One of the central problems the world currently faces is environmental degradation. Research data have shown that the natural environment is in an alarming state. Ihe production of pollutants emissions and products and energy consumption needs to be reduced substantially. The role of indwtry is particulary viral in reaching this goal. Companies need to act in a pro-active and preventive way. Th...

Ample evidence shows that KDD has become a major topic of interest in both research and industry in China since 2006. In academia, professor Zhi-Hua Zhou at Nanjing University in 2006 chaired a National Machine Learning workshop, inviting researchers in the greater China area to share their experience. In 2009, the first Asian Conference on Machine learning was inaugurated in Nanjing. In indust...

As the enterprise Informatization process goes through deep, an increasing number of enterprises deploy their web sites on the internet, making the web sites become a brand of the enterprise. Thus, it is very necessary to evaluate the quality for enterprise web sites. However, almost the total current website evaluation methods have ignored the external web influence factors of quantitative eva...

BACKGROUND The Allen Carr training (ACt) is a popular one-session smoking cessation group training that is provided by licensed organizations that have the permission to use the Allen Carr method. However, few data are available on the effectiveness of the training. METHODS In a quasi-experimental design the effects of the existing practice of providing the ACt to smokers (n = 124) in compani...

Drawing upon research on the initiatives of Canadian mining companies, this paper examines private efforts in the mining sector to promote acceptable standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although much has been written on CSR in the business and organization fields, there has been little scholarly treatment of the topic from a social sciences perspective. A common assumption is th...

This article analyzes how chemical manufacturers can develop stronger business advantages for green chemistry by rethinking sustainability marketing approaches. Green chemistry is a package of technologies, design principles and tools to reduce the toxicity, resource and energy use, and pollution of chemicals. Using research into US chemical industry efforts, this article introduces green chemi...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded access pathway allows patients with life-threatening or serious conditions to investigational drugs outside of trials, under certain conditions. 21st Century Cures Act (“Cures Act”) requires drug companies publicly disclose their policies. We characterized the proportion applicable biopharmaceutical companies, an oncology related drug, implemen...

embryo donation was one of the infertility treatment methods introduced to the iranian legal system in 2003 (act of embryo donation) and its by-law passed in 2005 after numerous discussions. embryo donation is a new legal issue in iran. no similar act has been previously legislated in the legal system; however, on the other hand, the importance of the judicial procedure in its execution cannot ...

This study aims to test the adaptive market hypothesis by using myopic behavior of investors as a new proxy. The data have been taken from New York Stock Exchange December 1994 2020. Following this collection data, companies’ stock prices were distributed into six different portfolios based on size, investment, book-to-market value, and operating profit. Ordinal logistic regression was used cal...