Performance appraisal is a process which help shareholders make informed and optimal investment decisions. In recent decades, a long stream of research has devoted particular attention to the importance and impact of financial decisions on firm performance and firm value. The present study thus is primarily concerned with investigating the association between free cash flow and institutional ow...

in this study, government budgets in the last 150 years have been examined based on leviathan state and the selection process theories. using this descriptive-historical method we evaluate the impact of financial behavior of government on development. in the first section of this paper, the concept of government nature has been defined and its influence on public finance is fully explained. mor...

This study aims to improve the accuracy of AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) pavement performance predictions for Iowa pavement systems through local calibration of MEPDG prediction models. A total of 130 representative pavement sites across Iowa were selected. The selected pavement sites represent flexible, rigid, and composite pavement systems throughout Iowa. The req...

Evidence-based practice depends in part on knowledge derived from relevant research. For any given topic, there are likely to be many, potentially relevant studies; a careful appraisal and synthesis of the results of these studies is needed to understand the state of the empirical evidence. Meta-analysis is widely used to combine results of quantitative studies; yet this method is unfamiliar to...

This study aims to quantify and compare the life-cycle environmental, economic and social impacts of two pavement materials: namely 10mm Asphalt Rubber Stone Matrix Asphalt (ARSMA10) and 10mm Polymer Modified Stone Matrix Asphalt (PMSMA10). To achieve this objective, a comparative sustainability framework was developed by: 1) combining the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with pavement maintenance p...

purpose: to compare the effects of short-tem and long-term systemic corticosteroids in the treatment of confirmed ocular toxoplasmosis. methods: this randomized comparative clinical trial was performed on 69 patients with confirmed active ocular toxoplasmosis with typical clinical manifestations. the subjects were randomly assigned to receive either 10 days (group a, 33 cases) or 4-6 weeks (gro...

The practical performance of recycled asphalt obtained from engine oil bottom (REOB) was evaluated by paving a test road base and REOB-recycled mixture in laboratory, where accelerated loading tests with 700,000 cycles were conducted. During loading, pavement temperature, layer strain, skid resistance, rutting monitored. core material tested after to analyze the index change binder compaction d...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is recognized as one of the most comprehensive ways to evaluate the environmental impacts of different strategies associated with a physical feature such as highway pavement structures, bridges and vertical structures. Alternatively, life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is performed by different agencies including Manitoba Infrastructure (MI) to select the most cost-effec...