Productivity growth of the Australian real estate investment trusts
Published in: Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis
Jul 12, 2018
This study aims to evaluate the productivity change of the Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) by using a Balance panel data set which cover 10 AREITs operating in the Australian market from 2004 to 2011. The study use a non-parametric approach Data Envelopment Analysis based analysis to investigate the productivity change. Input-oriented Malmquist indices of productivity change are estimated to measure total factor productivity (TFP) change. The TFP changes are decomposed into the ...
The use of data mining techniques in accounting and finance as a corporate strategic tool: An empirical investigation on banks operating in emerging economies
Published in: International Journal of Economics and Business Research
Jul 05, 2018
Globalisation and recent financial crises have increased the pressures faced by banks operating in emerging economies to maintain their competitive advantages and to insure sustainability. Recent technological advancement paved the way for the use of big data to assist companies in the decision making process. One of the methods exploited by management to make advantage of the huge amount of available information is data mining. This study aims at examining the employment of data mining techniq...
The future of audiovisual Is it going online?
Jul 02, 2018
The present research examines the changes that have occurred within the audiovisual sector upon its gradual accommodation with the internet and cyberspaces, and the way it has been benefiting from the availability of technology in making significant changes, both in terms of form and content. The study will first provide a discussion over the conflicts between the traditional and electronic spaces; and how the audiovisual sector- by virtue of its precedence- is striving to reshape contents i...
A Three-Port Polarization and Pattern Diversity Ring Antenna
Published in: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (Volume: 17, Issue: 7, Pages: 1324 - 1328, 2018)
Jul 01, 2018
Kushmanda Saurav
Nazih Khaddaj Mallat
Yahia Antar
In this letter, a novel design of a three-port antenna exhibiting pattern and polarization diversity characteristics is proposed. The radiating element of the proposed antenna comprises a ring loaded with periodical interdigital capacitors. The selective excitation of the three ports of the antenna enables omnidirectional and dual-polarized broadside radiation patterns in an overlapping bandwidth of 73 MHz (2.574 -2.647 GHz). The mutual coupling between any set of the two ports in the three-por...
The Use of Loanwords in Emirati Arabic According to Speakers’ Gender, Educational Level, and Age
Published in: International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature
Jul 01, 2018
This study aims at identifying the loanwords commonly used in Emirati Arabic (EA), determining their origins and identifying the reasons behind using them. It also investigates the impact of gender, education, and age of speakers of EA on the use of loanwords. To meet these ends, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 90 speakers of EA who were then classified into three groups: 1) gender; females and males, 2) education; educated and uneducated, and 3) age; young and old. The resul...
Evaluating the usefulness of e-learning management system delivery in higher education
Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research
Jun 25, 2018
Learning management systems (LMSs), such as Moodle, has been used by many academic institutions to improve teaching and student learning experience. This paper examines the use of LMS as a course delivery system and an electronic assessment (e-assessment) tool for improving the learning process. This study analyses educators’ perspective on the use of Moodle based on effectiveness, helpfulness, user-friendly interface design, and flexibility in delivering online courses. Quantitative and ...
Oscillation criteria for forced and damped nabla fractional difference equations
Published in: Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications
Jun 20, 2018
Based on the properties of Riemann–Liouville difference and sum operators, sufficient conditions are established to guarantee the oscillation of solutions for forced and damped nabla fractional difference equations. Numerical examples are presented to show the applicability of the proposed results. We finish the paper by a concluding remark.