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Development Of A Sustainable Water Resource Financing Mathematical Model For Donors And End-Users, Sahar Zavareh

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Rural villages and underdeveloped communities represent the largest group challenged by poor water supply and sanitation with inequalities in resources to adequately implement potential solutions and even more with their high risk level of financing, funding is particularly challenging for water projects. Innovative financing alone will not eliminate the burdens of rural villages and underdeveloped communities. The purpose of this thesis is to address the lack of sustainable water financing of water projects in rural areas using a novel framework of a mathematical model based on "system dynamics" using optimal feedback control theory to maximize the performance of a water …

기업 간 제휴 활동이 제휴 성과로 이어지기 위한 선행요인에 관한 연구, Seong Ho Kang, Ha Young Kang, Heung Soo Park

Asia Marketing Journal

Issues of how firms form collaborative inter-firm alliances, how they nurture the alliance relationships as meaningful ones, and how they evolve and manage collaborations in turbulent market environments deserve increasing research attention. To contribute to filling this void, this study conceptualizes an alliance orientation as a firm`s capabilities to help achieve an advantageous alliance performance to its rivals and based on this concept, demonstrates specific process for a successful alliance performance. First, this study empirically explores the influence of a new construct, alliance orientation, on firms` alliance performance. Second, the concept of alliance creativity as a positional mediation variable between …

The Behavior And Determinants Of Stock Market Index In Indonesia, Gantiah Wuryandani

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This research proves that the movement of Stock Market Index (JSX) in Indonesia does not follow random walk. Therefore, certain variables in inancial market inluence the movement of JSX. VECM and ECM testings show that regional index in ASEAN countries and Hongkong as well as exchange rate signiicantly affect JSX movement. This indicates a strong contagious effect of the stock market in Asia on the Indonesian stock market, which joined the exchange rate effects concurrently. On the other hand, monetary policy through Bank Indonesia rate (BI rate) less strongly affects the movement of JSX, albeit signiicant. Implicitly, this indicates that …

Investors’ Behavior Placing Orders In Indonesia Stock Exchange, Ghazali Syamni

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

The objective of this research is to analyze the behavior pattern of trading volume at opening and closing of market in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The behaviors pattern is structured by investors' decision in placing buy and sell orders. This research used intraday data transaction history-corporate edition demand and order history stock which included in pre-opening and LQ-45 in Indonesia Stock Exchange on March, April, and Mei 2005. The result of this research is investor place bigger order on the opening and closing markets than period trading. This shows that they are more carefully and more conservative in doing trades on …

Comparison In Measuring Effectiveness Of Momentum And Contrarian Trading Strategy In Indonesian Stock Exchange, Rizky Luxianto

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This paper wants to explore the effectiveness of momentum or contrarian strategy in Indonesian Stock Exchange using different methods in measuring the performance. The point of momentum or contrarian strategy is selecting winner (stocks with highest gain) or loser stocks (stocks with highest loss) and then buy or sell it based on the research result. This research employed three methods in measuring performance to select winner and loser stocks. The irst method used cross section relative return, while the second method used cross section relative return plus risk component (return divided by standard deviation), and the third method employed historical …

명화(名畵)에서 유발된 감정이 차용된 제품과 제품속성 평가에 미치는 영향, Han Ku Kim, Bo Hee Jung, Wu Jin Chu

Asia Marketing Journal

In recent years, a new way of differentiating product design has emerged ― better known as ``masterpiece marketing,`` this is a strategy where famous art pieces are borrowed on to product designs. Because the recent trends of well-being and LOHAS have encouraged the consumers` desires to enjoy culture and live a more opulent lifestyle, famous and notable paintings have grown to be more of "approachable masterpieces" to the public. As a strategy intended to develop a new consumerism, while still prioritizing customers` values and their satisfaction, companies have been drawn to this new type of marketing. The current consumption society …

