Student attrition – the departure from an institution of higher learning prior to the achievement of a degree or earning due educational credentials – is an administratively important, scientifically interesting and yet ...

Knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has become a popular pursuit for cities, especially from the developing countries, to fast track the catching up process with their counterparts in developed nations. Nevertheless, ...

This study distinguishes between new technology-based firms (NTBFs) on and off Science Parks in Sweden in an effort to identify any element of added value which the park provides for the NTBFs (273 firms). The paper reports ...

Explicit information used in the development of recommender systems includes online customer feed-back. Such explicit input from customers suffers from several types of bias, which directly affect the quality of the resulting ...

The metropolitan city of Istanbul is becoming overcrowded and the demand for clean water is steeply rising in the city. The use of analytical approaches has become more and more critical for forecasting the water supply ...

Investigation of the risk factors that contribute to the injury severity in motor vehicle crashes has proved to be a thought-provoking and challenging problem. The results of such investigation can help better understand ...

University ranking indexes are considered very useful benchmarking tools in comparing the performance of universities around the world. Being placed in these prestigious indexes provides a strong advertisement for a ...

In her article entitled "The one-billion-plus marginalization: Toward a scholarly understanding of Islamic consumers", El-Bassiouny (2014) attempts to provide "a comprehensive conceptualization for Islamicmarketing and its ...