Wall. Assisted by Clara Maria Liepmann. New York, Russell Sage Foundation. Price $3. In a Preface to this book by Dr. William Sandy, Director of the Bureau of Mental Health, Department of Welfare, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, we are told that it is an outcome of practical work over a period of many years done by the author as a member of the Bureau of Mental Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva...

what are the main success factors of microfinance institutions in providing financial services to poor people in a sustainable manner? in this article we try to answer this question. in one hand, we analyze the core compatibility between microeconomics of asymmetric information, transaction cost and risk, and new different operational mechanisms applied by microfinance institutions. on the othe...

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (GA-FDEA) model that caters for optimal selecting of economic indicators for the measurement of relative productivity and performance of financial institutions. Imprecise or uncertain data of financial institutions due to varying monetary policies and market risk were retrieved from Nigeria Stock Exchange Commission and eva...

in this period, three french educational institutions, after having been founded in paris, established gradually their schools in iran. these institutions consisted of the lazaristes schools, french alliance and israelite alliance schools. but, quality and quantity of their activities, that formed a part of unknown cultural history of qajar period, haven’t been much investigated. therefore, thi...

There is a growing interest in the study and development of self-* systems motivated by the need for information systems capable of self-management in distributed, open, and dynamic scenarios. Unfortunately,there is a lack of frameworks that support the intricate task of developing self-* systems. We try to make headway along this direction by introducing a framework, EIDE-*, to support the eng...

This paper examines institutional trading in momentum portfolios. The key result is that institutions engage in momentum trading over the subsequent 3 quarters, buying winners and selling losers, in response to past returns but not past earnings news. Momentum trading is strengthened, however, when returns are accompanied by earnings news of the same sign. While past high returns predict future...

We develop an abstract proof calculus for logics whose sentences are ’Horn sentences’ of the form: (∀X)H =⇒ c and prove an institutional generalization of Birkhoff completeness theorem. This result is then applied to the particular cases of Horn clauses logic, the ’Horn fragment’1 of preorder algebras, order-sorted algebras and partial algebras and their infinitary variants. Mathematics Subject...

Institutions were introduced by Goguen and Burstall [GB84, GB85, GB86, GB92] to formally capture the notion of logical system. Interpreting institutions as functors, and morphisms and representations of institutions as natural transformations, we give elegant proofs for the completeness of the categories of institutions with morphisms and representations, respectively, show that the duality bet...

Institutional Change Institutional approaches to the study of organizations provide an active and fruitful line of (1949) inquiry into how organizations become institutions, contemporary institutional analysis asks how organizations are influenced by institutionalized rules and institutional environments-forces that operate, by definition, above and across organizations. Much research documents...