Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Study of smoking habit among soldiers in Cairo Security Forces Hospital
Abstract Background Smoking in Egypt is prevalent as 19 billion cigarettes are smoked annually in the country making it the largest market in the Arab world. In the past few years smoking in Egypt has reached an all-time high with...
2016 / Adel Mahmoud Khattab, Eman Badawy AbdelFattah, Asmaa Khairy Eldien Awad Abozahra -
Economic value added or earnings: What explains market value in Indian firms?
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the claim made by Stern Stewart & Company that economic value added is a better metric that traditional earning based measures in explaining market value. For better exposition, a sample...
2016 / Nufazil Altaf -
Healthy and productive workers: using intervention mapping to design a workplace health promotion and wellness program to improve presenteeism2016 / Carlo Ammendolia, Pierre Côté, Carol Cancelliere, J. David Cassidy, Jan Hartvigsen, et al.
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Innovative sources for funding of viral hepatitis prevention and treatment in low- and middle-income countries: a roundtable meeting report2016 / David FitzSimons, Greet Hendrickx, Johannes Hallauer, Heidi Larson, Daniel Lavanchy, et al.
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Analysis of the Job Satisfaction Index Problem by Using Fuzzy Inference
Abstract In this study we propose a fuzzy rule-based algorithm to evaluate job-satisfaction in an organization. We collected the effective factors/job facets of job satisfaction through interviews. Through analyzing the interview results we compose...
2016 / T. Saner, Latafat A. Gardashova, Rashad A. Allahverdiyev, Serife Z. Eyupoglu -
A new approach on seismic mortality estimations based on average population density2016 / Xiaoxin Zhu, Baiqing Sun, Zhanyong Jin
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Decomposition analysis of earnings inequality in rural India: 2004–20122016 / Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette
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Infodemiological data concerning silicosis in the USA in the period 2004–2010 correlating with real-world statistical data
Abstract This article reports data concerning silicosis-related web-activities using Google Trends (GT) capturing the Internet behavior in the USA for the period 2004–2010. GT-generated data were then compared with the most recent available...
2016 / Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Guglielmo Dini, Alessandra Toletone, Francesco Brigo, Paolo Durando -
Rivers and reciprocity: perceptions and policy on international watercourses2016 / Y. Zhong, F. Tian, H. Hu, D. Grey, M. Gilmont
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Asymmetric and Nonlinear Impact of Attribute-Level Performance on Overall Customer Satisfaction in the Context of Car Servicing of Four European Automotive Brands in Slovenia2012 / Slavko Ažman, Boštjan Gomišček
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Optimal fatigue analysis of structures during complex loadings2016 / Habib Karaouni, Joseph Zarka
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High Level Robot Programming Using Body and Hand Gestures
Abstract Robot programming software tools are expected to be more intuitive and user friendly. This paper proposes a method for simplifying industrial robot programming using visual sensors detecting the human motions. A vocabulary of body and hand...
2016 / Panagiota Tsarouchi, Athanasios Athanasatos, Sotiris Makris, Xenofon Chatzigeorgiou, George Chryssolouris -
Global budget payment system helps to reduce outpatient medical expenditure of hypertension in China2016 / Yi Huang, Yan Liu, Xingyi Yang, Jing Li, Pengqian Fang
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Adding Stiffness to the Foot Modulates Soleus Force-Velocity Behaviour during Human Walking2016 / Kota Z. Takahashi, Michael T. Gross, Herman van Werkhoven, Stephen J. Piazza, Gregory S. Sawicki
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R&D Activities in Oligopoly and Social Welfare2015 / Jacek Prokop, Bartłomiej Wiśnicki
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Exploring key factors in online shopping with a hybrid model2016 / Hsiao-Ming Chen, Chia-Huei Wu, Sang-Bing Tsai, Jian Yu, Jiangtao Wang, et al.
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Assessing the correlation of Machiavellian beliefs, spiritual intelligence and life satisfaction of Iran's national team athletes (The Iranian national athletes as a Case Study)
Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of Machiavellian Believe, Spiritual Intelligence and life Satisfaction among Iranian National Athletes. Statistical population contains the world and Olympic champions in the selected ...
2016 / Mahyar Mirzaaghazadeh, Farzam Farzan, Saeed Amirnejad, Mostafa Hosseinzadeh -
Sport Tourism Centres from Top Athletes’ Perspective: Differences among Sport Groups2015 / Anze Polanec
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Revisiting super-cycles in commodity prices
Abstract It is argued that business cycles have been moderating. However, there are a limited number of studies in the literature analyzing the cyclical behaviour of commodity prices in the last decades. This paper attempts to fill this gap by...
2016 / Fatma Pınar Erdem, İbrahim Ünalmış -
Implementation of Scrum in the Construction Industry
Abstract The way in which construction projects are managed has not changed significantly in the last decades; however, stakeholders, materials, competition, and user requirements are continuously changing. This creates a gap between the current...
2016 / Thomas Streule, Nino Miserini, Olin Bartlomé, Michael Klippel, Borja García de Soto