This paper presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programmes on Acehnese children during the post-tsunami recovery. The study, conducted from June to August 2010, examined the impact of microfinance programming six years after the tsunami. The sample consisted of 185 microfinance participants, with a comparison group of 192 individuals who did not participate in microfin...

In the stock market, technical analysis is a useful method for predicting stock prices. Although, professional stock analysts and fund managers usually make subjective judgments, based on objective technical indicators, it is difficult for non-professionals to apply this forecasting technique because there are too many complex technical indicators to be considered. Moreover, two drawbacks have ...

The present study raises the concept of network technical anonymity, and designs its corresponding evaluation indicators and model, in order to provide the basis and methods for the evaluation of how anonymous a behavioral agent is on the net. Network technical anonymity is defined as the difficulty in tracking the real identity of a network agent. Five indicators have been designed as follows:...

TinTO is an experimental system aiming at demonstrating the usefulness and feasibility of incrementally evaluated SQL queries for analyzing a wide spectrum of data streams. As application area we have chosen the technical analysis of stock market data, mainly because this kind of application exhibits sufficiently many of those characteristics for which relational query technology can be reasona...

in this study, we focused on tehran stock exchange market analysis based on applying moving average rules. the tehran stock exchange in the middle east has evolved into an exciting and growing marketplace where individual and institutional investor trade securities of over 420 companies. in an attempt to examine the ability to earn excess return by exploiting moving average rules, the average a...