For partitioning the dataset of financial ratios into abnormal and normal groups, this paper proposes a hybrid clustering technique by combining similarity matching (SM) algorithm with self-organizing maps (SOM), called SM-SOM technique. The hybrid system provides three stages: preprocessing stage, similarity matching with cosine algorithm and SOM cluster. For evaluating the performance of this...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted many sectors including the Islamic Banking sector. This study aims to analyze profitability of banking before and during pandemic, a case at Bank Muamalat Indonesia (BMI). research indicators used are financial ratios in form ROA (Return on Assets), ROE Equity), BOPO (Operating Agency Operating Income), NOM (Net Margin), EPS (Earning Per Share). method is comp...

Reducing malnutrition and poverty remains at the centre of policy. Rabbit rearing, great economic importance, is a critical pathway to achieving this. Good knowledge profitability rabbit production its driving factors can enhance participation in production. Thus, this study examined performance (profitability) production, influencing barriers. Descriptive statistics, analysis, Tobit regression...

Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in which the ESCO remains an outsider with higher transaction costs and limited interest and participation in the value created by the cost saving...

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Profitability and investment are becoming the new focus of empirical asset pricing. This paper examines the extent to which their return predictability is attributable to behavioral bias, specifically, investors’ tendency to anchor on 52-week high. Based on a return decomposition methodology developed by George, Hwang, and Li (2014), two profitability measures (operating profitability, return o...

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile services envisages network heterogeneity, cell densification, and high spectral efficiency using Massive MIMO, operating at millimeter-wave frequencies. Accurately assessing the potential of financial returns for such a complex network poses to operators unique challenges including techno-economic analysis leading to the identification of decision variables m...