Development of e-banking has empirically modified the structure and characters of banks’ performance, efficiency, risk and challenges which have also been articulately recognized based on the international best practices. E-banking brazenly accelerates and restructures financial transactions via enhancing technology and expanding the banking services in comparison with conventional banking. Acc...

5 In this paper we study the profitability of car manufacturers in relation to industry-wide prof6 itability targets such as industry averages. Specifically we are interested in whether firms adjust 7 their profitability in the direction of these targets, whether it is possible to detect any such change, 8 and, if so, what the precise nature is of these changes. 9 This paper introduces several ...

The efficiency of feedstuff utilization by ruminal microorganisms and the cow’s genetic ability to convert feed nutrients into milk and milk components are major factors that influence the profitability of a dairy herd. Monensin’s ability to modify the movement of ions across biological membranes leads to alterations in bacterial populations and subsequent changes in the proportion of volatile ...

customer activity has received more attention due to the increase of social network applications. moreover, customer activity could be an answer to the research debate about the significant relationship between retention rate and lifetime profitability of customers. several researchers believe that an increase in the retention rate of customers may enhance their customer lifetime value (clv), o...

Identification of nonpregnant dairy cows early after AI improves reproductive efficiency and the 21-day pregnancy rate by decreasing the interval between AI services thereby increasing the AI service rate (Fricke, 2002). Thus, new technologies to identify nonpregnant dairy cows early after AI may play a key role in management strategies to improve reproductive efficiency and profitability on da...

Combining unbiased forecasts of continuous variables necessarily reduces the error variance below that of the median individual forecast. However, this does not necessarily hold for forecasts of discrete variables, or where the costs of errors are not directly related to the error variance. This paper investigates empirically the benefits of combining forecasts of outperforming shares, based on...

Conservation agriculture (CA) practices are being widely promoted in many areas in sub-Saharan Africa to recuperate degraded soils and improve ecosystem services. This study examined the effects of three tillage practices [conventional moldboard plowing (CT), hand hoeing (MT) and no-tillage (NT)], and three cropping systems (continuous maize, soybean-maize annual rotation, and soybean/maize int...

25 The taxi sector presents many challenges to adequately serve the demand while maximising 26 efficiency and profitability and minimising externalities. Many authors have dealt with the 27 ‘taxi industry’ by modelling and forecasting its activity, usually using limited, incomplete or 28 no trustable data to validate their model. The present paper tackles a different point of view. 29 The appli...

Taxicab service plays a vital role in public transportation by offering passengers quick personalized destination service in a semiprivate and secure manner. Taxicabs cruise the road network looking for a fare at designated taxi stands or alongside the streets. However, this service is often inefficient due to a low ratio of live miles (miles with a fare) to cruising miles (miles without a fare...