The idea of combining forecasts is of great interest to forecasters and a linear combination of different forecasts can be more accurate than any individual forecast. For model builders, forecast encompassing is a way of checking whether any extra important information is contained in forecasts...

Computers have a growing presence in all levels of education and in all kinds of occupations. To be adequately prepared for their chosen professions, undergraduate college students have to be successful in their coursework. To achieve that success, and in consideration of the increasing reliance...

Entrepreneurship enablers are the 'people behind the people' who create and build businesses and social enterprises and thus help bring about economic and social regeneration. Entrepreneurship enablers are really entrepreneurs, but their 'product' is the businesses and other initiatives that...

Non-mixture cure models (NMCMs) are derived from a simplified representation of the biological process that takes place after treatment for cancer. These models are intended to represent the time from the end of treatment to the time of first recurrence of cancer in studies when a proportion of...

In the paper it is suggested that the level of demand for exports and its variability are more important than the variability of the exchange rate for a commodity whose storage costs are not negligible. Evidence in favour of this hypothesis is provided by panel data analysis for the USA exports...