One of the most important questions in project management is how to assign new projects to project managers. This question is especially challenging when a project manager already leads multiple, concurrent projects, e.g., a multiple-project manager of new product development projects in typical high-tech industries. To address this question, we explored the project assignment process of six ma...

An operator for the composition of two processes, where one process has priority over the other process, is studied. Processes are described by action systems, and data refinement is used for transforming processes. The operator is shown to be compositional, i.e. monotonic with respect to refinement. It is argued that this operator is adequate for modelling priorities as found in programming la...

The importance of maintaining sufficient liquidity in financial markets is emphasised strongly in the academic literature. During the 1990s the United Kingdom monetary authorities introduced a number of structural reforms in the government bond market, aimed at improving secondary market liquidity. In this paper we examine the impact of the reforms by attempting to ascertain if liquidity levels...

conclusions it is concluded that the most of pregnant women are oblivious to their health for getting pregnant and some of them experience symptoms of mental disorders in reproductive age. the findings show that domestic violence is a hidden and persistent epidemic among the pregnant women. women, who had more previous delivery, needed this information less. results the results showed that 17.5...

Abstract T ire cent decades, the internationalization of trade and companies' engagement in the global market has been found with a double significance. Planning and investment to increase the share of non-oil exports in total exports and reform its combination to export of goods and services with higher technology are of approaches of vision plan that export of Construction Services ...

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This study examines the relationship between above-market price (or overpricing), along with various housing attributes, and time on the market (TOM). The study covers nearly 4,000 transactions of marketed domestic units of different living tenures, flat sizes, price ranges, and other physical characteristics in the Hong Kong residential property market. The results show that factors such as th...

This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions. Both a statistical and a macroeconomic implementation of the model are performed for the period 1986-2002 with monthly retur...