Weather and climatic parameters and their impact on farming plants are one of the foremost effective factors on improvement of crop yield. The potential facilities of various regions may be determined with agroclimatic study and exploit maximally from these facilities. In order to evaluate agroclimate of colza cultivation throughout the selected substations at Hamedan Province in this current i...

Orientation: The 2007–2008 global financial crisis (GFC) represented a negative economic shock that financially constrained most firms globally.Research purpose: This study investigated the impact of GFC on firms’ speed adjustment (SOA) towards target leverage and whether this is good descriptor corporate financing for Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed nonfinancial firms.Motivation study...

Transfer learning addresses the problem of how to leverage knowledge acquired in a source domain to improve the accuracy and speed of learning in a related target domain. This paper considers transfer learning with Markov logic networks (MLNs), a powerful formalism for learning in relational domains. We present a complete MLN transfer system that first autonomously maps the predicates in the so...

the latest known source of multicollinearity, a nonorthogonality of two or more explanatory variables in multiple regression models, is high leverage points. Interpreting a fitted regression model may become impossible by the influential impacts of multicollinearity. In this paper, we attempt to investigate the impact of different sample sizes as one of the main causing factors of high leverage...

Robust selection of variables in a linear regression model is investigated. Many variable selection methods are available, but very few methods are designed to avoid sensitivity to vertical outliers aswell as to leverage points. The nonnegative garrotemethod is a powerful variable selection method, developed originally for linear regression but recently successfully extended to more complex reg...

In recent years there has been considerable activity, by business analysts and academics, in developing new approaches to understanding contemporary innovation processes. This has resulted in the emergence of a large number of conceptual alternatives, with many overlapping features. It is the aim of this paper to outline and compare the most popular of these frameworks, and develop a model inco...

This paper investigates the diffusion of system dynamics as research paradigm. It deals with the question whether the diffusion of system dynamics is influenced by network externalities. Assuming the existence of such network externalities the so called penguin and bandwagon effect must be considered regarding the diffusion. Based on a system dynamics model considering network externalities lev...