Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an inevitable function in most manufacturing companies in order to develop their own product niches for their...

introduction:   the aim of this survey was to illustrate statistical information about endodontic research published in pubmed index journals from the different universities of iran. materials and methods: a pubmed search was performed to retrieve the endodontic publications of authors affiliated to different universities of iran. abstracts were reviewed and unrelated articles were omitted. cit...

Downsizing – Can It Lead to Intellectual Capital Performance Anorexia Or Recuperation? S. Mitchell Williams Singapore Management University Contact Details: S.Mitchell Williams Associate Professor of Accountancy #05 – 11, 469 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259756 Phone: +65-6822-0609 Fax: +65-6822-0600 Email: [email protected]

We present an Hilbert space formulation for a set of implied volatility models introduced in [3] in which the authors studied conditions for a family of European call options, varying the maturing time and the strike price T an K, to be arbitrage free. The arbitrage free conditions give a system of stochastic PDEs for the evolution of the implied volatility surface σ̂t(T,K). We will focus on the...

The RePEc Economics library offers the largest distributed source of freely downloadable scientific research reports in the world. RePEc also contains details about Economics institutions, publication outlets and people working in the field. All this data forms a large relational dataset. In this paper we describe HoPEc, a system that allows to implement access control records for personal data...

Marketing experts consider the mobile device as an extremely promising marketing tool as it supports them to cope with their major challenge: getting time and attention from customers. Current mobile marketing research mostly covers success factors and acceptance analysis. Categorization, when addressed, lacks in appropriate foundation and is not linked to objectives at all. In this article we ...

This documents describes the data collection and use for the computation of rankings within RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). This encompasses the determination of impact factors for journals and working paper series, as well as the ranking of authors, institutions and geographic regions. The various ranking methods are also compared, using a snapshot of the data. Journal of Economic Litera...

Since computing power and data storage have become cheaper and more easily available, the number of empirical papers in economics has increased dramatically. Despite the large numbers of empirical papers, however, there is still no unified and machine readable standard for saving regression results: The Open Economics WG would like to fill this gap by proposing and promoting an open standard fo...