the purpose of business entity is to maximize shareholders wealth by enhancing the firm’s value thus, getting expected returns are very important for them. investors and creditors are going to find a precise scale for measuring overall performance of a firm as a whole to decide whether to invest in the firm, to continue with the firm or to exit from it. economic value added (eva) is an analytic...

We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their virtue increases girls’ chances of getting a "good" husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and anthropological evidence, we find that the diffusion (and the social value) of virginity, across societies and over time, can be deter...

Value prediction at the instruction level has been introduced to allow more aggressive speculation and reuse than previous techniques. We investigate the input and output values of basic blocks and find that these values can be quite regular and predictable, suggesting that using compiler support to extend value prediction and reuse to a coarser granularity may have substantial performance bene...

Education is a key factor in promoting and sustaining economic growth and technological development. It is a complex social, cultural and ethical process designed in a social or cultural context. Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual and in its technical sense education is the process by whi...