소비재 제품의 제품 추구혜택, 구매체험이 소비자- 브랜드 관계에 미치는 영향, Sung Joon Yoon, Hyoung Ju Lee, Young Mi Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

This study tried to investigate the relationships among the sought benefits, consumer-brand relationship and purchase experiences with regard to cosmetics, based on Scmitt (1999)`s Strategic Experiential Modules (SEM) which classified consumer`s purchase experiences into five modules (sense, feel, think, act & relate) and provide strategic implications based on the results. According to the result, among the sought benefits of cosmetics, functionality had the most significant impact on purchase experience, and brand affected "sense" and "think-act-relate" experiential modules. Fashion was only found to affect "feel" module. Also, the "think-act-relate" module positively affected all components of consumer-brand relationship. And, "love and passion" …

중국인의 타인의식형 집단문화와 위조명품 브랜드 구매행동, Joo Ho Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

The Chinese counterfeits has begun to gain great attention recently because of the drastic increase in its volume. The consumption of counterfeit harms to manufacturer who spend millions of dollars to create and develop new product. The counterfeits in Chinese can cause international dispute and lower national reputation. The purpose of this study were to examine if the buyers of counterfeits tend to care more about interpersonal relationship than non-buyers among Chinese. Data were gathered by surveying Chinese consumer living in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou metropolitan area using convenient sampling, and 480 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. In …

스폰서십의 설득의도성에 대한 소비자 반응, Myung Suh Lim, Hae Ryong Kim, Moon Kyu Lee

Asia Marketing Journal

Over the last twenty years, sponsorship has been used very widely as an important marketing tool that enhances corporate image. Since it has proven to be effective in creating positive perceptions of the company, many marketers have sponsored a variety of consumer-related activities. However, sponsorship has also been criticized as it can be related to ambush marketing and excessive commercialism which trigger negative consumer responses. Unlike the existing study on the sponsorship marketing, this study intends to investigate its negative effects. The study was conducted based on the persuasion knowledge model which was proposed by Fristed and Wright (1994) and …

Causal Nexus Between Stock Price, Demand For Money, Interest Rate, Foreign Institutional Investment, And Exchange Rates In India: A Post Subprime Crisis Analysis, Iti Vyas, Narayan Prasad, Alok Kumar Mishra

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This paper makes an attempt to empirically examine the causal nexus between stock price, demand for money, interest rates, foreign institutional investment and exchange rates in India in the post subprime mortgage crisis period. The study employed Granger causality test, Vector Auto Regression and Johansen Maximum Likelihood procedure to examine the short run and long run dynamic interaction among the above mentioned variables for the period January 1993 to May 2009. The major indings of the study are: stock return affects exchange rate return, net foreign institutional investment and growth of demand for money. Growth of demand for money, in …

Moon Effect On Paciic Basin Stock Markets, Rayenda Khresna Brahmana, Chee Wooi Hooy, Zamri Ahmad

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This is an empirical study on the inluences of moon on seven stock markets, which are Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States, Philippines, Japan, and Thailand. The period is from January 1999 until December 2009 in daily basis. This study investigates the relationship between moon phase and market returns. We divided moon phases into new moon and full moon. While literature mention the relationship between moon phase and market returns, our research reject the null hypothesis in regression analysis. However, the descriptive catches the indication and conirmed previous research. It also proposes that the market is still rational and not …

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, July 26-28, 2011, Seattle, Wa; Highlights (Asb) Meeting, July 26-28, 2011, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Agenda, Auditing Standards Board, July 26-28, 2011, Meeting Seattle, Washington, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Lu Named ‘Great College To Work For’ Second Straight Year, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Nfl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Today was Day 129 of America Held Hostage. No, the Ayatollah Komenhi and his band of fanatical hostage takers have not returned. This is not the ABC television news mantra that was featured during the Iranian Hostage crisis and spawned “Nightline” and made a celebrity out of Ted Koppel. This was something far more significant.

