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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleReal Option Method and Escalation of Commitment in the Evaluation of Investment ProjectsMehrdad Karami, Farshid Ahmadi FarsaniProblem statement: This study applies an experimental method to find out whether using the real option method along with the discounted cash flow techniques can reduce the decision-makers’ Escalation of Commitment (EC hereafter) or their desire to keep up their commitment to a failed project. Approach: The real option method used for the evaluation of long-term projects also measures the … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 19 Sep 2011 · 7,389 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEntrepreneurs Success Factors and Escalation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in MalaysiaRaduan C. Rose, Naresh Kumar, Lim L. YenThis research aims to identify the success factors of founding entrepreneurs in Malaysia contributing to their companies' venture growth. Specifically this study was initiated to examine the relationship between venture growth and the following factors, namely personal initiative, human capital, areas of focus on competency and government support programs. From this research, it has been made clear that a large … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2006 · 8,411 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Bayesian Adaptive Design for Combination of Three Drugs in Cancer Phase I Clinical TrialsMourad Tighiouart, Quanlin Li, Steven Piantadosi, Andre RogatkoWe describe a Bayesian adaptive design for early phase cancer trials of a combination of three agents. This is an extension of an earlier work by the authors by allowing all three agents to vary during the trial and by assigning different drug combinations to cohorts of three patients. The primary objective is to estimate the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 25 Aug 2016 · 8,421 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsNuclear Posture Review: Kahn Vs. Schelling…and PerryTimothy Sands, Harold Camacho, Richard MihalikThe 2018 American Nuclear Posture Review includes a revived emphasis on deployed, low-yield nuclear options to reserve credible deterrence against countries that have transmitted beliefs the U.S. would not respond to employment of non-strategic nuclear weapons, since there is a mistaken perception that the U.S. could only respond with high-yield strategic weapons, which would be deemed unacceptable. An important question … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 30 Apr 2018 · 9,275 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsTheoretical Context of the Nuclear Posture ReviewTimothy Sands, Richard Mihalik, Harold CamachoThe very recently published 2018 American Nuclear Posture Review hails the revived emphasis on deployed, low-yield nuclear options to reserve credible deterrence against countries that have transmitted beliefs the U.S. would not respond to employment of non-strategic nuclear weapons, since there is a mistaken perception that the U.S. could only respond with high-yield strategic weapons, which would be deemed unacceptable. … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 30 Mar 2018 · 8,076 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEffects of Electromagnetic Field Frequency on the Behavior and Mortalities of Living OrganismsTatyana Degtyarevskaya, Andrei VokhmintsevThe objective of this investigation is to assess the influence of electromagnetic fields on living organisms. The impact of electromagnetic radiation of varying intensities on alterations in behavioral responses and mortality rates of living organisms was examined under controlled laboratory conditions at the first Moscow state medical university, named after I.M. Sechenov. The subjects of the study encompassed 10 specimens … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 24, Issue 2 · 19 Jan 2024 · 5,296 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractConcordance and Term Frequency in Analyzing API Calls for Malware Behavior DetectionNur Hilda Amira Abd Wahab, Masnizah Mohd, Ravie Chandren Muniyandi et al.Application Programming Interface (API) is used for the software to interact with an operating system to do certain task such as opening file, deleting file and many more. Programmers use this API to make it easier for their program to communicate with the operating system without having the knowledge of the hardware of the target system. Malware author is an … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 9 · 25 Sep 2019 · 7,784 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEpidemiology of Intensive Care Unit Infections and Impact of Infectious Disease Consultants in Managing Resistant InfectionsK. P. Ravi, Suresh Durairajan, Sankalp Parivar et al.Choice of empiric antibiotics in India have generally been guided by western data and guidelines. However, validity and applicability of western guidelines in the Indian setting is not known. The aim of our study was to explore microbial prevalence and resistance patterns in a tertiary care Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in India and to determine whether western guidelines are still … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 28 Apr 2013 · 7,948 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAntibiotic Sensitivity Pattern of Blood Isolates of Acinetobacter Species in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective AnalysisP. S. Shareek, D. Sureshkumar, Ramgopalakrishnan et al.Problem statement: Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter bacterium is one of the major causes of sepsis in ICUs in tertiary care hospitals in India. In this report we describe the antibiotic sensitivity patterns of Acinetobacter species isolated from blood over a one year period at a tertiary care hospital. Approach: We retrospectively analyzed the sensitivity pattern of Acinetobacter species isolated from blood … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 24 Mar 2012 · 8,564 accessesView PDFCite