In these difficult economic times, many practices are looking for ways to improve profitability. It is strange, however, that when economic conditions improve, improving profitability seems to become less a priority. Why not strive for better profitability all the time? If a practice is well run in good times, it will be better positioned to weather difficult times. Patient satisfaction can be ...

While extensive study deals with bank competition and performance relationship, this pioneers in focusing the existence Islamic presence of well established conventional banking system Malaysia. This paper assesses impact changing landscape penetration on risk, profitability capitalization. utilizes an unbalanced panel dataset consisting 37 commercial banks over period 1997 to 2015. uses a VAR ...

The efficacy of nucleus-targeted drug- or gene-carrying nanoparticles may be limited by slow transport through the molecularly crowded cytoplasm following endosome escape. Cytoskeletal elements and cellular organelles may pose steric and/or adhesive obstacles to the efficient intracellular transport of nanoparticles. To potentially reduce adhesive interactions of colloids with intracellular com...

The generational change in the family business opens up expectations of strategies such as sustainability, professionalisation and internationalisation. Yet, there are gaps current literature which fail to explain whether benefits according their management, status, effects on performance. This paper compared first with second later generation companies through relevant characteristics. A regre...

In recent years, due to serious environmental problems—increasing global natural gas demand, notable supply growth, LNG capacity expansion, consumption has increased significantly, and the industry entered a booming stage. this paper, China Resources Gas, leading company in industry, is selected as research object. We use DuPont analysis analyze its financial statement from 2014 2017 decompose ...

profitability as the most important factor in decision-making, has always been considered by stake­holders in the company's profitability. also can be a basis for evaluating the performance of the managers. the ability to predict the profitability can be very useful to help decision-makers. that's why one of the most important issues is the expected profitability. the importance of th...

We investigate the issue of predicting new customers as profitable based on information about existing customers in a business-to-business environment. In particular, we show how latent semantic concepts from textual information of existing customers’ websites can be used to uncover characteristics of websites of companies that will turn into profitable customers. Hence, the use of predictive a...

Integrating retail decisions on such aspects as assortment, pricing, and inventory greatly improves profitability. We examine a multi-period selling horizon where a retailer jointly optimizes assortment planning, pricing, and inventory decisions for a product line of substitutable products, in a market with multiple customer segments. Focusing on fast-moving retail products, the problem is mode...

We investigate the issue of predicting new customers as profitable based on information about existing customers in a business-to-business environment. In particular, we show how latent semantic concepts from textual information of existing customers’ websites can be used to uncover characteristics of websites of companies that will turn into profitable customers. Hence, the use of predictive a...