Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Dimensional Analysis of Psychosocial Barriers to Prevention of Early Childhood Caries Among Recent Immigrants2014 / A. Perez, M. Amin
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Designing Self-Energy Sufficient Buildings in India
Abstract The presented research work focuses on the utilization of alternative sources of renewable energy, mainly solar energy, for satisfying the energy demand in buildings. One such possibility is through Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV)...
2015 / Ram Joshi, Maharshi Pathak, Anupam K. Singh -
Access of Wheelchair Users in Sportive Mega Events: The Case of Confederation Cup
Abstract This article aims to evaluate the Access conditions for wheelchair users in sporting mega-events. It will show the characterization of some attributes related with the walk, as the variables that express them, showing the studied group...
2014 / Lorena de Freitas Pereira, Mariana Silva de Albuquerque, Licínio da Silva Portugal -
How Actors of Local Society (Community) Influence the Development of Decentralized General Education, and their Attitude to it.
Abstract One of the most urgent problems is to find ways to involve local society in the development of general education in municipalities. One of the solutions is to increase the influence of local society on the decision-making processes of...
2014 / Vairis Ļaudams -
Unit root modeling for trending stock market series
Abstract In this paper, we examine how the unit root for stock market series should be modeled. We employ the Narayan and Liu (2015) trend GARCH-based unit root and its variants in order to more carefully capture the inherent statistical behavior of ...
2016 / Afees A. Salisu, Umar B. Ndako, Tirimisiyu F. Oloko, Lateef O. Akanni -
The Scalpel or the Shotgun? A Study of Strategies for Boosting New Technology Adoption in Social Network Environments
Abstract We address the challenge of selecting influential individuals for the marketing of a new product in a social network; we imagine a business attempting to sell a new technology and compare three strategies for selecting seed adopters of the...
2014 / Peter Ludlow, Babak Heydari -
Welfare Effects of Foreign Aids Policy Coordination among Asymmetric Donor Countries
Abstract This paper investigates the optimal policy for foreign economic aids and welfare effects foreign aids policy coordination between asymmetric donor countries in terms of income level. When donor countries are altruistic with higher welfare...
2015 / Daye Kwon, Young-Han Kim -
The Specificity of the Problems of Assessing the Financial Condition of Russian Companies
Abstract The article reflects the actual and specific Russian problems of assessing the financial condition of companies. The methodology for assessing the financial condition in the Russian textbooks is strongly fragmented, requires updating and...
2015 / Anton Grechenyuk, Olga Grechenyuk, Yulia Polozhentseva -
Pre-deployment Alcohol Misuse Among Shipboard Active-Duty U.S. Military Personnel
Introduction The burden of alcohol misuse is unknown among shipboard U.S. Navy and Marine Corps military personnel immediately prior to deployment and may be elevated. Methods ...
2016 / Judith Harbertson, Braden R. Hale, Eren Y. Watkins, Nelson L. Michael, Paul T. Scott -
Improving access to life-saving medicines through mobile community health supply chain management2015 / S. Hodsdon, R. Luk
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Three-Dimensional Morphometry of Single Endothelial Cells with Substrate Stretching and Image-Based Finite Element Modeling2009 / Hiroshi Yamada, Norihide Mouri, Shinji Nobuhara
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Health information priorities for more effective implementation and monitoring of non-communicable disease programs in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from the Pacific2015 / Hebe N. Gouda, Nicola C. Richards, Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita, Alan D. Lopez
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Forecasting European thermal coal spot prices
Abstract This paper presents a one-year forecast of European thermal coal spot prices by means of time series analysis, using data from IHS McCloskey NW Europe Steam Coal marker (MCIS). The main purpose was to achieve a good fit for the data using a ...
2016 / Alicja Krzemień, Pedro Riesgo Fernández, Ana Suárez Sánchez, Fernando Sánchez Lasheras -
The Microeconomic Impact on Growth of SMEs When the Access to Finance Widens: Evidence from Internet & High-tech Industry
Abstract The paper studies the impact on growth of SMEs in Europe when the access to finance increases, and the respective correlation between credit evaluation and accounting ratios. The research supporting the findings involved a sample of 1327...
2016 / David F. Moreira -
A Context-based Approach to Robot-human Interaction
Abstract CARIL (Context-Augmented Robotic Interaction Layer) is a human-robot interaction system that leverages cognitive representations of shared context as a basis for a fundamentally new approach to human-robotic interaction. CARIL gives a robot ...
2015 / Wayne Zachary, Matthew Johnson, R. Hoffman, Travis Thomas, Andrew Rosoff, et al. -
PUBLIC ATTITUDES, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRINKING AND DRIVING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Injury is the ninth most common cause of premature death worldwide and the third most common cause of years lived with disability. Many early deaths are related to motor vehicle crashes (MVC's): each year, MVC's kill 1.2 million people (3,242 deaths/day) and...
2014 / E. DESAPRIYA, I. PIKE, S. BABUL -
Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO2 Mitigation in Residential Sector: Comparison between Indonesia and Thailand
Abstract This paper presents energy efficiency improvement and CO2 mitigation in the residential sector between Indonesia and Thailand. The Long-range Energy Alternative Planning (LEAP) model was used to analyze future energy demand and CO2...
2015 / Tri Vicca Kusumadewi, Bundit Limmeechokchai -
Calibration of the Crack Initiation Model in HDM 4 on the Highways and Primary Urban Streets Network in Macedonia
Abstract The World Bank HDM4 model has been developed on the basis of the researches carried out in Brazil and in South Africa. Those researches lead to the derivation of models regarding almost all types of damage which can occur on the roads, but...
2015 / Slobodan Ognjenovic, Zoran Krakutovski, Nikolai Vatin -
The Population Health Model (POHEM): an overview of rationale, methods and applications2015 / Deirdre A. Hennessy, William M. Flanagan, Peter Tanuseputro, Carol Bennett, Meltem Tuna, et al.
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Optimizing the Level of Well-being in Personal Development Groups in Integrative Therapy
Abstract This study had the objective to demonstrate whether integrative therapy sessions lead to improved levels of well being and quality of life. Ryff's well being scale and a Quality of life scale, were completed by 26 participants, divided into ...
2015 / Gina Radulescu Chiriac