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Managerial perspective on regional marketing activities of destination management organizations (DMOs)
(Tourism Analysis, 2009)
Destination management is an important competitive marketing method for global tourism destinations. Especially, when cooperated with image and brand management, it helps destinations to stand out from today's severe crowd ...
Islamic banking: a study of customer satisfaction and preferences in non-Islamic countries
(International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2009)
The analysis of their responses revealed a certain degree of satisfaction of many of the Islamic bank’s facilities and products. The respondents expressed their dissatisfaction with some of the Islamic bank’s services. ...
Development and future prospects of Islamic banking in Bangladesh
(International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2009)
The objective of this research is to provide a brief analysis of the performance of Islamic banks in Bangladesh. The Islamic banks in Bangladesh continued to show strong growth since its inception in 1983 to June 2007, ...
Satisfaction and loyalty of festival visitors
(Anatolia, 2009)
Public authorities and the private tourism sector at the destinations have long recognized the benefits of diversifying the portfolio of attractions with special events and festivals. Therefore, the special events and ...
How corporate social responsibility influences organizational commitment
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2009)
A growing number of studies have investigated the various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the literature. However, relatively few studies have considered its impacts on employees. The purpose of this ...
Wavelet-based systematic risk estimation an application on istanbul stock exchange
(International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009)
Systematic risk estimations are broadly used in investment analysis and portfolio management. The popular measure of systematic risk is the CAPM beta. The CAPM states that the expected return on an asset depends upon its ...
Event and network management: Application of EFQM for tourist destinations
(International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2009)
Given the importance of event organisations within a specific tourism destination, the main objective of this paper is to introduce the 2005 Universiade Summer Games held in Izmir, Turkey, as a case study, which will be ...
Exploring topology preservation of SOMs with a graph based visualization
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2008)
The Self-Organizing Map (SOM), which projects a (high-dimensional) data manifold onto a lower-dimensional (usually 2-d) rigid lattice, is a commonly used manifold learning algorithm. However, a postprocessing - that is ...
Formalizing epistemological constituents of emergence
(AISB 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence - Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Agent Cognitive Ability and Orders of Emergence, 2008)
Social action depends on the knowledge about all levels of emergent structure and this knowledge is not limited to but produced by the local binary interactions, thus requiring reflexivity and intentionality. This knowledge ...
Rate-visual-distortion optimized extraction with quality layers for scalable coding of stereo videos
(Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, 2008)
The Quality Layers concept is proposed and adopted in the JSVM in order to ensure an optimal adaptation in a ratedistortion sense [1]. In this paper it is extended to multiview case for scalable coding of stereo videos. ...