when research on repatriation has shown that repatriates quit within one year of return from a foreign assignment, this study attempts to find what makes some repatriates stay committed and loyal to their companies when their colleagues are quitting and joining their immediate competitors? the research further extends to explore - factors determining repatriates loyalty, repatriates’ most desir...

the need for more comparisons among models is widely recognized. this study aimed to compare three different modelling approaches for their capability to simulate and predict trends and patterns of winter wheat yield in western germany. the three modelling approaches included an empirical model, a process-based model (lintul2), and a metamodel derived from the process-based model. the models ou...

background: existence or non-existence of adverse selection in insurance market is one of the important cases that have always been considered by insurers. adverse selection is one of the consequences of asymmetric information. theory of adverse selection states that high-risk individuals demand the insurance service more than low risk individuals do. methods: the presence of adverse selection ...

this study concerns determining the factors that may influence the communication skill of those university teachers involved in the field of agricultural sciences in iran. accordingly, based on a cross-sectional survey method, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised through reviewing the related literature. next, the model was revised by the expert panel of the study into a s...

 Abstract: In many applications we have to encountered with bounded dependent variables. Beta regression model can be used to deal with these kinds of response variables. In this paper we aim to study spatially correlated responses in the unit interval. Initially we introduce spatial beta generalized linear mixed model in which the spatial correlation is captured through a random effect. T...

We consider the problem of predicting total Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). A popular approach in prior literature [1], [2] has been to fit a regression model with the precipitation as predictand and various climatological indices and parameters as predictors. The predictor climatological indices and parameters are detected through an analysis of their linear correlations with the Indian...