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Abstract The impacts of financing decision ratios on a firm's accounting-based performance are essentially associated with particular data. For this purpose, firm size, age, and leverage taken into account as control variables. past studies have been reviewed to find gaps, which seemed incorporate worn-out methods research, the inability researchers inculcate while measuring overall performance...

this research aims to explain the growth and value stocks anomaly by the relationship between accounting ratios and skewness of stock return distribution. then, the data of 89 companies listed in the tehran stock exchange are collected and analyzed for 2009 to 2013. furthermore, the fixed effect panel data method is used to examine the hypothesis. the results show that there is a negative and s...

This study determines whether it is possible to distinguish between conventional and Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region on the basis of financial characteristics alone. Islamic banks operate under different principles, such as risk sharing and the prohibition of interest, yet both types of banks face similar competitive conditions. The combination of effects makes it unc...

The California Laboratory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Fourier transform spectrometer (CLARS-FTS) deployed at Mount Wilson, California, has been measuring column abundances of greenhouse gases in the Los Angeles (LA) basin in the near-infrared spectral region since August 2011. CLARS-FTS measures reflected sunlight and has high sensitivity to absorption and scattering in the boundary layer. I...

0950-7051/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2011.11.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Faculty of Econom Oviedo, Avda. Del Cristo s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain. Te E-mail address: [email protected] (J. de Andrés). In this paper we address the bankruptcy prediction problem and outline a procedure to improve the performance of standard classifiers. Our proposal replaces t...

Background Avante Zambéziais an initiative of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Friends in Global Health, LLC (FGH) and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) to provide technical assistance to the Mozambican Ministry of Health (MoH) in rural Zambézia Province. Avante Zambézia developed a district level Health Management Mentorship (HMM) program to strengthen health systems in t...