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Data envelopment analysis model for the appraisal and relative performance evaluation of nurses at an intensive care unit

Osman I.H.; Berbary L.N.; Sidani Y.; Al-Ayoubi B.; Emrouznejad A. (NEW YORK233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, 2011)

The appraisal and relative performance evaluation of nurses are very important and beneficial for both nurses and employers in an era of clinical governance, increased accountability and high standards of health care ...
Density based problem space search for the capacitated clustering p-median problem

Ahmadi S.; Osman I.H. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2004)

In the Capacitated Clustering Problem (CCP), a given set of n weighted points is to be partitioned into p clusters such that, the total weight of the points in each cluster does not exceed a given cluster capacity. The ...
Designing for usability of an adaptive time management assistant

Weber J.S.; Yorke-Smith N. (MENLO PK445 BURGESS DRIVE, MENLO PK, CA 94025-3496 USA, 2009)

This case study article describes the iterative design process of an AI-based mixed-initiative calendaring tool with embedded artificial intelligence. We establish the specific types of assistance in which the target user ...
Designing institutions and incentives in hospitals: An organization economics methodology

Eid F. (, 2004)

Recent seminal developments in organization economics, namely the decision rights approach, offer an opportunity to shed new light on an old question, the design of effective institutions. Drawing on conclusions about how ...
Detection of imperative and declarative question-answer pairs in email conversations

Kwong H.; Yorke-Smith N. (AMSTERDAMNIEUWE HEMWEG 6B, 1013 BG AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2012)

Question-answer pairs extracted from email threads are valuable in constructing summaries of the content of the thread, as well as in providing data for semantic-based assistance with email. Previous work dedicated to ...
Determinants of credit spread changes for the financial sector

Dbouk W.; Kryzanowski L. (2010)

Purpose: Most of the credit spread literature deals with the determinants of credit spread changes for individual bonds. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the explanatory power of credit spread changes and their ...
Determinants of diarrhea prevalence in urban slums: A comparative assessment towards enhanced environmental management

El-Fadel M.; Maroun R.; Quba'A R.; Mawla D.; Sayess R.; Massoud M.A.; Jamali I. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2014)

This study relies on a comparative assessment of diarrhea occurrence in two urban slums to identify salient factors influencing case prevalence. Primary data were collected from both areas using a structured closed-ended ...
Determinants of export marketing research in Turkish companies

Koksal M.H. (, 2008)

The success of exporting companies largely depends on their marketing information systems. Acquiring and responding to market information are particularly important in the export marketing context, where changes in the ...
Determinants of Lebanon's ICT export competitiveness: Evaluating a country's readiness to export ICT

Feghali T.; Ahmed Z.U.; Halawani S. (, 2007)

This paper presents an export model which acts as an assessment tool to examine the readiness of a country to export ICT. Based on ASEP's eReadiness Model, indicators were revisited and the model was downsized to a firm's ...
Development-Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility

Jamali, Dima; Karam, Charlotte (Greenleaf Publishing, )
Disclosure Standards, Auditing Infrastructure, and Bribery Mitigation

Khalil S.; Saffar W.; Trabelsi S. (, 2014)

Using a sample of 15,174 firms from 24 countries included in the 2009 World Bank Enterprise Survey, we investigate the impact of disclosure standards and auditing infrastructure on the bribery of public officials to secure ...
Discrete-time survival trees and forests with time-varying covariates: Application to bankruptcy data

Bou-Hamad I.; Larocque D.; Ben-Ameur H. (LONDON1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND, 2011)

The aim of this paper is to propose a new survival tree method for discrete-time survival data with time-varying covariates. This method can accommodate simultaneously time-varying covariates and time-varying effects. The ...
Diversification benefits for bond portfolios

Dbouk W.; Kryzanowski L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2009)

Finance research has focused primarily on the diversification of stock portfolios. Various metrics are used herein to assess the diversification benefits, and the optimal bond portfolio sizes (PSs) for investment opportunity ...
Diversity management rhetoric versus reality: Insights from the Lebanese context

Jamali D.; Abdallah H. (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.; CHELTENHAMGLENSANDA HOUSE, MONTPELLIER PARADE, CHELTENHAM GL50 1UA, GLOS, ENGLAND, 2010)

[No abstract available]
Does religiosity determine affinities to CSR?

Jamali D.; Sdiani Y. (, 2013)

This paper aims at exploring the extent to which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) orientations are influenced by the level of religiosity among business professionals. Previous empirical research has highlighted the ...
Drivers of corporate social responsibility attitudes: The demography of socially responsible investors

Cheah E.-T.; Jamali D.; Johnson J.E.; Sung M.-C. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2011)

Demographic characteristics of socially responsible investors (SRIs) are likely to play a significant role in shaping their perceptions and behaviour concerning corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper identifies ...
Dual-class shares and audit pricing: Evidence from the canadian markets

Khalil S.; Magnan M.L.; Cohen J.R. (SARASOTA5717 BESSIE DR, SARASOTA, FL 34233 USA, 2008)

This paper investigates whether audit fees vary with the wedge between cash flow rights and control rights arising from the presence of dual-class share structures. Dual-class shares exist in firms having two or more classes ...
Dynamic cruise ship revenue management

Maddah B.; Moussawi-Haidar L.; El-Taha M.; Rida H. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2010)

Recently, it has been recognized that revenue management of cruise ships is different from that of airlines or hotels. Among the main differences is the presence of multiple capacity constraints in cruise ships, i.e., the ...
Dynamic pricing for nonperishable products with demand learning

Araman V.F.; Caldentey R. (HANOVER7240 PARKWAY DR, STE 310, HANOVER, MD 21076-1344 USA, 2009)

A retailer is endowed with a finite inventory of a nonperishable product. Demand for this product is driven by a pricesensitive Poisson process that depends on an unknown parameter that is a proxy for the market size. The ...
E-government implementation: A bird's eye view of issues relating to costs, opportunities, benefits and risks

Weerakkody V.; Irani Z.; Lee H.; Osman I.; Hindi N. (, 2013)

After more than a decade of comprehensive research work in the area of electronic government (e-government), no attempt has yet been made to undertake a systematic literature review on the costs, opportunities, benefits ...

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