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Due to the interplay between daily rebalancing and volatility, Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) may experience a cumulative return different from the product of their daily leverage ratio and the periodic index return.  When the leveraged ETF’s return over a particular time frame minus the…

This paper is focused on patterns and changes in regional specialization and geographic concentration of agriculture as economic activity. The study is focused mainly on the evolution of Agriculture, as economic activity. It is studied the evolution of regional specialization and geographic concentration in Romania…

A company’s capabilities can be categorized into business networks, knowledge acquisition, and strategic management.  These capabilities are influenced by the constructs of the following orientations: EO (Entrepreneurial Orientation), MO (Market Orientation), LO (Learning Orientation) and TO (Technological Orientation). We propose an Innovation Conceptual Model to…

Environmental threats associated with demographic and technological trends have resulted in calls for transition to a global economy that operates within the carrying capacity of the natural environment.  Because of their centrality to economic activity, this transition must include small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At…

The objective of this research is to outline the critical factors to knowledge workers’ adoption of “public-good” Inter-organizational knowledge sharing systems (IOKSS).  Public-good IOKSS is one that is open to all firms in a specific sector.   Public-good IOKSS is valuable and critical for effective social…

Multidrug resistant (MDR) P.aeruginosa had emerged in Egypt and seen mainly in nosocomial infections due to the selective pressure by overusage of antibiotics. This study was planned to delineate prevalence of MDR P.aeruginosa in nosocomial infection patients, and to screen for ESβLs producing P.aeruginosa with…

A key step in the inverted T-scar pattern breast reduction technique is the preoperative marking of the medial skin incision which will ultimately become the medial aspect of the horizontal scar in the new inframammary fold. We describe the ‘cleavage imprinting’ technique that allows the…

This paper presents how people use the Micro blogging (MB) services in emergency situations, and proposing a methodology for investigating if and how cultural differences affect communications broadcasted by people who were on the ground during emergency events. This paper addresses issues of the attributes…

This exploratory study focused on the characteristics of the social media consumer and the non-social media consumer, and then compared the two groups over a two-year period (2010 and 2012).  The exploratory study used two versions of a questionnaire, in which one version was directed…

Social networks need to manage and control the drift of insane amount of information by filtering and ranking everything in order to ensure they are right there for users’ viewing pleasure. However, the realization of social networks ranking is currently dictated by fairly straightforward optimization…