The present paper is based on studying, analyzing and implementing the expert systems in the financial and accounting domain of the companies, describing the use method of the informational systems that can be used in the multi-national companies, public interest institutions, and medium and small dimension economical entities, in order to optimize the managerial decisions and render efficient ...

Dr. Friedewald has no conflicts to disclose. Dr Ballantyne has received research grants and honoraria from Amarin Pharma, Inc. and has also received research grants and served as a consultant and speaker for numerous other pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Bays has received research grants and served as an adviser to Amarin Pharma Inc. and has also received research grants and served as a consultan...

This article investigates the development of the share of women CEOs and chairpersons in knowledge intensive industries in Sweden from 2000 to 2010. The Swedish national development, covering all limited companies with a CEO, is compared to case studies of the biotech and the ICT industries, with differences in female participation in the highly educated key workforce. The results indicate an i...

We introduce a model intended for the analysis of the upgrade of the national transmission grid which explicitly accounts for responses given by the power generating companies in terms of plant expansion. The problem is modeled as a bilevel program with mixed integer structure in both, upper and lower level. Upper level is defined by the transmission company problem which has to decide on how t...

Searching Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, NHS CRD's Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed and the National Research Register (NRR) were searched from 1980 to July 1999 (search terms provided). In addition, the bibliographies of related papers were searched and...

This study aims to help business community understand other cultures by utilizing the database. Particularly, the comprehensive information on the member states of ASEAN, which should be perceive as Blue Oceans, will be used for the companies to survive the global competition. In the midst of the global business arena, cultural literacy plays a very important role in expanding business overseas...

Sales forecasting is a common topic in business. Our task is predicting a famous drug company daily sales for 1,115 stores located across Germany for six weeks in advance. Store sales are influenced by many factors. Our project aims to create a robust prediction model. Based on Gradient Boosting and Random Forest, our model performs well in this sales forecasting competition with resulting in r...

In November, 1963, a small private symposium met at Johns Hopkins Univers^ to explore what were the major problems in making safe and effective drugs avails. from both the academic and industrial fields were present. In addition, the gt?f. included economists, the president of a drug company, lawyers and an Eng'1^ social scientist (Professor Richard Titmuss). In the course of their deliberation...

I n global-health politics, cardiovascular disease is the elephant in the room—a massive problem that few want to acknowledge and even fewer want to tackle. In [a recent issue of] Lancet, Carlene Lawes and colleagues, on behalf of the International Society of Hypertension, estimate that bloodpressure-related diseases cause about half this burden, killing around 8 million people each year.1 Low-...

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