Aquaponics provides a sustainable means of converting aquaculture effluent to nutrients for growing plant. This unconventional, but synergistic system food production has been documented be economically feasible and sustainable, particularly in areas with limited land water resources availability. study assessed the economic feasibility low-cost small-scale aquaponics using output data. Price t...

This study tries to see the effect of managerial ownership, institutional liquidity, profitability, and debt policy on dividend policy. Managerial ownership is measured by ratio number shares owned total shares; percentage share in structure, current dividing assets liabilities, equity, profitability net income with assets. Profitability calculated uses purposive sampling taking data from 20 mi...

Purpose The banking sector in West Asia has always experienced positive growth except for Palestine. Apart from some negligible outlying outcomes countries that have faced political crises and war, most Asian gained bank profitability efficiency. However, the stability been rarely examined literature. Hence, this study sheds light on examining by considering 12 Asia. Design/methodology/approach...

We extend the current empirical literature on privatization by exploring the effect of ultimate privatization on the performance of Chinese listed companies. Ultimate privatization is defined as the incidence of transferring the ultimate control of a state-owned company from the government to private owners. Using a sample of 127 Chinese listed companies that have had controlling blocks transfe...

The purpose of this study is to calculate and examine the Islamic banks operating efficiency in Pakistan. It consists of 04(four) full-fledged Islamic Banks of Pakistan. The results of Liquidity & Profitability ratios and stochastic frontier approach using data of 2004 to 2011 showed positive patterns with respect to ROE, ROA and NPR. According to the achieved results, Meezan Islamic Bank can b...

Productivity Control loops are a vital part of the process industry and are especially important when it comes to quality, economy and safety. In fact, a significant portion of incorrectly tuned automatic control loops can actually decrease production performance rather than improve it. The availability and effectiveness of a control system is essential for operating the process safely and at m...

In the fractional ownership model, the partial owner of an aircraft is entitled to certain flight hours per year, and the management company is responsible for all the operational considerations of the aircraft and for making an aircraft available to the owner at the requested time and place. In the recent years although the industry as a whole has experienced significant growth, most of the ma...

This study investigates the firm level determinants of profitability of Indian drug and pharmaceutical industry. The study uses inflation adjusted panel data for a period 2000-2013 and applies OLS regression model with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors. It has been found that export intensity, A&M intensity, firm’s market power and stronger patent regime dummy have exercised positive influence on ...

Consider multiple companies operating as a serial supply chain. Within this environment, end users form the demand for the last company in the supply chain, but the demand for upstream companies is formed by the companies in the immediate downstream supply chain link. It has been shown that demand seasonality and forecast error can increase as we proceed up the supply chain. These demand distor...