Given the importance of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) setting national agendas and policies to improve public health, this article examines whether SDG 3 and its associated indicators have an adequate theory of change for improving health systems performance. To do so, this article maps all SDG 3 indicators to a prominent health systems framework. The analysis reveals that SDG 3 tracks...

We show that standard financial indicators may not be adequately described with linear stochastic methods. The data are consistent with what one would observe when the underlying system exhibits low dimensional deterministic nonlinear dynamics, albeit in addition to substantial high dimensional dynamics. Furthermore, nonlinear modeling algorithms at our disposal provide evidence of deterministi...

the purpose of this paper is to analyze the simultaneous effect of corporate culture and market orientation on the performance of small to medium-sized industrial manufacturing firms. to this end, a cross-sectional survey and variance based structural equation modeling was used for testing the hypotheses. the samples were selected based on a stratified sampling of commodity and specialty indust...

in this study we analyze the effects of environmental performance on the generation of firm value from dow jones sustainability index europe. we use a sample of 122 firms from different sectors, except financial one, which belong to this index for the years 2007 through 2009. the expected results, taking into account our hypotheses, should show a positive relationship between the generation of ...

Recent research has shown that companies face considerable difficulties in implementing a value-based management of their IT portfolios. This paper therefore presents an approach for measuring and managing the business value of IT investments. To ensure practicability, our approach is derived from a set of practice-based requirements extending previous empirical work. In our conceptual model we...

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (GA-FDEA) model that caters for optimal selecting of economic indicators for the measurement of relative productivity and performance of financial institutions. Imprecise or uncertain data of financial institutions due to varying monetary policies and market risk were retrieved from Nigeria Stock Exchange Commission and eva...

Bankruptcy prediction has been widely studied as a binary classification problem using financial ratios methodologies. In this paper, Leave-One-Out-Incremental Extreme Learning Machine (LOO-IELM) is explored for this task. LOO-IELM operates in an incremental way to avoid inefficient and unnecessary calculations and stops automatically with the neurons of which the number is unknown. Moreover, C...