The use of integration practices, both internal (where various functions work together) and external (links with customers and suppliers during development), are espoused in the new product development (NPD) literature. However, empirical findings in the literature suggest adoption of integration practices does not necessarily lead to positive performance. We introduce the concept of integratio...

In this paper, we present an electromagnetic analysis for three-dimensional arbitrarily shaped large structures illuminated by a short pulse. The time domain electric field integral equation (EFIE) formulation is used to obtain the early time data with a central differencing scheme to evaluate the time derivatives of the potential functions. The solution method is based on the method of moments...

We examine the yield curve behavior and the relative performance of affine term structure models using government bond yield data from Canada, Germany, Japan, UK, and US. We find strong predictability of forward rates for excess bond returns and reject the expectations hypothesis across all five countries. A three-factor model is sufficient to capture movements in the yield curve of Canada, Jap...

Ordinal Optimization has emerged as an efficient technique for simulation and optimization. Exponential convergence rates can be achieved in many cases. In this paper, we present a new approach that can further enhance the efficiency of ordinal optimization. Our approach determines a highly efficient number of simulation replications or samples and significantly reduces the total simulation cos...

Yûnus Emre, hümanizm felsefesinin tartışılmaz önderlerinden biri olarak Türk dili, tarihi ve edebiyatında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Şiirlerinin hem içerik de sanatsal değeri çok sevilmesine yol açmıştır. Bu nedenle eserlerinin pek nüshası bulunmaktadır.
 çalışmada Yunus Emre Dîvânı’nda geçen dört büyük melekten olan İsrâfil’in Kıyamet Günü’nde üfleyeceği boru Sûr ile birlikte kullanılan ya...

إن العلاقات الليبية الأوروبية علاقات موغلة في القدم، ونتيجة لقرب الشواطئ برقة لجزر البحر الأبيض المتوسط، فقد نشأت تجارية بين القبائل وجزيرة كريت وكانت قبيلة المشوش على اتصال بالشردن لمدة سبعين عاماً قبل تحالفهم مع الليبيين عهد الفرعون مرنبتاح . شعوب هم وقبائل هندو اوروبية هاجرت من شرق شمال أوروبا، وشرق بحر قزوين واواسط آسيا دفعات متتالية إلى شبه جزيرة البلقان ( اليونان)، وإلى سواحل وجزر ايجه وتض...

We present life tables by single year of age and sex for groups of animals and for 42 individual mostly mammalian species. Data are derived from the International Species Information System. The survivorship of most of these species has never been mapped systematically. We demonstrate that, in most of the groups, female survivorship significantly exceeds that of males above age five. Wild-born ...

Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation undermines the usefulness of inventory turnover in performance analysis, benchmarking and working capital management. We develop an empirical model using financial data for 311 public-listed retail firms for the years 1987-2000 to investigate the correlation of inventory turnover with gross margin, capital intensity...

We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally suited to test these effects because most Arabic letters share their basic shape with at least one other letter and differ only in the number/position of diacritical points (e...