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A Discussion of Financial Regulations' Impact on the Subprime Crisis: Implications for Financial Markets
(PREMIER PUBLISHING, INC, 2010)
The financial crisis sparked by the US subprime is now posing a serious threat to global financial markets, with its severity intensifying as widening losses and a liquidity crunch push some financial institutions to the ...
Minimizing the total flow time in a flow shop with blocking by using hybrid harmony search algorithms
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010)
In this paper, three hybrid harmony search (HS) algorithms, namely, hybrid harmony search (hHS) algorithm, hybrid globalbest harmony search (hgHS) algorithm and hybrid modified globalbest harmony search (hmgHS) algorithm, ...
Benefits of semantic approach in the learning environment
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011)
Mobile devices are mainly lack of regular user interfaces that facilitate the human-computer interaction and the access to network resources. However, almost all commercial applications contain their mobile versions. If ...
The effects of organizational training on organizational commitment
(WILEY, 2010)
This empirical study investigated the impact of organizational training on employee commitment focusing on employees' emotional and affective responses towards their organization. Organizational training is conceptualized ...
A local-best harmony search algorithm with dynamic subpopulations
(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010)
This article presents a local-best harmony search algorithm with dynamic subpopulations (DLHS) for solving the bound-constrained continuous optimization problems. Unlike existing harmony search algorithms, the DLHS algorithm ...
An ensemble of discrete differential evolution algorithms for solving the generalized traveling salesman problem
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2010)
In this paper, an ensemble of discrete differential evolution algorithms with parallel populations is presented. In a single populated discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm, the destruction and construction (DC) ...
How the education affects female labor force? Empirical evidence from Turkey
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2010)
This article investigates the major issues of females in Turkey and the characteristics required of school improvement with many educational reforms they have faced from the perspectives of women. It is a brief overview ...
A Copula-Based BRDF Model
(WILEY, 2010)
In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for modeling surface reflection. We focus on using a family of probability distributions called Archimedean copulas as BRDF models. The Archimedean representation has an attractive ...
The organizational roles of marketing and marketing managers
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2010)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to design a comprehensive responsibilities inventory for today's marketing managers, from which it develops factual inferences for the role of marketing in corporations. Design/meth ...
Dalyan Paradise
(SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2010)