This paper explores the impact of regulations on the perceptions and management of risk. The study focuses on Zimbabwean banks. We evaluated the influence of banking regulatory policy using data gathered from a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) questionnaire and data measuring annual overall...

Arrays of tungsten oxide nanorods, approximately 500 nm in diameter and 10 μm in length, have been grown in a catalyst-free reaction by heating tungsten wires at 900°C in a humid argon flow. They were systematically characterized using different surface analysis techniques. The chemical...

This paper presents some convex stochastic programming models for single and multi-period inventory control problems where the market demand is random and order quantities need to be decided before demand is realized. Both models minimize the expected losses subject to risk aversion constraints...

With the rapid development of the Internet, we have entered an era of information explosion. In this kind of situation, recommender systems appear. It is meaningful that recommender systems help people to get useful and valuable items from massive data (e.g. movies, music, books, jokes). The...

Over the past three decades, data quality/ information quality (DQ/ IQ) is emerging into a possible distinct discipline. As the research overlaps with other disciplines or research fields such as IS, Marketing, Computing Science, etc., it is important to identify the core characteristics of...

Three experiments showed that naming latencies were significantly shorter when the patch color was consistent with the object’s typical color relative to when they were inconsistent. Such color simulation was also found for verbs involving an object with color and words psychologically-related...

Acetyl esterase was produced by a bacterial strain RB3 at a level of 0.59 U mL−1. The strain was isolated from beef cattle rumen fluid under anaerobic condition, and was identified as Escherichia coli. The peak activity of the enzyme appeared after 48 h of culturing under anaerobic...