Purpose Digital libraries promote and accelerate scientific research in academic institutions. The subscribed database resources of digital libraries have become an increasingly valuable asset for researchers. Database resources help generate new ideas, determine research directions and promote...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the views and capabilities of librarians for the implementation of Big Data analytics in academic libraries of Pakistan. The study also sets out to check the relationship between the required skills of librarians and the application of Big Data...

Purpose This study aims to define a set of assumptions for testing the four factors tested statistically to determine information-seeking anxiety based on quantitative data. Design/methodology/approach The developed questionnaire was distributed among graduate university students in Zhenjiang...

Asset Valuation -- Finance and its Fundamental Problems -- Discounting and Bond Valuation -- Stock and Equity Valuation: Where Discounting Does Not Work -- Asset Pricing -- Option Pricing and Valuation of Contingent Cash Flow -- Certainty Equivalent, Risk Premium and Asset Pricing -- Debt/Loan...

Finance and its Fundamental Problems -- Does a Positive Perpetual Growth Rate Exist? -- Valuation Based on Required Payback Period -- Certainty Equivalent, Risk Premium and Asset Pricing -- Tax Shield, Bankruptcy Cost and Optimal Capital Structure

Purpose Awareness about plagiarism is essential for the evasion of intellectual mendacity, inculcation of academic integrity and assurance of quality research. Maintaining high standards regarding academic integrity is a major challenge for higher education and research organizations. In...

Since Western lifestyles can foster obesity and other problems, attention is turning to active travel (AT) as a means of increasing physical activity for both adults and children. Children's routines regularly focus on trips to and from school which can admit walking and other AT. Yet promoting...