In today’s companies, particularly multi-national enterprises acting on a global scale, historically grown systems and application landscapes, as well as processes, lead to significant problems when systems (and even employees) need to communicate with each other, i.e. when entities are exchanged across processes and organizational units. What is needed is a common language and, hence, unambigu...

This paper studies the excess returns on stocks, associated to various company fundamentals on a panel of US stocks from 1979 to 2008. The returns premia are measured using a random coefficient panel data model on the individual stock level. We show that the HML and SMB factors in the Fama and French model probably have no particular economic meaning as sources of systematic risk other than bei...

The research was aimed at referring to contemporary problems concerning fractures of the proximal femur that, particularly in older patients, represent not only medical, but also social and nursing difficulties. Within November 2004 to March 2006, 83 patients with proximal femoral fractures were treated using PFN. Except for two cases, the post-operative course was favourable and patients could...

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive capacity for the post-merger...

Previous research on the rapidly growing field of Internet recruitment has operated under the implicit assumption that recruitment websites can and do influence viewers’ opinions of recruiting organizations. This study empirically tested this assumption using a pre/post-test experimental design. Results indicated that viewers’ ratings on company familiarity, favorability, image as an employer, ...

Recommender systems are a subclass of information filtering systems that predict the 'rating' or 'preference' that a user would give to an item. Most traditional Recommender Systems (RSs) focus on recommending the most relevant items to individual users and do not take into consideration the circumstances and other contextual information such as time, place and company of other people when reco...

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, there has only been one clinical study that evaluated whether stretching affects the risk of injury. In the cohort study by Amako et al , the intervention was stretching both pre and post exercise. Although not statistically significant, the results suggested a decrease in muscle/tendon injuries with the stretching program, but an increas...

introduction: many studies have been performed to evaluate the stress distribution around endodontic posts; those which compared posts composed of different materials are rare. the aim of this study was to compare stresses induced in dentin by three structurally different posts using photoelasticity method. materials and methods: nine blocks of psm-5 photoelastic material with 45×45×10 mm dimen...

Purpose – Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan bukti empiris kondisi intellectual capital serta ukuran perusahaan BUMN Tbk Sub Sektor Industri Konstruksi Bangunan dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Kinerja Perusahaan.
 Methodology/approach adalah penelitian kausalitas yang menguji hipotesis tentang pengaruh beberapa variable independent terhadap dependent dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasi ...

mites of family erythraeidae are parasites in their larval stage and predators in their post-larval stages on a variety of arthropods, among which are important pest species. during 2011-2013, in a faunistic survey of mites associated with beetles of the family chrysomelidae in oil and gas company of gachsaranregion, iran. specimens were preserved in ag (alcohol 75%, glyserin 5%), cleared in la...