Advanced Meeting Facilitation Techniques, Carol A. Watson, Wendy Moore

Presentations

As many librarians learned in last year's AALL presentation on facilitation, a well-facilitated meeting can transform a regular work session into an extraordinarily productive event. Participants learned that a well-crafted agenda, thoughtful ground rules, optimal meeting space, and detailed minutes can all set the stage for a successful meeting.

However, meetings can still go awry. A poorly facilitated meeting can make everyone dread meetings even if the meeting has been well-planned. Managing or facilitating behaviors is the final essential ingredient for success. Have you ever been in a meeting that is monopolized by one individual? Or someone offers a suggestion …

Networks - Ii: Error Estimation In Angle Of Arrival In Smart Antenna, Sangita Lalchand, Muhammad Mazhar Manzoor, Amir Ijaz, Imran Ahmed Awan, Asad Ali Siddique

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Rapidly growing demand in mobile communication system required technology which will provide minimum errors and maximize SNR in a particular angle/direction. Smart antenna has a system for directed a beam towards desired angle/direction and suppress/cancel interference from undesired angle/direction. MUSIC (Multiple Signal Classification) has capability to estimate number of signals in an array and angle/direction of arrival of desired signal. ESPRIT (Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques) is used for the estimation of direction of arrival of multiple sets of identical doublets, provides parallel processing. This Paper provides comparative analysis and simulation of angle of arrival (AOA) estimation, …

Image Processing – I: Morphological And Gradient Based Fingerprint Image Segmentation, M. Usman Akram, Anaum Ayaz, Junaid Imtiaz

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

For personal identification the use of fingerprint identification systems is mostly common. First step for an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) is the segmentation of fingerprint from the acquired image. Extraction of region of interest (ROI) from the desired fingerprint impression is the main purpose of segmentation. In this paper, we present a new technique for fingerprint segmentation using morphological operations and modified gradient based technique. The distinct feature of our technique is that it gives high accuracy for fingerprint segmentation even for low quality fingerprint images. The proposed algorithm is applied on standard fingerprint databases, FVC2002 and FVC2004. Experimental …

Image Processing – I: Pointing And Target Selection Of Object Using Color Detection Algorithm Through Dsp Processor Tms320c6711, Waseem Ahmed, M. Irfan, Mr. Muzammil, Mr. Yaseen

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In the field of robotic and image vision technologies, the embedded computing and optimization of the image processing algorithm is quite significant in order to provide the real time processing. In the current era, for making the real time system for such high extensive computation and processing for providing the high speed and real time standalone system, several industrial giants continuously providing the solutions which are in the form of dedicated DSP processors and generalized FPGAs. Beside such high speed processor implementation, the image processing based algorithm plays significant role in machine vision based solution for industries, robotic and field …

Application Of Ict: A Comparative Analysis Of Power And Device Utilization Of Ldpc And Turbo Encoders, Sohaib A. Qazi, Samra Kahkashan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Today, the exponentially emergent requirements for high performance communication systems operating in noisy environments arise the need of high data rate with error free communication. Due to this reason, design of channel encoders becomes critical and a performance metric is required to qualify encoder for optimized solution. In this paper, we present two encoding techniques i.e. Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) and Turbo encoder. These techniques are evaluated on the basis of FPGA resource utilization and power consumption. Post PAR simulation results show that Low Density Parity Check encoder is more efficient in terms of through put, resource utilization and …

Image Processing – I: Automated System For Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Improved Segmentation And Gabor Wavelets, Amna Saeed, Anam Tariq, Usman Jawaid

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

This research revolves around the fingerprint image enhancement. It is used for automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) for extracting the best quality fingerprint images. Accurate feature extraction and identification is the basic theme of this enhancement. This paper is on the fingerprint image enhancement using wavelets. Wavelets are famous for their special localization property and orientation flow estimation. The proposed technique is basically comprises of three main steps: segmentation followed by image sharpening and then Gabor wavelet filtering. Segmentation distinguishes between image background and foreground which in turn reduces processing time. Our sharpening stage of enhancement algorithm sharpens the edges …

