The article considers the spacing of education networks under the conditions of demographic shrinking and negative tendencies in populationdistribution. A successful restructuring of education institutions necessitates the creation of integrated education structures that should also include...

In recent years, internet based commerce has developed as a new paradigm. Many factors such as "at home delivery", easy ordering, and usually lower prices contributed to the success of the e-commerce. However, more recently, companies realized that one of the major factors in having a successful...

Sport policies aiming at increasing mass participation and club participation have stressed the importance of sport infrastructure. Previous research has mainly analyzed the influence of individual factors (age, income, etc.) on sport participation. Although a few studies have dealt with the...

This paper studies how commodity price movements have affected the local house prices in commodity-dependent economies, Australia and New Zealand. We build a geographically hierarchical empirical model and find that the commodity prices influence local house prices directly and also indirectly...

Wavelets have been successfully used for nonparametric function estimation, but for density and hazard functions, estimators must be nonnegative. In this paper, we develop a quasi-continuous nonnegative “wavelet” basis from Daubechies wavelets with good approximation properties. Using this...

This article presents a hierarchical location-allocation model that combines a maximum covering model and p-center models. The objective herein is to adapt the spatial distribution of supply to various levels of demand. The model resolution step relies both on the myopic and Lagrangian...