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Adaptive layout for operating theatre in hospitals: different mathematical models for optimal layouts

Chraibi, Abdelahad; Osman, Ibrahim H.; Kharraja, Saïd (Springer New York LLC, 2019)

The adaptive layout for operating theatre (ALOT) problem in hospitals seeks to determine the ‘most efficient’ layout placement of a set of health-care operating facilities, corridors and elevators in a designated area ...
Affordances and Information Systems Research

Mesgari, Mostafa; Mohajeri, Kaveh; Azad, Bijan (Association for Computing Machinery, 2023)

The term affordance appears with increasing frequency in the Information Systems (IS) literature. Nevertheless, those who study information technologies/information systems (IT/IS) via the affordance lens often have different ...
Agent-based simulation of west Asian urban dynamics: Impact of refugees

Termos, Ali; Picascia, Stefano; Yorke-Smith, Neil (University of Surrey, 2021)

Rapid international migration of significant populations generates profound implications for countries in West Asia, Europe, and other regions. The motivation of this work is to develop an agent-based model (ABM) to capture ...
Algorithms for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with a resource constraint

Fleszar, Krzysztof; Hindi, K. S. (Elsevier B.V., 2018)

We consider the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with a renewable resource constraint (UPMR). For the two-machine variant of the problem, we propose a very efficient mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) ...
An analysis of net FDI drivers in BRIC countries

Elfakhani, Said M.; Mackie, Wayne E. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2015)

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify the main drivers which can explain the relative success of BRIC countries (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India and China), collectively and individually, in attracting foreign ...
An emergent mechanism of inclusive e-Government design: The interplay of user design input and provider response

Azad, Bijan; Zablith, Fouad (IOS Press BV, 2022)

Open e-Government scholarship is meant to address the twin dimensions of openness: greater transparent access to data and more inclusive participation in design. Extant research, however, rarely addresses the inclusive ...
An Exact Algorithm for the Two-Dimensional Stage-Unrestricted Guillotine Cutting/Packing Decision Problem

Fleszar, Krzysztof (INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2016)

We propose a new exact algorithm for the two-dimensional stage-unrestricted guillotine cutting/packing decision problem, which asks if a set of rectangular items can be cut from a single stock rectangle using guillotine ...
An integrated approach of data envelopment analysis and boosted generalized linear mixed models for efficiency assessment

Bou-Hamad, Imad; Anouze, Abdel Latef; Larocque, Denis (Springer New York LLC, 2017)

Performance evaluation is an important part in the management of any decision-making unit (DMU) as it identifies sources of managerial inefficiencies and provides a policy for inefficient DMUs to improve their efficiency. ...
An international social inclusion index with application in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries

Hassan, Zeinab; Khreich, Wael; Osman, Ibrahim H. (Elsevier Inc., 2022)

No efforts have been made yet to develop a comprehensive social inclusion index for all countries. We propose an international social inclusion index based on eight dimensions. Using this index, we analyze the data available ...
An investment-based explanation of currency excess returns

Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Yamani, Ehab A.; Smallwood, Aaron D. (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)

This paper offers an investment-based explanation for currency excess returns using fundamental macroeconomic drivers emanating from physical investment across countries. To obtain valid factors for our proposed production ...
An operational semantics for the goal life-cycle in BDI agents

Harland, James A.; Morley, David N.; Thangarajah, John; Yorke-Smith, Neil (2014)

A fundamental feature of intelligent agents is their ability to deliberate over their goals. Operating in an environment that may change in unpredictable ways, an agent needs to regularly evaluate whether its current set ...
Antecedents and outcomes of bifurcated compensation in family firms: A multilevel view

Samara, Georges; Jamali, Dima R.; Parada, María José (Elsevier Ltd, 2021)

Through a multilevel view, this article challenges the dominant assumption in the literature suggesting that family employees will receive more compensation than their non-family peers, which will violate the latter group ...
Anti-corruption, Transparency and Accountability: Case Study of Healthcare in the Arab Countries

Hunter, Mostafa; Uwaydah Mardini, Rania; El-Seblani, Arkan; Elsayed, Sammer (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020)

Background: The Arab states suffer from high levels of corruption. The UNDP’s team there developed an approach to tackle corruption and enhance transparency and accountability in healthcare as part of its broader efforts ...
Antitakeover provisions and CEO monetary benefits: Revisiting the E-index

Al-Dah, Bilal; Michael, Amir; Dixon, Rob (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

We analyze and group antitakeover provisions as they relate to CEO's monetary benefits. We specifically focus on the determinants of the six E-index provisions that were proposed by Bebchuk et al. (2009) to conversely ...
Arab-Levantine personality structure: A psycholexical study of modern standard Arabic in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank

Zeinoun, Pia; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Choueiri, Lina; Van De Vijver, Fons J.R. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)

Objective: The debate of whether personality traits are universal or culture-specific has been informed by psycholexical (or lexical) studies conducted in tens of languages and cultures. We contribute to this debate through ...
Are U.K. Citizens Satisfied With E-Government Services? Identifying and Testing Antecedents of Satisfaction

Weerakkody, Vishanth; Irani, Zahir N.; Lee, Habin; Hindi, Nitham Mohammed; Osman, Ibrahim H. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016)

Citizens’ satisfaction is acknowledged as one of the most significant influences for e-government adoption and diffusion. This study examines the impact of information quality, system quality, trust, and cost on user ...
Article corporate social responsibility and rule 144a debt offerings: Empirical evidence

Dbouk, Wassim; Jin, Dawei; Wang, Haizhi; Wang, Jianrong (MDPI AG, 2018)

Rule 144A allows a firm to issue securities without a public registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and only qualified institutional investors can purchase such securities. In this study, ...
Articulations of Health and Poverty Among Women on WIC

Yehya, Nadine A.; Dutta-Bergman, Mohan Jyoti (Routledge, 2015)

With the global financial meltdown, the crisis of poverty has deepened in communities across the United States. This essay reports results from a culture-centered project on fostering spaces for listening to the voices of ...
Audit committee effectiveness and family firms: impact on performance

Al-Okaily, Jihad; Naueihed, Salma (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between audit committee characteristics and firm performance, and whether family ownership and involvement moderate the latter relationship. ...
Audit committee effectiveness and non-audit service fees: Evidence from UK family firms

Al-Okaily, Jihad; BenYoussef, Nourhene (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

This study examines whether the presence of an ineffective audit committee at family and non-family firms can influence the firms’ non-audit service purchases from the incumbent auditor. Using a sample of 1736 observations ...

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