Application Of Ict: Potential Of Cloud Computing Architecture, Saira Begum, Muhammad Khalid Khan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Cloud computing is a massively central advancement in the technique that businesses and users devour and work on computing. It's a elementary modify to an prepared model in which applications don't subsist out their lives on a specific section of hardware and in which possessions are more supplely deployed than was the historical standard. It's a primary shift to expansion and utilization model that replaces hard-wired, proprietary associations surrounded by software components and the clients of those components with unimportant Web services and Web-based software admittance. As difficulty under the virtualization is how to allocate resources to every application on-demand …

Image Processing – I: Automated System For Macula Detection In Digital Retinal Images, Maryam Mubbashar, Anam Usman, M. Usman Akram

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In the field of medicines, medical image processing plays a vital role to detect the abnormalities of eye or eye diseases like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Macular degeneration is one of the medical conditions that affect the vision of elder people. If not detected in early stages it causes loss of eye sight. This paper presents an automated system for the localization and detection of macula in digital retinal images. In this paper, macula is first localized by making use of localized optic disc centre and enhanced blood vessels. Finally macula is detected by taking the distance from center of …

Artificial Intelligence - I: Fuzzy Logic Based Robust Pole-Placement Controller For Dc-Dc Buck Converter, Ghulam Abbas, Umar Farooq, Muhammad Usman Asad

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

This paper describes the fuzzy logic based robust pole-placement controller for the buck converter working in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM). The converter operates at a switching frequency of 500 KHz. Pole-placement controller does not show good robustness to the load variations and the change in supply and reference voltages. In order to improve the static and dynamic properties, pole-placement controller supported by decomposed PID fuzzy algorithm is investigated. The performance of both the controllers, pole-placement and optimal pole-placement, is compared and conclusions are drawn. It will be shown that optimal control shows better dynamic performance. MATLAB/SIMULINK based simulation results validate …

Artificial Intelligence – I: Adaptive Automated Teller Machines — Part I, Ghulam Mujtaba, Tariq Mahmood

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

During the past few years, the banking sector has started providing a variety of services to its customers. One of the most significant of such services has been the introduction of the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) for providing online support to bank customers. The use of ATMs has reached its zenith in every developed country, and thousands of ATM transactions are occurring on a daily basis. In order to increase the customers' satisfaction and to provide them with more user-friendly ATM interfaces, it becomes important to mine the ATM transactions to discover useful patterns about the customers' interacting behaviors. In …

Artificial Intelligence – I: A Preliminary Framework For Human-Agent Communication In Electronic Negotiations, Moez Ur Rehman, Nosheen Riaz

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Electronic negotiations are business negotiations conducted via electronic means using information and communications technologies (ICT). Two dominant types of electronic negotiation systems are automated negotiation systems for software agents and negotiation support systems (NSSs) for humans. However, the integration of two types for human-agent negotiations is an important task. In this paper, an extended communication model for human-agent business negotiations is presented. For this purpose, the underlying communication models of automated negotiations and NSSs are analyzed. The extended communication model is based on a common negotiation ontology which captures the negotiation agenda and paves the way for such hybrid communication, …

The Impact Of Climate Change On Capital Structure And Firm Value, Sandra Dow

2011 12th International Conference of the Society for Global Business and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Smart Cities: Addressing Sustainability, Ravi Krishnaswamy

2011 12th International Conference of the Society for Global Business and Economic Development

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Company Perspectives, Principles And Practices, Evelyn Wong

2011 12th International Conference of the Society for Global Business and Economic Development

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Emerging Funding Models For Urban Infrastructure. A Case Study Of Urban Water Supply From India, Nv Krishna

2011 12th International Conference of the Society for Global Business and Economic Development

No abstract provided.