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Knowledge Representation and Processing in Web Based Intelligent Tutoring. Artificial Intelligence in Education - Open Learning Environments: New Computational Technologies to Support Learning, Exploration and Collaboration
(Conference)This paper presents an Internet based intelligent tutoring applications architecture to enable co-operative teaching and learning in numeric disciplines. The architecture allows sharing of resources available world wide ... -
Latin-American Stock Market Dynamics and Co-movement
(Article)With the economic relevance of the relationships among emerging and frontier equity markets becoming increasingly significant, this paper investigates co-movement among returns from six Latin-American stock markets [Mexico ... -
Leverage and firm investment: the role of information asymmetry and growth
(Article)This paper demonstrates how financial leverage impacts firm investment and the extent to which this relationship is conditional on the level of information asymmetry as well as growth. The paper relies on data from 2403 ... -
Leverage and performance: Do size and crisis matter?
(Article)Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to the capital structure literature by examining the impact of financial leverage on firm performance and also the extent to which firm size and crisis matter in the leverage–performance ... -
Living up to the Busan Partnership for effective development co-operation? Assessing Government Financial Systems
(Conference)Experience shows that when low and middle income country national administrative systems are bypassed aid has not been effective and sustainable (OECD, 2012) hence the start of the millennium saw a new concerted effort to ... -
Making sustainable development sustainable.
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Managerial Resilience and Performance: A Human Capital Approach
(Conference)Managerial resilience is a strategic resource within the contingencies of organizing in small businesses. In this regard, the notion of resilient human capital has come to dominate the contemporary discourse on the ... -
Managing earnings using classification shifting: Novel evidence from Jordan
(Article)In response to McVay calls for more research to provide additional cross-sectional tests of classification shifting, the current paper examines whether Jordanian public companies engage in earnings management through ... -
Mandatory Disclosure, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Cost of Equity Capital: UK Evidence of a U-shaped Relationship
(Article)This paper examines the effects of disclosing greenhouse gas (GHG) information mandatorily on the cost of equity capital (COC) using a longitudinal unbalanced panel database of the UK’s FTSE 350 firms for the period 2011 ... -
Market Sentiment and Firm Investment Decision-Making
(Article)While research on factors driving corporate investment decisions has blossomed, knowledge related to the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) market sentiment on investment decision outcomes is lacking. In this study, we ... -
Measuring Performance of Non-profit organisations: Evidence from Large Charities,
(Article)How to measure performance in charitable organisations continues to excite interest among academics and practitioners. Despite the intellectual interest, little consensus has emerged as to what are the best measures of ... -
A Metamodel for Designing an Intelligent Tutoring Systems Authoring Tool
(Article)Previous intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) and ITS authoring studies predominantly simulated and evaluated artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and cognitive architectures/notions in educational domains. Current research ... -
Microfinance and Necessity Entrepreneurship: The Ghanaian Experience
(Book chapter)Microfinance which refers to the issuance of microloans and the delivery of other related financial services to mostly necessity entrepreneurs has remained a major developmental tool across the developing world. With its ... -
The Mimosa Project Ltd.
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Modelling and forecasting the kurtosis and returns distributions of financial markets: irrational fractional Brownian motion model approach
(Article)This paper reports a new methodology and results on the forecast of the numerical value of the fat tail(s) in asset returns distributions using the irrational fractional Brownian motion model. Optimal model parameter values ...