AbstractThe effects of temperature on corrosion resistance of Silver–Cobalt oxide and Titanium Dioxide (Ag/Co3O4/TiO2) nanocomposite coated AISI 1020 in a high-temperature environment was investigated. The Ag, Co3O4 and TiO2 nanoparticles were individually produced by m...

Risk management for investment guarantees with unit-linked contracts is very critical for the insurer. This paper proposes a framework to charge for guaranteed risk when the insurer reserves for the guaranteed risk. This framework can facilitate the calculation of risk ...

This article discusses the use of mortgage-backed securities and fixed-income derivatives analytics in order to model agency mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) holdings in more detail than standard equity market practice. The author shows that book value proje...

Abstract Objective To provide an update on economic related inequalities in caesarean section rates within countries. Design Secondary analysis of demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys. Setting 72 low and middle income countries with a su...

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and performance of public firms in Mexico, considering debt and the structure of the board of directors as contextual and institutional factors. This research seeks to explain the mixed results about the r...

Abstract This paper presents an experimentally validated steady-state heat transfer model of a shielded-fire, natural-draft biomass cookstove suitable for conceptual design of the small household cookstoves used in developing countries. The input variables for the model...

This article reports results of a longitudinal study of vocabulary breadth knowledge growth, vocabulary fluency development, and the relationship between the two. We administered two versions of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT; Nation 1983; Nation 1990; Schmitt et al. 2...

The objective of the article is to analyze the share and the amount of farm households in the regions of the North Western Federal District of Russia. The period chosen for the analysis makes from 2005 to 2019, excluding to year 2020 due to particular circumstances conn...

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) is a new way of public service financing in the world. In this structure, Government, private investors, and social enterprise cooperate together to solve social problems. The main service provider of SIBs is a social enterprise. This paper an...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the compliance level of Islamic banks with disclosure accounting standards in some Middle East and North African countries, and most importantly to analyse the factors associated with compliance. Design/methodology/...

This study analyzes the dynamic relationship between stock prices and stock fundamentals. We focus on the Euro Stoxx 50 index, a major eurozone stock index, and its dividend futures. From the observed prices of the dividend futures and Euribor (swap) rates, we calculate...

We introduce simulation models of stock exchange to explore which traders are successful and how their strategies influence to their wealth and probability of bankruptcy.

Purpose This paper begins with a challenge to explore the scope and dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Islamic banking and design a CSR disclosure index, which may gauge the level of CSR disclosure in Islamic banking. Design/methodology/approach I...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach based on the multifractal volatility method (MFV) to study the contagion effect between the U.S. and Chinese stock markets. From recent studies, which reveal that multifractal characteristics exist in both developed and ...

In this letter, a cross-layer cooperative routing algorithm is proposed for minimizing the collision probability subject to an end-to-end outage probability constraint. We develop a collision minimization algorithm by combining cooperative transmission, optimal power al...

The study extends the implications of Piketty’s celebrated literature from developed countries to the nexus between developed nations and African countries by building on responses from Rogoff (2014) & Stiglitz (2014), post Washington Consensus paradigms and underpinnin...

This paper investigates the implications of government borrowing for corporate financing and capital structure of the firms. In doing so, we explore the effects of government debt, macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on firm’s choice of financing and capital struct...

Scaling down beyond CMOS transistors requires the combination of new computing paradigms and novel devices. In this context, neuromorphic architecture is developed to achieve robust and ultra-low power computing systems. Memristive nanodevices are often associated with ...

We examine the valuation impact of bank-financed mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and the loan contracts used to finance M&A transactions, focusing on the difference between bank-dependent acquirers and other acquirers. We find that bank-financed deals have high...

This study aims to examine the IFRS compliance in Jordanian banks and its relation to stock prices. The impact of compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on stock prices in Jordanian banks is a rarely researched subject in accounting and finan...

In this essay, the author reflects in the first person on the history and development of philanthropy scholarship in the United States. The discourse is presented contrasting the political and social contexts of his country and internationally, along his forty years of ...

