Using count data on Indian joint ventures (JVs) and wholly owned subsidiaries (WOS), we present an empirical analysis of FDI-related ownership choices and their relation with host country characteristics and indicators of transaction costs. Our Negative Binomial regression models offer only weak support for the bargaining perspective, according to which JVs should be more likely if the host cou...

To reap the potential of the Web, mechanisms are required to locate and use available, suitable resources. In [1], a two-level protocol was introduced for that purpose. A first protocol allows the selection of an appropriate version of WOS resources, the WOS Request Protocol (WOSRP). Another protocol, the WOS Protocol (WOSP), allows to locate and use distributed resources, such as services, mac...

Data-ow networks-or object ow networks in their more general form-are a suitable coordination language for distributed applications. Their advantages include easy to understand diagrams, natural parallelism and fault tolerance. Object-ow networks are used for coordination at user level in the context of the WOS. In addition, the implementation is based on WOS services and resources. A basic fra...

This paper addresses the problem of designing weighted order statistic (WOS) lters by employing an objective function given as the Lp norm of the error between the desired signal and the estimated one. The conventional design of WOS lters uses a mean absolute error (MAE) objective function, and as such, it is a special case of the general, Lp norm based design, developed here. In this paper, it...

In the humanities and social sciences, bibliometric methods for the assessment of research performance are (so far) less common. The current study takes a concrete example in an attempt to evaluate a research institute from the area of social sciences and humanities with the help of data from Google Scholar (GS). In order to use GS for a bibliometric study, we have developed procedures for the ...

Background: The purpose of this scientometric investigation was to analyze some features of the international scientific communications in the field of the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. Methods: The publication output on this interdisciplinary topic that had been reflected in three data-bases (Web of Science, MEDLINE and Scopus) for the period from 2009 till 2013 was analyzed. The follo...

We would like to verify the correlation among various citation indicators of 62 Korean scientific journals listed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. From a total of 85 Korean journals listed in both WoS as of January 2013, and 132 journals listed in Scopus as of 2011, 62 Korean journals listed in both citation indices were selected for analysis. Citation index indicators selected for analy...

OBJECTIVE(S) Citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through Scopus (SC), Google Scholar (GS), or ISI web of knowledge (WOS). In the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (IJBMS) in these three resources. MATERIAL AND METHODS The relevant data from SC, GS...

The world wide interconnect network (Internet) , with its huge amount of resources, represents a fertile environment for the execution of applications on remotely connected networks. Recently , a Web operating system (WOS) has been proposed and is currently under development (W OS TM). It would allow some or all of the resources at participating sites to be assigned to those applications submit...

Accurate computation of h indices or other indicators of research impact requires access to databases supplying complete and accurate citation information. The Web of Science (WoS) database is widely used for this purpose and it is generally deemed error-free. This note describes an inaccuracy that seems to affect differentially non-English sources and targets in WoS, namely, “phantom citations...