Planning is essential to the successful conversion of conventional to organic farming. Currently, advisors base planning on personal experience and expertise, historical and market data. The process can be time consuming and expensive. A new software package designed to support this process has been developed. The software enables the user to construct conversion scenarios for a farm over a per...

The p-cycles can be described as preconfigured closed protection paths in a mesh network. Like rings, the protection path is preconnected in advance of any failure and protection capacity is very fast and simple. And like mesh p-cycle offers the high capacity efficiency. The use of wavelength converter in p-cycle enhances the capacity and rapid protection mechanism for mesh-restorable networks....

This study investigates empirically the value investors place in excess cash holdingand how managerial ability impact on the value of cash holding for Iranianfirms from 2006 to 2014. In this research, managerial ability calculated by usingthe data envelopment analysis (DEA). Following the approach of Faulkender andWang, we find that the relation between managerial ability and value of cash hold...

It is the general case that business process improvements can be achieved through a range of possible projects ranging from pure business process reengineering through to IT deployment. When IT forms part of the process improvement project Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and functional solution requirements provide the means of linking the business performance goals to the IT project. In this p...

Direct lineage conversion is a promising approach for disease modeling and regenerative medicine. Cell divisions play a key role in reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency, however their role in direct lineage conversion is not clear. Here we used transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into neuronal cells by forced expression of defined transcription factors as a model system to study the r...

We extend the Barth, Cram, and Nelson (2001) model with disaggregated accruals by investigating whether cash flow components (core and non-core cash flows) improve cash flow predictability. BCN investigate the role of accrual components in predicting future cash flows while this study extends their study by investigating the role of cash flow components. We propose a cash flow prediction model ...

A common perspective in macro-finance analyses links firms’ borrowing constraints to the liquidation value of physical assets firms pledge as collateral. We empirically investigate borrowing by non-financial firms in the US. We find that 20% of corporate debt by value is collateralized by specific physical assets (“asset-based lending” in creditor parlance), while 80% is based predominantly on ...

Simulation games are an effective educational tool that offer life-like scenarios and develop valuable functional business knowledge and decision-making skills. These skills have been shown to be invaluable in the current job market. This paper describes a novel adaptation of the HEC Montreal Enterprise Resource Planning Simulation Game into an interinstitutional competition. Teams of universit...

ISO 9000 is the most popular and widely adopted meta-standard for quality and operational improvements in manufacturing supply chains. However, few studies have quantitatively examined its impact on supply chain efficiency. In this paper we measure the material and cash flow efficiency of ISO 9000 certified firms in terms of inventory days and account receivable days. We analyzed changes in the...

this study investigates empirically the value investors place in excess cash holdingand how managerial ability impact on the value of cash holding for iranianfirms from 2006 to 2014. in this research, managerial ability calculated by usingthe data envelopment analysis (dea). following the approach of faulkender andwang, we find that the relation between managerial ability and value of cash hold...