Social trust is one of the foundations for social order in society. Trust in any organization is affected by various factors such as customer satisfaction, service quality, staff skill and taking into account the customer orientation and service receivers’ satisfaction principles. This research seeks to study the sociological study of social trust of the insured population of social security or...

The purpose of this note is to bring update results on boundary value problems on Lipschitz domains in R or C. We first discuss the Dirichlet problem, the Neumann problem and the d-Neumann problem in a bounded domain in R. These problems are the prototypes of coercive (or elliptic ) boundary value problems when the boundary of the domain is smooth. When the domain is only Lipschitz, solutions t...

R-automata are nite state machines extended with counters which can be incremented or reset to zero along the transitions. The universality question asks whether there is a constant D such that all words are accepted by some run along which no counter exceeds D. It has been shown in [AKY08] that this question is decidable. In this paper, we add one more operation to R-automata, namely the opera...

Abstract The imputeTS package specializes on univariate time series imputation. It offers multiple state-of-the-art imputation algorithm implementations along with plotting functions for time series missing data statistics. While imputation in general is a well-known problem and widely covered by R packages, finding packages able to fill missing values in univariate time series is more complica...

As the front-end to product and system lifecycles, research and development activities serve as engines of value creation. By nature, though, R&D involves significant uncertainty. As such, it often is viewed as an investment problem, whereby funds are invested in ventures under risk, with the hope of achieving future value. This paper investigates the use of organizational simulation to analyze...

Phone segmentation in ASR is usually performed indirectly by Viterbi decoding of HMM output. Direct approaches also exist, e.g., blind speech segmentation algorithms. In either case, performance of automatic speech segmentation algorithms is often measured using automated evaluation algorithms and used to optimize a segmentation system’s performance. However, evaluation approaches reported in l...

The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledgebased environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and distribution. From the other direction to surviving in the highly competitive industry, requires strategies to c...

We prove R-sectoriality or, equivalently, Lp-maximal regularity for a class of operators on cylindrical domains of the form Rn−k × V , where V ⊂ Rk is a domain with compact boundary, Rk, or a half-space. Instead of extensive localization procedures, we present an elegant approach via operator valued multiplier theory, which takes advantage of the cylindrical shape of both, the domain and the op...

This paper develops an empirical approach using econometric techniques for panel data which aims to contribute to the reduction/elimination of the deviation between the book and market value of firms. Based on 20 of the firms with the largest number of patents granted between 1996 and 2006, the results show that: (i) the increase in the return on equity following from an increase in the share o...