Introduction The swine industry and food supply veterinary medical education are facing unprecedented financial challenges. Substantial restructuring is occurring in both areas. Fortunately, I have the pleasure of working with a group of people in academia that have accepted the current financial challenges and the fast evolving changes in animal agriculture as an opportunity to transform food ...

Wavelet analysis as a recently data filtering method (or multi-scale decomposition) is particularly useful for describing signals with sharp spiky, discontinuous or fractal structure in financial markets. This study investigates the optimal several wavelet thresholding criteria or techniques to support the multi-signal decomposition methods of a daily Korean won / U.S. dollar currency market as...

 Purpose: Strategic decision-making plays an important role in organizational functions and its effectiveness. As a result, the aim of this study was to identifying and analyzing the dimensions and components of strategic decision-making for the managers of education regions. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative an...

This paper presents a distributional analysis of some financial ratios in the insurance industry. Although previous studies have established a reasonably good understanding of the frequency distributions of financial ratios, to date most of our knowledge has been derived from cross-sectoral studies, or from the manufacturing sector in particular. This paper aims to contribute to the literature ...

In this paper, we develop an importance sampling method with the help of flexible control on the Lévy measure in the density transformation. The method has significant efficacy even on evaluating random variables with complex path-dependent structures. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate convergence acceleration through variance reduction with a view towards financial derivatives pri...

In the present paper we construct a new, simple and powerful test for independence by using symbolic dynamics and permutation entropy as a measure of serial dependence. We also give the asymptotic distribution of an affine transformation of the permutation entropy under the null hypothesis of independence. An application to several daily financial time series illustrates our approach.

In this paper I propose two models to understand (not merely describe) the operating logic of the firm that is the business for profit organization both at the micro level, considering the firm as a unit, and at the macro level, considering collectivities of firms of the same kind: 1) when viewed as individual units firms can, at the micro level, be interpreted as operating systems for efficien...

middle east countries have begun to implement economic reforms to stimulate private investment, promote economic growth and support the transition to market economy. although, it is difficult to define the direct impact of the accounting system reform on economic transformation, as there are many other conditions that have influence on the transition process. however, with the central position ...