Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Potential of Interactive Multimedia Learning Courseware Using Three Different Strategies in the Learning of Biology for Matriculation Students in Malaysia
Abstract This paper discusses the implementation of an Interactive Multimedia Learning Courseware (IMLC) in enhancing the learning of biology among Matriculation students in Malaysia. A qualitative method using unstructured interviews and...
2014 / Fazzlijan Mohamed Adnan Khan, Mona Masood -
A Model of the Instantaneous Interest Rate in Discrete Processes
Abstract The modeling of the term structure of interest rates is one of important topics for researches in financial economics. Here we consider a model of the instantaneous interest rate in discrete processes, which may be regarded as a discrete...
2013 / Naoyuki Ishimura, Takahiko Fujita, MasaAki Nakamura -
Adoption of Pervasive Intelligent Information Systems in Intensive Medicine
Abstract Intensive care units are critical environments where the decisions need to be performed promptly and accurately. In order to help decision makers, a Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support System (PIDSS) was developed. This PIDSS presents...
2014 / Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos, Álvaro Silva, Fernando Rua, António Abelha, et al. -
Evaluation of directly observed treatment short courses at a secondary health institution in Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwestern Nigeria
Abstract Objective To evaluate the success rate of tuberculosis intervention programme at a specialist hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria through a retrospective study as well as carry out physicochemical evaluation of anti-tuberculous...
2013 / Olajire A. Adegoke, Olalekan A. Orokotan -
Trade Credit, Future Earnings, and Stock Returns: A Self-Dealing Perspective
Abstract Chinese listed firms are characterized by a great magnitude of long-duration accounts receivable from controlling shareholders and their affiliates, and they often do not make bad debt allowances. On many occasions, these receivables are...
2013 / Jigao Zhu, Guohua Jiang -
An Analysis of Iraq's Pre-import Inspection, Testing & Certification Program: A’WOT Analysis
Abstract The Pre-import Inspection, Testing and Certification program became an important factor to get a market share in Iraq. Verification of Conformity (VoC) of products before shipment to Iraq was started in May 2011 by Iraqi government. The...
2013 / Özgür Özmen, Ahmet Demir, Miray Celepli -
Brazilian Technical Report on Higher Education and National Education Plans: Reflection Tools in Building an Inclusive Society
Abstract Brazilian Higher Educational Institutions have an important function in transforming the social reality of the people and the Brazilian National Education Plans accent this role in its goals. In this paper we will reflect on the role of the ...
2014 / Denise Candal -
Study Regarding the Cost Implications Arising from Changing the Volume of Activity
Abstract This paper will present a comparative study between two possible ways of human resources allocation within the organization, while analyzing the costs generated by these changes in order to support a short-term decision in the automotive...
2014 / Aurica Gaspar, Sorin-Ioan Maistor, Marian Liviu Mocan -
The Peculiarities of Starting the Entrepreneurship among People with Different Experiences of Entrepreneurial Activity
Abstract This study explores the specifics of starting the entrepreneurship and formation of entrepreneurial self-identity among people with different experiences of entrepreneurial activity. Starting the entrepreneurial activity of successful...
2013 / Yulia V. Smetanova -
A Safety Assessment of China's Crude Oil Import Based on G1 Method
Abstract Crude oil plays a pillar role in China's national economy. With the continuous growth of dependence on foreign oil, the security of crude oil supply has become the focus of attention in China. This paper analyzes the various factors that...
2013 / Lu Jing, Wang Yao -
The Impact of Teachers’ Communication Styles on Pupils’ Self- safety Throughout the Learning Process
Abstract Over the last decade, numerous research studies have revealed the multiple roles a teacher must implement: trainer, communicator, developer and shaper of students’ personalities, counsellor, and provider of secure learning environments for...
2013 / Roxana Urea -
Long-term Unemployment Spells and Exit States of Men in Romania and Hungary
Abstract This paper present first empirical analysis of long-term unemployment spells and exit states of Romanian and Hungarian men. We analyze the effect of various individual characteristics on men long-term unemployment spells and exit states...
2014 / Daniela-Emanuela Dănăcică, Raluca Mazilescu -
Insufficient Domestic Demand in China: An Exaggerated Story
Abstract In both the academic world and the policy circles, insufficient domestic demands in China are widely believed to aggravate global economic imbalance and set back China's efforts for a sustained economic growth. Such a notion, however, has...
2013 / Chen Shaofeng -
The Importance and Utility of the Sociometric Survey Method in Physical Education Research
Abstract Sociometry is a way of measuring relationships between people. Sociometric tests can discover, describe and evaluate social status and structure, and can measure the acceptance or rejection felt between sport groups. Subjects within a sport ...
2014 / Sopa Ioan Sabin, Sanislav Mihai, Pomohaci Marcel -
Measuring and Evaluation in Machine Science and Design Education, based Upon Diagnostic Research
Abstract The interests and expectations of the students at Ruse University, Bulgaria in the area of Machine Science and Design are important for the lecturers delivering those subjects. The problem statement is connected with the identification of...
2013 / Antoaneta Dobreva, Valentina Haralanova -
Ambidexterity and Firm Productivity Performance: The Mediating Effect of Organizational Learning Capacity
Abstract Ambidexterity is emphasized as provides high firm performance. Additionally, so many researcher found that organizational learning capacity affects ambidexterity and firm performance. Lastly, it is emphasized that organizational learning...
2013 / Hakan Kitapçi, Vural Çelik -
Neighborhood Center Design (Set of Cultural-social-leisure) in Order to Reduce the Social Pathology, a Case Study Shah – Hoseini Neighborhood, Bandar Abbas
Abstract Urbanization provides the citizen a specific way of life with relative welfare. However, regarding structure quality and life standard, all neighborhoods are not the same. These differences are usually as norms. Due to economic-social...
2014 / Hamidreza Amery Siyahuii, Neda Shahkaramipour -
Customer Education Revolution – A Managerial Approach
Abstract Today's market economy is being reshaped by the ones that are in control – the customers. A concept defining modern world – revolution - is a severely hard to understand inner-state of the consumer. Managers find themselves with the...
2014 / Monica Vrabiuta -
Parallel Aspects of Fluid-structure Interaction
Abstract This paper presents several parallelization aspects of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems in computational mechanics when using an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) scheme. The physical domain of the coupled problem is then solved ...
2013 / Eva Casoni, Guillaume Houzeaux, Mariano Vázquez