The evaluation of collaborative learning is often difficult and time-consuming. As a consequence, teachers’ assessment of collaboration is mostly summative and focused on cognitive outcomes. Based on data that was gathered from a project-based, unscripted course, collaboration was evaluated...

To have a means to have the possibility for a certain period to either choose for or against making an invetsment decision, without binding oneself up front. The real option rule is that one should invest today only if the net present value is high enough to compensate for giving up the value of...

China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the decade to 2008. In this paper, we explore a fuzzy discontinuity in the months of births induced by the expansion to study the returns to higher education in China. We find that...

This paper is about the classic methods which used in the analysis of economics. Therefore in this work are submitted the most common methodological approaches, which used in the economics. Thence, the terminology of axiomatic methods is scrutinized extendedly in this paper. Hence, the multiple...

In any organization, shop floor control seems to be a vital and pivotal activity and effective shop floor control paves the way for cent percent production. Effective utilization of resources, proper production planning, and successful maintenance would always pave the way for high productivity...

This paper is devoted to the issue of forecasting financial ratios. The objective of the conducted research is to develop a predictive model with the use of an innovative methodology, i.e., fuzzy logic theory, and to evaluate its effectiveness. Fuzzy logic has been widely used in machinery,...

To sustain competitive advantage, nowadays more than ever, outsourcing is crucially important for international and domestic firms. However, making the right outsourcing decision is not just a simple task, rather a multiple-factor decision-making issue. This paper attempts to aid decision-makers...

The work reported in this paper aims to present possibility distribution model of soft data used for corporate client credit risk assessment in commercial banking by applying Type 2 fuzzy membership functions (distributions) for the purpose of developing a new expert decision-making fuzzy model...

One of the common challenges exist throughout Europe is to compiling knowledge ready for practice. A key element for development and progress is distributing and sharing the knowledge.With sharing of knowledge is related a number of issues, such as trust (the not surprising conclusion that...

In economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services is not efficient. Monopoly power and asymmetric information are amongst the major causes of market failure. We plan to identify if there is a market failure in the dietary market. The present study plans to...