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Cloud Computing as a Catalyst in STEM Education

Kumar, Vikas; Sharma, Deepika - In: International Journal of Information and Communication … 13 (2017) 2, pp. 38-51

The under representation of students in STEM disciplines creates big worries for the coming demands of STEM occupations. This requires new strategies to make curriculum interesting to enhance student's engagement in learning. Technology integration in curriculum makes more interesting and...

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Securely Communicating with an Optimal Cloud for Intelligently Enhancing a Cloud's Elasticity

Kirthica, S.; Sridhar, Rajeswari - In: International Journal of Intelligent Information … 14 (2018) 2, pp. 43-58

users' needs, called elasticity. This feature is limited to the cloud's physical resources. This article proposes to enhance … the elasticity of a cloud in an intelligent manner by communicating with an optimal external cloud (EC) and borrowing …, it is seen that the cloud's elasticity is so enhanced that it successfully accommodates its users' additional demands by …

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Measuring Efficiency of Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA Region

Sghaier, Asma; Sabra, Mahmoud; Mighr, Zouhayer; Gilles, … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 29-51

This study aims to measure the performance and efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks in the MENA region and its determinants. The authors use for this purpose the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and the analysis of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) method for calculating the...

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Analyzing Africa's Total Factor Productivity Trends: Evidence from the DEA Malmquist Approach

Nondo, Chali; Jaramillo, Juan R - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 7 (2018) 4, pp. 45-61

Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the authors investigate the productivity changes of 42 African countries by computing the Malmquist productivity indices. Subsequently, the measured Malmquist productivity indices become the dependent variables of a pooled truncated regression. The point...

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Complementary and Integrative Health Analysis of a Non-Profit Military Veteran Clinic

Hayes, Dalton; Wolters, Abbey Clare; Burzenski, Matt; … - In: International Journal of Applied Management Sciences … 5 (2018) 1, pp. 1-10

The Healing Warriors Program is a non-profit organization aiming to improve the quality of life for veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury through alternative healing modalities. This article describes how various hypotheses were tested using data...

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The Effects and Costs of Air Pollution on Health Status in Great Britain

Giovanis, Eleftherios; Ozdamar, Oznur - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 52-67

This study explores the effects of air pollution on self-reported health status and the health related costs in UK. The estimates are based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The effects of air pollution on individuals' health status are estimated and their monetary value is...

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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Development of Mongolia

Mungunzul, Erdenebat; Chang, Taikoo - In: Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 16 (2018) 3, pp. 12-21

This article describes how foreign direct investment in Mongolia has reached 3.9 billion US$ mainly in the mining sector that amounted approximately 40% of the year's GDP. Even though FDI into Mongolia has been grown along with the country's economic development with trade openness to the world,...

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The Dynamic Impacting Study of Competitive Strategies to Import Retail E-Commerce Sellers

Zhang, Xuanxuan - In: Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 16 (2018) 4, pp. 53-66

The authors investigated several import retail e-commerce sellers through questionnaires and selected several types of variables based on Porter's competitive strategy theory. Then the authors used the panel data to empirically verify theoretical consumptions based on samples got by Python...

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