Economics and business topic list of research papers
-
Supply Chain Optimization: Enhancing End-to-End Visibility
Abstract This paper describes the United Nations World Food Programme's (WFP) Supply Chain Management Dashboard (SCM-D), a tool that increases operational efficiencies and effectiveness by enhancing Supply Chain (SC) visibility. Each year WFP...
2016 / Beverley Sithole, Sergio Guedes Silva, Mirjana Kavelj -
Towards Infrastructure for Knowledge-based Decision Support in Clinical Practice
Abstract This article presents the results of a study aimed at a developing an approach to the design of information infrastructure of medical institutions that use knowledge-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS). As a source of knowledge,...
2016 / Ilya I. Syomov, Ekaterina V. Bologva, Sergey V. Kovalchuk, Alexey V. Krikunov, Olga M. Moiseeva, et al. -
Development of Optimization Model for River Dredging Management Using MCDA
Abstract The main purpose of this study is to develop an optimal river dredging management model by applying MCDA (Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis) technique specifically in Korea where river dredging research are scarce. This model supports the...
2016 / Anchul Jeong, Seongwon Kim, Minseok Kim, Kwansue Jung -
Manifestation of Archipelagic Culture: How significant is it within the Negeri Sembilan Malay Traditional Architecture
Abstract Interpreting quality of life for the future generations to a certain extent is inexorably influence by the knowledge of cultural and built heritage environment, signifying the people's way of life, their cultural identity. The qualitative...
2016 / Mawar Masri, Rodzyah Mohd Yunus, Mohamad Hanif Abdul Wahab, Shamsidar Ahmad -
Markov Switching Artificial Neural Networks for Modelling and Forecasting Volatility: An Application to Gold Market
Abstract The study analyses the family of regime switching GARCH neural network models, which allow the generalization of MS type RS-GARCH models to MS-GARCH-NN models by incorporating with neural network architectures. Proposed models differ in...
2016 / Melike Bildirici, Özgür Ersin -
Bone Tissue Engineering: 3D PCL-based Nanocomposite Scaffolds with Tailored Properties
Abstract In the field of reconstructive surgery, a great challenge is represented by bone injuries beyond the self-repair threshold. Autologous bone grafts may be considered the gold standard. Anyway, such approach is limited by...
2016 / Dante Ronca, Francesco Langella, Marianna Chierchia, Ugo D’Amora, Teresa Russo, et al. -
A Novel Solution to Define the Optimum Number and Location of New Wells to Improve Groundwater Level Map
Abstract Groundwater is one of the major sources of water. Maintenance and management of this vital resource is so important in arid and semi-arid region. Thus, reliable and accurate groundwater measurement is essential to introduce as a basic data...
2016 / Masoumeh Alsadat Hashemi Tameh, Hamed Mazandarani Zadeh, Peyman Daneshkar Arasteh -
The Power of Communities in Smart Urban Development
Abstract Concept of smart city highlights the community as an integral part of sustainable socio-economic urban development. By the example of medium-sized city Banska Bystrica in Slovakia, the paper investigates the structure, role and position of...
2016 / Kamila Borsekova, Anna Vanova, Katarina Vitalisova -
Volatility Forecast Based on the Hybrid Artificial Neural Network and GARCH-type Models
Abstract This study compares the forecast performance of volatilities between two types of hybrid ANN and GARCH-type models. The findings show that EGARCH-ANN model performs better than other models to forecast the volatilities of log-returns series ...
2016 / Xunfa Lu, Danfeng Que, Guangxi Cao -
SP-0601: Does lean management improve patient safety culture?2016 / P. Simons, R. Houben, H. Backes, P. Reijnders, M. Jacobs
-
Driving Forces of Entrepreneurship; an Experimental Approach
Abstract The experimental approach in whole economical science, despite of rising popularity, is highly uninvestigated. The obvious benefits of this kind of view are often overlook or substitute with more abstract mathematical way, sacrificing...
2016 / Petr Obergruber, Gabriela Hrubcova -
A robust optimization model for distribution and evacuation in the disaster response phase2016 / Meysam Fereiduni, Kamran Shahanaghi
-
Development of Corporate Performance Management in the Context of Customer Satisfaction Measurement
Abstract The paper presents the research results in the area of Net Promoter Score integration into the corporate performance measurement and management in the paradigm of the 21st century. Critical analysis and customer satisfaction and loyalty...
2016 / Lilia Dvořáková, Olga Faltejsková -
A New Antecedent of Career Commitment: Work to Family Positive Enhancement
Abstract The importance of intellectual capital as an element of human capital motivates organizations to search the elements of work - life balance that employees consider important. For this purpose, considering career management as one of the...
2016 / Isık Cicek, Tugba Karaboga, Yasin Sehitoglu -
Nasal high flow reduces hypercapnia by clearance of anatomical dead space in a COPD patient
Abstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with hypercapnia is associated with increased mortality. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) can lower hypercapnia and ventilator loads but is hampered by a low adherence rate leaving a majority of...
2016 / Kathrin Fricke, Stanislav Tatkov, Ulrike Domanski, Karl-Josef Franke, Georg Nilius, et al. -
A practice analysis of toxicology
Abstract In 2015, the American Board of Toxicology (ABT), with collaboration from the Society of Toxicology (SOT), in consultation with Professional Examination Service, performed a practice analysis study of the knowledge required for general...
2016 / Carol S. Wood, Christopher P. Weis, Carla M. Caro, Amy Roe -
The Motivation System in a Governmental Organization
Abstract The managers and management researchers believe that without constant commitment of the members of organizations, achieving the organizational objectives seems to be unattainable. Motivation is considered as a human mental characteristic...
2016 / Hooman Khoshnevis, Abbas Tahmasebi -
The New Model of Customer Segmentation in Postal Enterprises
Abstract Postal enterprises are trying to succeed in a very competitive market. At present there are multiple ways to achieve this. One may succeed by offering quality innovative products, competitive prices, quality services etc. Customer...
2016 / Peter Kolarovszki, Jiří Tengler, Margita Majerčáková -
Insights into the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases through empirical human contact networks2016 / Chunlin Huang, Xingwu Liu, Shiwei Sun, Shuai Cheng Li, Minghua Deng, et al.
-
Improving Road Asset Condition Monitoring
Abstract Road networks often carry more than 80% of a country's total passenger-km and over 50% of its freight ton-km according to the World Bank. Efficient maintenance of road networks is highly important. Road asset management, which is essential...
2016 / Stefania C. Radopoulou, Ioannis Brilakis