The present study aims to elucidate the main variables that increase the level of stress at the beginning of military conscription service using an artificial neural network (ANN)-based prediction model. Random sample data were obtained from one battalion of the Lithuan...

This study aimed to examine the effect of auditor tenure in artificial rotation on audit quality. Tenure shows the relationship between the audit firms and a client that is measured in years. Artificial rotation of auditor (audit firm) indicates a condition that, concep...

Sentimental Analysis is one of the most popular technique which is widely been used in every industry. Extraction of sentiments from user's comments is used in detecting the user view for a particular company. Sentimental Analysis can help in predicting the mood of peop...

Electricity access is vital for alleviating poverty, and reversing the past and current negative economic and social trends in developing countries. However, despite efforts undertaken so far, the technological accomplishments and so-called breakthroughs, as well as gl...

The academic and practitioner literature now includes numerous studies of the substantial issue date mispricing of structured products but there is no large scale study of the expost returns earned by US structured product investors. This paper augments the current lite...

To improve the operational efficiency of global optimization in engineering, Kriging model was established to simplify the mathematical model for calculations. Ducted coaxial-rotors aircraft was taken as an example and Fluent software was applied to the virtual prototyp...

With more businesses are running online, the scale of data centers is increasing dramatically. The task-scheduling operation with traditional heuristic algorithms is facing the challenges of uncertainty and complexity of the data center environment. It is urgent to use ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the contribution of BMPER promoter SNPs to the gene expression and intramuscular fat content in longissimus dorsi muscle. Firstly the promoter region of BMPER was comparatively scanned by direct sequencing with pool DNA of two groups...

This ERP study used electrophysiological technique to examine how individual differences in the speed of working memory updating influence the use of syntactic and semantic information during on-line sentence argument interpretation, and the time course of that working ...

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Purdue pharmacy students implemented a project incorporating electronic prescription entry in a rural HIV clinic pharmacy in Kitale, Kenya. Students evaluated the impact of electronic pharmacy inventory management as well as the effects on patient wait time for prescrip...

The effect of various wire electrical discharge machining process parameters such as pulse on time, pulse off time, pulse current and the wire drum speed on machined surface quality characteristics such as surface roughness and kerf width has been discussed. The experi...

The method to realize the communication between PC and SIEMENS S7-200 series PLC is introduced through MSComm ActiveX and RS-232 serial communication protocol under VB development environment, and it is explained that the application of this way in the control system of...

RESUMO O estudo buscou utilizar o modelo desenvolvido por Gokhale et al. (2015) para identificar existência de sobrerreação e vieses comportamentais no mercado de ações brasileiro e analisar seu desempenho como estratégia de investimentos na Bolsa de Valores, Mercadoria...

In developing countries, treatment of patients with bleeding disorders is inadequate or absent and the dramatic situation has not changed significantly during the past 20 to 30 years despite several initiatives set up by different national and international organization...

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of the Polish market for the development of the supply-side of controversial forms of tourism, based on the opinions and products offered by tour operators and retail travel agents. Analytical data were collected usi...

English Abstract: This paper studies the impact of cognitive abilities and social trust on stock market ownership decisions. We set up a theoretical framework based on the portfolio choice model and find that these two distinct channels not only contribute to lowering t...

Abstract Sogatella furcifera is a major rice pest that exhibits wing dimorphism. The methylation-sensitive representational difference analysis (MS-RDA) is widely used in plants and some animals to identify methylation differences in genomic DNA regions. However the met...

Childhood obesity is becoming an alarming global health problem. However, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in most developing countries remain unknown due to limited data. This study aimed at assessing the prevalence of childhood obesity and underweight among Ke...

Since the 1970s, fathers have experienced a new set of expectations for their role. Fathers are now expected to be more involved with the hands-on daily caregiving of their children. Perhaps because of these changing expectations, more men are choosing to be stay-at-hom...

This paper investigates the relationship between e-banking and commercial bank performance in Bangladesh. A five-year aggregate quarterly commercial bank data as provided by Payment System Department of Central Bank of Bangladesh was used in this study. A multiple regr...