Program Committee Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University, Australia Stefano Cerri, LIRMM, CNRS & Un. Montpellier II, France Weiqin Chen, University ofBergen, Norway John Cherniavsky, National Science Foundation, USA Vladan Devedzic, University ofBelgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Yannis Dimitriadis, University ofValladolid, Spain Pedro Garcia, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain Eduardo G mez-S nchez, U...

BACKGROUND Section 114 of the 1997 Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) effective February 19, 1998, permitted some additional flexibility for drug companies to provide "health care economic information" to "a formulary committee or other similar entity" and may have caused a decline in economic messages used in print advertisements in medical journals. We previously investiga...

the main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (ic) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. the manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (standard industrial classification (...

All the species of Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 karyotyped up until now have been classified as 2n = 22. The species of the Physalaemus cuvieri group analyzed by C-banding present a block of heterochromatin in the interstitial region of the short arm of pair 5. Physalaemus cicada Bokermann, 1966 has been considered to be a member of the Physalaemus cuvieri species group, although its interspecif...

a detailed study of ostracoda changes against the stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen acrossthe cenomanian-turonian boundary mass extinction has been fully documented in one section, the south ofengland. this section comprises the uppermost cenomanian to lowermost turonian strata. the comparisonbetween the results obtained in this research and two rival models for the cenomanian-turonian bound...

This study investigates the firm-specific factors affecting the profitability of non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey. For this purpose, data of 24 non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey from the period 2006–2013 were brought together to obtain 192 observed panel data sets. In this study, profitability is measured by two different variables: technical profitability ratio a...

The evolution of reporting about employees in the 20th century culminated in the mandatory disclosures of the Companies Act (1985). This paper reports upon a study of the employee reporting practices of FTSE 100 companies that was carried out by examining the year 2000 annual report and accounts. The analysis whilst noting a wide range of practice among these companies, finds that their annual ...

opening the market early for consumers and for funding the expensive lawsuit. Yet Cobalt, which had agreed to delay consumer access to the generic brand by abandoning its effort to knock out what proved to be a patent that never should have been issued in the first place, was able to “double-dip.” Cobalt was able to keep the money it was paid by the brand-name drug company to abandon the patent...