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Efficiency analysis of emergency departments in metropolitan areas
(Elsevier, 2020)
The demand in the healthcare industry is increasing exponentially due to aging population of the world and this is leading to a rapid increase in the cost of healthcare. The emergency departments of the hospitals are the ...
Does intuitive mindset influence belief in God? A registered replication of Shenhav, Rand and Greene (2012)
(SOC Judgment & Decision Making, 2020)
In 2012, two independent groups simultaneously demonstrated that intuitive mindset enhances belief in God. However, there is now some mixed evidence on both the effectiveness of manipulations used in these studies and the ...
Exploring the Impact of Sustainability on Corporate Financial Performance Using Discriminant Analysis
(MDPI, 2020)
The impact of sustainability on corporate financial performance has been an important subject of both academic and professional debate since the 1990s. However, there is a lack of consensus in the literature, and studies ...
Efficiency analysis of Black sea container seaports: application of an integrated MCDM approach
(Routledge, 2020)
The current paper carries out an examination about the selection of the proper container seaport, which in the Black sea region. This paper focuses on a research question. Is it possible to apply multi-criteria decision-making ...
Semantic and syntactic interoperability for agricultural open-data platforms in the context of IoT using crop-specific trait ontologies
(MDPI AG, 2020)
In recent years, Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based applications have been used in various domains such as health, industry and agriculture. Considerable amounts of data in diverse formats are collected from wireless sensor ...
Customer Participation Variation and Its Impact on Customer Service Performance: Underlying Process and Boundary Condition
(Sage Publications, 2020)
Drawing on the customer participation (CP) literature, this research proposes that CP variation is the degree to which employees perceive variability across customers with regard to customers sharing information, time, and ...
A Multi-Objective Stochastic Model for an Earthquake Relief Network
(Wiley-Hindawi, 2020)
Earthquake relief network involves storage and distribution of relief aid to people in need. In this paper, a new stochastic multi-objective mixed integer mathematical model is developed and implemented in Kadikoy municipality ...
Financial inclusion and bank stability: evidence from Europe
(Routledge Journals, 2020)
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 piqued the interest of policymakers worldwide, prompting various initiatives to stabilize the financial system and advance financial inclusion. However, few studies have considered their ...
The critical point of a sigmoidal curve
(Babeș-Bolyai University, 2020)
Let y(t) be a monotone increasing curve with lim(t ->+/-infinity) y((n))(t) = 0 for all n and let t(n) be the location of the global extremum of the nth derivative y((n))(t). Under certain assumptions on the Fourier and ...
Metamorphic Leaves
(Mıt Press, 2020)
This article introduces an algorithm influenced by Goethe's concept of metamorphosis capable of generating a wide range of parametric leaf forms. Metamorphosis is defined as alternating stages of expansion and contraction ...