We evaluate the performance of 51 mutual fund families based on a study of their diversified US managed mutual funds over an 11 year period and explore the determinants of performance gross of published expenses. We find that mutual fund families which charge loads, high expenses to their most...

This paper presents a model of dynamic experimental internationalization which we developed by employing Straussian Grounded Theory to explain how and why small- and medium-sized enterprises in a transitional economy (Vietnam) internationalize. Unlike other knowledge-based internationalization...

In this paper, based on renewable energy resources and load data research, a techno-economic feasibility study of an autonomous hybrid wind/photovoltaics (PV)/battery power system for a household in Urumqi, China, has been form carried out using Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables...

The objectives of this work were to investigate the optimization and kinetics of ethanolysis for biodiesel production by solid-supported microorganism of Burkholderia cenocepacia cultured via solid state fermentation (SSF). Operational parameters affecting the biodiesel yield were successively...