Implementing Learning Management Systems (LMS) in universities is becoming one of the most critical decisions in higher education environment as they could yield long term benefit particularly in terms of enhancing the quality of teaching and learning processes and gaining competitive positions. Like IT and IS investment in other sectors generally, there is a need to develop a more comprehensiv...

Increasing economy’s resistance against the menace of sanctions, various risks, shocks, and internal and external threats are one of the main national policies which can be implemented through bank investments. Investment project selection is a complex and multi-criteria decision-making process that is influenced by multiple and often some conflicting objectives. This paper studies portfolio inve...

The study of memory for event duration in pigeons has, for the most part, centered on an unusual behavioral phenomenon and an interesting theoretical explanation for it. A typical experiment on memory for event duration involves trials initiated by a sample stimulus that is either short or long in duration (e.g., 2 vs. 10 sec of houselight) and that is later followed by the simultaneous present...

In this paper the efficiency of the electricity generation portfolio of BKW, a major Swiss utility, is analyzed. By applying mean-variance portfolio theory to the current and to possible future generation mixes, efficient frontiers are derived. The analysis based on relative changes in generation costs is complemented by an actual costs analysis. Moreover, a method that takes into account physi...

With pressure on defence budgets, the military have a requirement to revisit the value of training, education and experiential learning in order to inform future balance of investment decisions. This paper introduces new approaches to the value of training, education and experiential learning through use of intermediate decision-based measures. It discusses previous research and experiments des...

With regard to the importance of scientific decision-making in power plants prioritization to produce electrical energy (power) from renewable energies (purified), in this paper, research with specialists opinions with respond to questionnaires provided upon three efficient operational criterion in position of three presented power plant in country which used wind, solar water energies for prod...

Moving averages are one of the most popular and easy-to-use tools available to a technical analyst, and they also form the building blocks for many other technical indicators and overlays. Building a moving average (MA) model needs determining four factors of (1) approach of issuing signals, (2) technique of calculating MA, (3) length of MA, and (4) band. After a literature re...

Financial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial decision-making, influencing savings, stock-picking, and avoidance of outright financial mistakes. Yet, there is little evidence that education intended to improve financial decision-making is successful. Using plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to state-mandated personal finance and mathema...

We exploit the potential of latent class analysis in order to propose an innovative framework for financial portfolio development. By stressing the latent nature of the most important financial variables, the expected return and the risk, we are able to introduce a methodological dimension in relevant steps of portfolio analysis. First, we provide a test for the number of possible investment ch...