This paper investigates whether the Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argument on domestic saving-investment relationship is supported by the data of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region when the financial development levels and exchange rate regimes are taken into account. To this end, we employ both the ARDL bounds cointegration test and panel mean group procedures. The ...

In this study, the researchers investigated a critical aspect of EFL/ESL writing pedagogy-the impact of teacher written commentary on student writer’s earlier drafts. Compositions of 80 Iranian undergraduate English majors were commented on using a trio of imperatives, statements, and questions on both content and form. Overall, the results indicated that the comments in the imperative form hel...

Journal impact is an ill-structured, complex construct. Present bibliometric and survey measures do not capture it fully. The paper deconstructs the combinatorial complexity of the construct using an ontology which encapsulates 2500 potential components of the construct. The ontology is a parsimonious, systemic, and systematic representation of journal impact. The paper presents an ontological ...

prut river is very important for sustaining the biodiversity and economical activities in its area for romania, ukraine and republic of moldova. anthropogenic activities are present everywhere especially near a big water flow because they need a close water resource. the major problems remain the impact and a possible risk produced as a negative result in these activities (agriculture close to ...