According to a new report of the European Commission, the European area in which one lives can have a considerable influence on the education and on the life perspectives. The report - the first one of this kind – urges the member states of the European Union to undertake more efforts in order...

In recent years, the government, of African Countries has assumed major responsibilities for economic reforms and growth. In attempting to describe their economies, economists (policymakers) in many African Countries have applied certain models that are by now widely known: Linear programming...

OCB ordinarily alludes to practices that decidedly affect the association or its individuals (Poncheri, 2006). OCB can be influenced by imparting in workers an impression of skill in their activity undertakings (Todd, 2003). Bateman and Organ (1983) proposed a noteworthy and solid connection...

Service Quality is a blend of two words, Service and Quality where we discover accentuation on the accessibility of value services to definitive users. RSQS scale has been used for identifying the discriminant service quality factors differentiating the consumer perception of high end apparel...

We contrast two approaches to the prediction of latent variables in the model of factor analysis. The likelihood statistic constitutes the set of minimal sufficient statistics for the unobservables when sampling arises from the exponential family of distributions. Linear predictors on the other...

Time heterogeneity, or the fact that subjects are measured at different times, occurs frequently in non-experimental situations. For time heterogeneous data having error components regression structure it is demonstrated that under customary normality assumptions there is no estimation method...

Il metodo proposto mira ad analizzare il contesto regionale europeo (UE 15), utilizzando gli indicatori introdotti nel Rapporto di Primavera 2004 e i dati regionali disponibili (Eurostat e OECD, 1999-2003) per evidenziare i migliori risultati e identificare gruppi regionali omogenei rispetto ai...

The paper presents the results of a sample survey regarding the perception and stimuli on students' creativity. The survey was conducted within a research project on the theme of innovation of companies and demand for creative employees, developed by Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi together with...