Every machine degrades with time and requires maintenance. Among all types of maintenance policies, predictive maintenance is established as the best form of maintenance policy as numerous benefits are associated with it. Despite all the benefits, it finds restrictive usage in manufacturing...

This paper proposes a predictive maintenance policy using modified failure mode effect and criticality analysis (Mod-FMECA) technique. FMECA is used to identify failure modes, reasons, effects and criticality of the system (machine/plant) but in Mod-FMECA in addition to the analysis carried for...

What began as a single COVID-19 case in China in late 2019 quickly spread around the globe in the first quarter of 2020. While the impact on the world\'s health systems is unknown, the economic toll remains also remains unknown as the world grapples with an unprecedented global recession. This...

Random numbers are important to conducting surveys, simulations, and other economic and statistical analysis. Despite their importance, many people using popular statistical software packages to generate random numbers are often uninformed about how the software creates a (supposedly) random...

Lending institutions’ reluctance to lend to MSMEs or to offer them competitive interest rates stems from the relatively costly information acquisition for small loans. The central idea is to bridge the information gap between the demand and the supply side by creating a credit analytics...

The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public Pakistani manu- facturing companies throughout the timeframe 2010-20. Pooled OLS technique was used for regression purposes, as the majority of companies do not pay a dividend at all or do not do so regularly so...

The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public manufacturing Pakistani companies throughout the timeframe 2010-20. Pooled OLS technique was used for regression purpose, as the majority of companies does not pay a dividend at all or regularly so all these firms...

This research investigates Banks' profitability in the United Arab Emirates from 2008 to 2012 using Bankscope Data Base, Financial Statement, and quantitative methodology techniques. This study focuses on 4 banks, 2 Islamic banks (Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank - Public Joint...

Using a general equilibrium representative agent framework developed by Lucas (1978), Hansen and Singleton (1983) studied the behaviour of asset returns and consumption growth with maximum likelihood techniques. The model was rejected, but their work is commonly cited for estimates of the...