The mining of existing assets is an important concern for software developers and organisations. The availability of tools which allow fine grained queries to be performed on these assets will improve productivity by allowing developers to locate and adapt assets efficiently. Mining of assets can take part at many different stages throughout the software development lifecycle. Typical assets fo...

A consistent empirical feature of bond yields is that term premia are, on average, positive. The majority of theoretical explanations for this observation have viewed the term premia through the lens of the consumption based capital asset pricing model. In contrast, we harken to an older empirical literature that attributes the term premium to the idea that short maturity bonds are inherently m...

Knowledge is a very key in nearly every business process. The flow of knowledge in process is supported by various so called knowledge assets which embody either implicit knowledge which is bound to persons or explicit knowledge which is incorporated in organizational documents, handbooks or code artifacts. A large store of knowledge assets, however, is worthless, if these assets stay unused. T...

This article examines the scope for strategies to build natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. Natural assets include sources of raw materials such as forests and fisheries, and the airsheds, lands, and water bodies that provide environmental sinks for the disposal of wastes. These resources become assets when people have rights to access their benefits. Four str...

This brief report assesses the validity of applying the adolescent-based developmental assets model to emerging adults. Developmental assets are specific constructs which predict future success, including positive individual characteristics and environmental resources. The research­ ers developed a self-report survey based on a subset of the assets and outcome behaviors most applicable to emerg...

In a Collaborative Network (CN) scenario it would be desirable that CN members could be able to start collaboration within their Virtual Organization Breeding Environments or Professional Virtual Communities in a short time-frame, whenever a new Business Opportunity appears. As a contribution towards such dynamic scenario, this paper proposes the concepts of Assets Entity, Pro-Active Assets Ent...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of internal and external factors on the ratio of outstanding claims in those banks which are accepted in tehran stock exchange. for this purpose, we used the data obtained from 8 banks and credit institution active in the tehran stock exchange and using data regression panel.  the present survey was examined over the period 2011 till 2015. the ...

The measurement and valuation of intangible assets are a matter of considerable interest to managers, investors, and accounting-standard setters. Important decisions concerning intangibles are hampered by the lack of systematic and comparable measures for these increasingly important assets. In this study, we provide an approach to estimating the value of intangible assets that are not recorded...

Property asset management is keenly influenced by the market rental price for the services and asset quality. Renovation is conceived as a form of redevelopment that returns the property back to its pristine state after experiencing quality deterioration. We formulate a two-factor renovation model under rental price and quality uncertainty and a fixed investment cost. The renovation policy is d...

The academic and practitioner literature is replete with definitions of the concepts of intellectual capital, knowledge assets, and their measurement. What is missing is the connectivity among them in the public sector (government and not-for-profit) context. This paper presents an overview of the definitions, reviews the research efforts to develop appropriate metrics for knowledge assets in p...