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Joint optimal determination of process mean, production quantity, pricing, and market segmentation with demand leakage
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Elsevier
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The selection of an optimal process mean is an important problem in production planning and quality control research. Most of the previous studies in the field have analyzed the problem for a fixed exogenous price. However, ...
Impact of terrorist attacks on stock market volatility in emerging markets
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Elsevier B.V.
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We use an event study methodology alongside an improved bootstrapping test to evaluate the impact of terrorist attacks on the volatility of stock markets in 12 MENA countries, and test for regional financial integration. ...
Multispectral image denoising with optimized vector non-local mean filter
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Nowadays, many applications rely on images of high quality to ensure good performance in conducting their tasks. However, noise goes against this objective as it is an unavoidable issue in most applications. Therefore, it ...
التعويض عن وفاة العمل بسبب العمل فى قضاء محكمة التمييز القطرية
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نص المشرع القطري فى قانون العمل رقم 14 لسنة 2004 فى الفصل الحادي عشر والمخصص لإصابات العمل والتعويض عنها فى المادة 110 على أنه: " لورثة العامل الذي يتوفى بسبب العمل، وللعامل الذي يُصاب بإصابة عمل نتج عنها عجز كلي دائم أو ...
Further evidence on the rationality of interest rate expectations: A comprehensive study of developed and emerging economies
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study performs unbiasedness and efficiency tests of three-month and twelve-month ahead interest rate forecasts of one short-term and one long-term security of 10 developed and 20 emerging economies by exploiting a new ...
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper provides evidence of the existence of diversification benefits in international stock markets when oil producing countries are included in a global portfolio. Moreover, it examines whether recent oil shocks and ...
Breaks or long range dependence in the energy futures volatility: Out-of-sample forecasting and VaR analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to propose an empirical strategy that allows the discrimination between true and spurious long memory behaviors. That strategy is based on the comparison between the estimated long memory parameter ...
Erosive wear performance of API X42 pipeline steel
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
The need to transport petroleum products through pipelines has resulted in the increased erosion of the pipeline materials used in the petroleum industry. In this study, dry erosion test was performed using sand blaster ...
Jointly identifying opinion mining elements and fuzzy measurement of opinion intensity to analyze product features
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Opinion mining mainly involves three elements: feature and feature-of relations, opinion expressions and the related opinion attributes (e.g. Polarity), and feature-opinion relations. Although many works have emerged to ...
The simultaneous estimation of credit growth, valuation, and stability of the Gulf Cooperation Council banking industry
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
We use a simultaneous equations model to study the relationship between bank stability, performance and credit growth for 59 GCC banks over the period 2004-2012. To derive our results, we use a dynamic panel estimation ...