flood disaster is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastatingeffects on the affected areas. determining the flood vulnerable areas is important fordecision makers in order to perform planning and management activities. geographicalinformation system (gis) is integrated with multi criteria decision analysis (mcda)used to analyze the flood vulnerable areas. the aim of this researc...

stock selection method in stock exchange is an important issue for investors in such markets. investors will gain benefits more than market average provided that they make logical decisions while selecting stocks. the issue of stock selection in markets like tehran stock exchange (that are not so efficient) is requires more attention of the investors as there is not a suitable equilibrium betwe...

Several splitting criteria for binary classification trees are shown to be written as weighted sums of two values of divergence measures. This weighted sum approach is then used to form two families of splitting criteria. One of them contains the chi-squared and entropy criterion, the other contains the mean posterior improvement criterion. Both family members are shown to have the property of ...

dividend policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. this study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in tehran stock exchange. based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. to test the research hypotheses, this study uses fixed effe...

abstract: performance evaluation models of information and communication technology (ict) sectors have been already considered with many perspectives of ict management. since ict has two distinct aspects of usefulness and harmfulness for the environment, therefore, this research with regard to the new dimension named environment, is going to present a new performance evaluation model with the a...