The objectives of the thesis which comprises six parts – can be summarized in i) implementing linear and nonlinear/nonparametric approaches toward detecting, measuring and analyzing the nature and directionality of causal relationships in financial markets, ii) elaborating on modern topics in financial investment analysis, iii) probing into the role of commodity futures in constructing optimal ...

BACKGROUND Although researchers have worked in collaboration since the origins of modern science and the publication of the first scientific journals in the eighteenth century, this phenomenon has acquired exceptional importance in the last several decades. Since the mid-twentieth century, new knowledge has been generated from within an ever-growing network of investigators, working cooperative...

The aim of this paper is to extend our knowledge about the power-law relationship between citationbased performance and collaboration patterns for papers in the natural sciences. We analyzed 829,924 articles that received 16,490,346 citations. The number of articles published through collaboration account for 89%. The citation-based performance and collaboration patterns exhibit a power-law cor...

As we have developed a number of authoring systems for simulation-centered tutorial development, each successive authoring system has achieved its original goals, and yet has been quickly shown to have limitations that motivated the next authoring system. The history of these systems reveals two emerging requirement themes. The first theme is that there is a need for more than one level of tuto...

Lucien Criblez works and researches at the University of Zurich, where he has held professorship for Historical Educational Research Policy since 2008. His publication record encompasses more than 28 authored, edited or co-edited books, countless journal articles as well book chapters on history education, educational policy analysis, school theory teacher education. Prior to his position in a ...

We recently co-authored a report on the ten-year (2007-2017) results achieved at our center (Retina Specialists of Alabama) in treatment Acute Post-Cataract Endophthalmitis (APCE). Of all eyes, 77.4% were initially treated with Complete and Early Vitrectomy for (CEVE). Visual acuity ≥ 20/40 was restored 79% eyes versus 53% reported Study. believe that CEVE is initial choice whenever fundus obsc...

objective: this paper tries to analyse and visualize the co-authorship network of institutions in 1351 papers published in 7 knowledge and information science journals in iran from 1387 through 1391.methodology: in this paper, we use scientometric and social network analysis to study the collaboration network of institutions. overall structure of the network was investigated using a few macro-l...