The aim of research is to model the dependency of enterprises on their financial ratios for predicting bankruptcy using artificial neural networks combined with fuzzy logic. A sample of companies which are financially distressed but not yet bankrupt is considered for conducting experiments. The data extracted from financial reports of financially distressed companies for past five year forms th...

Financial institutions see the Internet as an important channel and many have built websites to inform and attract customers. Financial aggregation services as represented by “Account Aggregator” present an opportunity by which financial institutions can build stronger relationships with customers. Account aggregation services began in the United States, but they are now widely used by financia...

ranking of companies listed on the exchange represent their status and considered a criterion for investment. also, it increases market's competition, development and efficiency. in this study, the fifty superior companies listed in tehran stock exchange were ranked based on financial ratios (liquidity, operational, leverage and profitability) using fahp- ftopsis hybrid approach during the...

OBJECTIVE It was hypothesized that, for people with severe traumatic injuries, no association between long term health status and receiving financial compensation would be detected. DESIGN Two prospective cohort studies. SUBJECTS A group of people with severe traumatic brain injury (n = 132) and a group of people with traumatic spinal cord injury (n = 58). METHODS Health status and functi...

This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time preference, and choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our analysis, we elicit rates of time discount from choices in financial and health domains. We also examine the relationship between other determinants of time preference and smoking status. We find very high rates of time discount in the financ...

BACKGROUND Completion of a pain drawing is a familiar task in those presenting with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). Some people report pain almost over their entire body. Yet the reasons for larger pain extent have not been fully explored. METHODS A novel method was applied to quantify pain extent from the pain drawings of 205 individuals with chronic WAD. Pain extent was evaluated in re...

Recent high-profile efforts have called for integrating ecosystem-service values into important societal decisions, but there are few demonstrations of this approach in practice. We quantified ecosystem-service values to help the largest private landowner in Hawaii, Kamehameha Schools, design a land-use development plan that balances multiple private and public values on its North Shore land ho...

Six assertions concerning the status of Bitcoin are formulated and defended: (i) Bitcoin is not and will not become a currency-like informational commodity, (ii) currencylike informational commodities that aren’t currencies must be frauds, (ii) specific BTC amounts may become monetized and thus may be turned into financial assets, (iii) currently no BTC amounts are monetized in any currency are...