This study contributes to the academic literature on faith-based mutual funds, by offering a comparative investigation of Islamic vs. conventional funds’ performance sensitivity changes in list seventeen relevant attributes, all context Saudi market. The measures investigated are excess return, selectivity and timing. took place from 2011 2015, with sample 200 Active 137 63 conventional. Findin...

OBJECTIVE to analyze in detail the current situation of doctorate training in Nursing in Chile. METHODOLOGY through a historical and contextual analysis of the background to the development of postgraduate education in Nursing, especially at doctorate level. RESULTS aspects that limit development were identified in national institutionalism of the sciences as well as in higher education and...

By the end of 2018, the net asset value in total and the number of Sharia mutual funds in Indonesia is dominated by the Sharia equity fund. Therefore, this study sought to address the factors of internal and external factors affecting the Sharia equity funds’ performance in Indonesia in the period 2010-2018. The fund performance is measured with the Sharpe ratio. The determinants of fund perfor...

Anonymous electronic payment systems are regarded as essential for the protection of the privacy of consumers participating in electronic transactions. In this paper, we present an electronic payment scheme which allows regular customers not only to get special rates from the merchant but also to be kept anonymous to the merchant.

The willingness to pay (WTP) for the maintenance of equity in a local ivermectin distribution scheme in the context of a community financing framework was determined in Toro, Northern Nigeria, using 214 randomly selected heads of households, or their representatives. Though WTP of the respondents for their own households was elicited, the focus of this paper is on WTP to maintain equity in a co...