems. To merge satellite data into a geobase system requires that they both have a compatible geographic referencing system. Greater acceptance of satellite data by the user community will be facilitated if the data are in a form which most readily corresponds to existing geobase data structures. The conference addressed a number of specific topics and made recommendations