This study aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of business failure research, recognise the main existing research topics and establish future challenges. The results, based on sample 588 articles, show that number published papers citations has grown steadily, especially in last 14 years. most productive relevant journals, countries, institutions authors are presented using performance indi...

background managing diabetes requires changes in the patients’ life style and health habits which in turn need the comprehensive understanding of the disease and its impact. objectives to understand the explanatory model of diabetes in iran, a qualitative study was performed using the grounded theory method. patients and methods thirty persons were interviewed: fifteen patients, eleven nurses, ...

This paper describes a method for estimating insurance claims or risk premiums allowing for spatial dependence as well as explanatory factors. The concepts are related to those used for graduation of mortality tables using cubic splines but extended to spatial dependence as found in many insurance products. Firstly techniques for measuring spatial dependence are reviewed. Then models with bivar...

Abstract This paper examines the current empirical accounting research paradigm. We ask: In general, do estimated regressions support promoted narratives? focus on a regression model’s main variable of interest and consider extent to which it contributes explanation dependent variable. replicate 10 recently published studies, all rely significant t-statistics, per conventional levels, claim rej...