The concept of Value Creation is gaining momentum in Iran under the open regime. Iranian Companies are geared to understand and act upon the concept of Shareholder Value to stay competitive in this unfathomable and volatile environment. Most executives today understand that, the need to create shareholder value is paramount and the world’s most competitive management teams are responding to the...

recently, the economic crisis has resulted in instability in stock exchange market and this has caused high volatilities in stock value of exchanged firms. under these conditions, considering uncertainty for a favorite investment is more serious than before. multi-objective portfolio selection (return, liquidity, risk and initial cost of investment objectives) using minmax fuzzy goal programmin...

investing on growth stocks and value stocks has represented one of the research topics on strategies creating excess return. in this paper, which focuses on companies listed in tehran stock exchange, companies are categorized into growth and value based on certain measures and then their performances are studied. in addition to individual ratios used in a large volume of researches, combined me...

This paper introduces a framework for estimating stationary and non-stationary return levels, return periods, and risks of climatic extremes using Bayesian inference. This framework is implemented in the Non-stationary Extreme Value Analysis (NEVA) software package, explicitly designed to facilitate analysis of extremes in the geosciences. In a Bayesian approach, NEVA estimates the extreme valu...

It can be a symbol, a sign or an example. The doctors and students in medicine not only fight to prolong the life of the patients but also fight to offer quality to their lives by giving for life. It was not for the first time in my live when I witnessed an act of normality, which, maybe, only the ones who give themselves or will give themselves to assure the health of their kind are able to do...

Devices that integrate multiple functions together are popular in consumer electronic markets. Examples include the cellular phone that takes digital pictures and plays MP3’s, the PDA with cell phone, and multi-function office machines. We describe these multi-function devices as fusion products since they fuse together products which traditionally stand alone in the marketplace. In this paper,...

The story of the widow’s oˆering as found in Mark 12:41–44 has long provided the Church with an example of humble devotion to the Lord. Further, it speaks to the people of God about the true nature of giving. Calvin considered this account as providing “a highly useful doctrine, that whatever men oˆer to God ought to be estimated not by its apparent value, but only by the feeling of the heart, ...