This paper evaluates the hedging effectiveness of the Malaysian crude palm oil futures market using daily settlement prices over the periods from January 4, 2010 to August 30, 2017. Hedge ratios and the hedging effectiveness are determined by employing four competing econometric models namely: the standard ordinary least square (OLS) regression mod

This study develops a model based on Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) that enables ranking of the quality dimensions for achieving business excellence in the hotel industry of Bangladesh. The study adopted a sequential mix method approach. Semi structured interviews with 24 participants were initially conducted to identify the qualit

Due to the unique nature among the service industries, the overriding objective of the healthcare sector is to provide error free, impeccable services to their patients and clientele. It is not an option rather a norm for the healthcare sector to uphold and maintain the level of service that is quintessential and benchmark in the service industries

Click for more information.

With Network Mobility Basic Support Protocol (NEMO BSP), each communication should pass via the home agents of all mobile routers earlier reaching their destination at the time of frequent movement among the inter-technology handoff. This eventually results in performance deterioration of the real time application scenarios conducted on mobile node

With the worldwide deployment of different wireless access technologies and expanding requests for worldwide Internet accessibility, Network Mobility (NEMO) is turning out to be all the more requesting innovation. Therefore, NEMO Basic Support Protocol (NEMO BSP) has been anticipated by the NEMO Working Group for the continual worldwide connectivit

Professor Thomas L. Saaty is a world-renowned Operations Research (OR) scientist. His death has created a vacuum which can hardly be filled up. His absence in scholastic writing in the field of MCDM will be widely felt for a long time. The world of OR will remember him not only as a mathematician, originator of AHP and ANP, but also as a good human

Click for more information.

Click for more information.

In this paper, the unsteady magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mixed convection flow of nanofluid at lower stagnation point past a sphere is studied. Nanoparticles Cu and TiO2 with water as a base fluid are considered. The separation times of the flow as the boundary layer start to separate at the surface of the sphere are given attention. The governing bo