The basic financial purpose of corporation is creation of its value. Liquidity management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. Many of the current asset management models that are found in financial management literature assume book profit maximization as the basic financial purpose. These book profit-based models could be lacking in what relates to another aim (i.e., ...

BACKGROUND Finding the most appropriate strategy for the prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in young children is essential in countries like Niger with annual "hunger gaps." Options for large-scale prevention include distribution of supplementary foods, such as fortified-blended foods or lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNSs) with or without hou...

It is not uncommon for surviving business owners to find that the heirs of the deceased business owner want to take on a role in the management of the business, even though the family members may have insufficient skills or experience to participate in the business, let alone, the management of the business. Perhaps, the surviving business owners want nothing to do with the deceased owner’s fam...

Achieving a strong and efficient monetary cycle is of great importance and necessity due to the dependency of corporates on banks in Iran. Owing to the importance of cash management in firms, this study assesses the impact of bank health on Cash flow sensitivity of cash of listed corporates on Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) by analyzing 102 firms which have received facilities from 20 active Irani...

A new class of risk measures called cash sub-additive risk measures is introduced to assess the risk of future financial, nonfinancial and insurance positions. The debated cash additive axiom is relaxed into the cash sub-additive axiom to preserve the original difference between the numéraire of the current reserve amounts and future positions. Consequently, cash subadditive risk measures can m...

Transferable conditional electronic-cash (e-cash) allows a payer to spend an e-cash based on the outcome not known in advance. It also allows a payee to spend the e-cash to others, or deposit the e-cash to a bank based on the future outcome. Among security properties, the anonymity of the payer has been widely studied. However, the payer is linkable in the existing conditional e-cash schemes. T...

In this paper we present CASH, a Compiler for Application Specific Hardware. CASH performs high-level synthesis, taking as input ANSI C programs, generating structural Verilog as output. The goal of this paper is to describe the research contributions incorporated in CASH, which advance the techniques of high-level synthesis in several directions. From the outset we set the goal for CASH to sup...

The austerity movement in high-income countries of Europe and North America has renewed calls for a guaranteed Basic Income. At the same time, conditional and unconditional cash transfers accompanied by rigorous impact evaluations have been conducted in lowand middle-income countries with the explicit support of the World Bank. Both Basic Income and cash transfer programs are more confidently d...