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Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries
(VGTU, 2020)
This paper investigates the effect of financial flexibility on firm value, on a comparative basis between developed and emerging countries in Europe. Our dataset covers 4,334 companies from 15 developed and 1,436 companies ...
Performance of Combinational Cooperative Detection Method under Realistic Conditions
(IEEE Computer Society, 2020)
Combinational cooperative detection (CCD) is a method where signal energies from multiple secondary users (SUs) are gathered in different combinations in order to reach a unique decision for each secondary user regarding ...
Flexible physical layer based resource allocation for machine type communications towards 6G
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
The exponential growth of Internet of Things applications necessitates the design of next generation cellular systems to provide native support for machine type communications (MTC). While 5G aims at providing this native ...
Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Hydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively ...
True variable-depth milling
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
When tool wears during machining, cost of the process increases. Rapid tool wear leads to even further contributions to process cost and hence must be taken well care of. Among the many forms of tool wear, notch wear is ...
Unveiling the effects of a headscarf ban: Evidence from municipal jobs in Turkey
(Academic Press Inc., 2020)
Religious conservatism is often associated with patriarchal attitudes and deterioration of women's rights. This conventional wisdom has motivated ubiquitous policies that limit public expressions of religion and emphasize ...
The effects of leadership styles on organizational trust and disclosure of unethical behaviors (whistleblowing): A practical research
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Today, the enterprises can hold sustainable competitive advantage only through proper guidance of human capital movement. While management is merely regarded as a medium, leadership also appears as a form of administration, ...
Forecasting Models For Daily Natural Gas Consumption Considering Periodic Variations And Demand Segregation
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
Due to expensive infrastructure and the difficulties in storage, supply conditions of natural gas are different from those of other traditional energy sources like petroleum or coal. To overcome these challenges, supplier ...
Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems
(Routledge, 2020)
Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news ...
How to study ethnic food: Senses, power, and intercultural studies
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2020)
This article gives a broad review of the literature focusing on food, senses, and intercultural relations. Integrating cultural studies literature and concepts into ethnic food studies, it tries to understand the ways in ...