A Mixed Prediction Model of Ground Subsidence for Civil Infrastructures on Soft Ground by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kiyoyuki Kaito

“…The estimation of ground subsidence processes is an important subject for the asset management of civil infrastructures on soft ground, such as airport facilities. …”
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Populações tradicionais e inclusão social no Brasil:Um paralelo entre as políticas de acesso à terra e à educação superior por indígenas e quilombolas by Ana Lúcia Aguiar Melo, José Luiz de Moura Filho

“…The land has always been an asset targeted by capital, and education has become more and more commodified, with the presence, even, of international conglomerates in the Brazilian system. …”
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Factor Investment or Feature Selection Analysis? by Jifang Mai, Shaohua Zhang, Haiqing Zhao, Lijun Pan

“…Additionally, we consistently identified price changes, earnings per share, net assets per share, and excess returns as key factors influencing predictive signals. …”
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Multidimensional Performance Evaluation Using the Hybrid MCDM Method: A Case Study in the Turkish Non-Life Insurance Sector by Mehmet Zafer Taşcı

“…The results of the MEREC and ENTROPY procedures indicate that the number of agencies, asset size, technical profit, and return on assets are generally effective criteria for the multidimensional performance of non-life insurance companies. …”
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Estimación del costo del patrimonio para países del MILA durante el periodo 2016-2021 utilizando el modelo CAPM by Raúl Alberto Cortés Villafradez, Edgar Ricardo Jiménez Méndez

“… Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar el costo de oportunidad del inversionista (Ke) para los países miembros del MILA en el periodo 2016-2021, usando el modelo CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model). Para esto fue fundamental realizar una revisión bibliográfica que justificara plenamente la forma de determinar el valor de los parámetros usados de cada una de las variables del modelo CAPM. …”
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The Management System Framework of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Based on Strategic Flexible Management by Lihua Zhao, Jing Wang, Zhen Li

“…The experimental results show that asset specificity, organizational structure stability, cultural organization memory, and entrepreneur cognitive inertia are the main factors that promote the formation of strategic rigidity. …”
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Reinsurance in the Supplementary Health: A Counterfactual Study on the Impacts of Reinsurance Treaties Adoption by Healthcare Plans Operators in Brazil by Caio Alexandrino Costa Areias, João Vinícius de França Carvalho

“…In this context, risk transfer mechanisms are presented as options for financial loss mitigation and asset protection. Reinsurance is one of them, but, due to legal understandings, its adoption has been restricted to insurance companies since 2009 and forbidden for other types of operators, such as cooperatives, self-management, and philanthropic enterprises. …”
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Dalla voce alla carta: l’esperienza dei collettivi femministi nelle pagine di «Differenze» by Federica Paoli

“…The idea was, in fact, to give coverage to the differences in feminist practices that in 1976 had become a reality for the movement, differences that at the same time could have been a potential asset and a cause of disintegration. The magazine was created with the ambition of serving as a flexible forum for the exchange of information and documents, and was set up as an instrument that could adapt to the needs of each collective and maintain the typical circularity of discourse in the small feminist group. …”
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Presenting a model to explain unfavorable risk and favorable risk according to psychological variables in predicting market fluctuations in the Iranian capital market. by Hasan Rezaeikangi, Mahdi Mohammad Bagheri, Hojat Babaei, Ali Raeispour Rajabali

“…On the other hand, favorable risk shows the probability or potential of increasing the yield of an asset or investment, based on a percentage or amount, which can be a measure of the attractiveness or desirability of that asset, and the higher it is, the more attractive the investment (Nikoo et al, 2020). …”
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Presenting a Prediction Model for CEO Compensation Sensitivity using Meta-heuristic Algorithms (Genetics and Particle Swarm) by Saeed Khaljastani, Habib Piri, Reza Sotoudeh

“…Finally, the first data mining model, which uses the cost behavior parameter of asset return changes, delivered the weakest results. …”
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Evaluation of prognosis solutions for wind turbine using multi agent simulation of maintenance business by Junya WATANABE, Toshiaki KONO

“…The change trends in availability by introducing prognosis solutions can be explained by both the reduction in asset failures and the resource status of maintenance workers. …”
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Enhancing Credit Risk Decision-Making in Supply Chain Finance With Interpretable Machine Learning Model by Guanglan Zhou, Shiru Wang

“…The results indicated that the asset-liability ratio, cash ratio, and quick ratio notably influence credit risk. …”
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Implementation of Pension Funds Survival Strategies in a Hyperinflationary Economy. A Case of Pepukai Assurance Company by Munashe T. ZIYAMBI, Newman WADESANGO

“…The analysis identifies several critical factors influencing the success of pension fund strategies, including decreased purchasing power, heightened market and investment risks, political instability, and challenges in asset allocation and liability management. Although the company’s strategies such as effective risk management, diversification, currency hedging, skilled management, and client education were implemented, their efficacy was undermined by current hyperinflation. …”
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Characteristics of Intrapreneurs in Scale-Intensive Service Firms by Katja Maria Hydle, Tor Helge Aas, Karl Joachim Breunig

“…The findings suggest that the involvement of internal professionals is an asset when new scale-intensive services are developed, and that internal professionals act as intrapreneurs when they are involved in the development of radically new scale-intensive services. …”
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A multi-spectral and hyperspectral image dataset for evaluating chemical traits and the water status of avocado, olive and grape through leaf dehydration under laboratory condition... by Juan Sebastian Estrada, Rodrigo Demarco, Ciarán Miceal Johnson, Matias Zañartu, Andres Fuentes, Fernando Auat Cheein

“…This dataset is a valuable asset for developing tools in the field of precision agriculture and assessing the general health status of vegetation.…”
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PyPortOptimization: A portfolio optimization pipeline leveraging multiple expected return methods, risk models, and post-optimization allocation techniques by Rushikesh Nakhate, Harikrishnan Ramachandran, Amay Mahajan

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The End Justifies the Means? The Impact of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy on Citizens’ Trust by Moritz Rehm, Martin Ulrich

“…Since 2010, the European Central Bank (ECB) has established a range of unconventional monetary policies in the context of several crises, including cheap and long-term refinancing operations and several forms of asset purchases. This ECB action has been legally and politically challenged, raising the question as to how the public has perceived the ECB’s mandate widening. …”
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Capital structure of Portuguese hotel firms: a structural equation modelling approach by Fernanda Matias, Leonor Salsa, Carlos Miguel Afonso

“…The results also point to the importance of collateral in accessing credit and the lesser impact of asymmetric information pertaining to tangible asset value and firm size. The results suggest small firms find it difficult to contract loans, which can somewhat limit their growth and performance.…”
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Reinforcement Learning with Probabilistic Boolean Network Models of Smart Grid Devices by Pedro Juan Rivera Torres, Carlos Gershenson García, María Fernanda Sánchez Puig, Samir Kanaan Izquierdo

“…Correct system operation involves those activities and novel methodologies to detect, classify, and isolate faults and failures and model and simulate processes with predictive algorithms and analytics (using data analysis and asset condition to plan and perform activities). …”
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED CEMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Adebowale OGUNSOLA

“…The data obtained were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression method, and it was statistically observed that corporate social responsibility has a positive, but negligible effect on return on asset. It was also observed that the effect of corporate social responsibility on earnings per share is positive and substantial. …”
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