491 research outputs found
Global Commodities: Physical, Financial, and Sustainability Aspects
No full textFor many academics, students, and professionals, the field of commodities is a black box. This book explores commodities in a holistic manner, presenting concepts from a multidisciplinary business and financial perspective, and offering a panoramic view of the global commodity business and markets. In this book, the author presents core issues related to global commodities with recent data including COVID-19. The book introduces the key physical commodities traded globally and some related issues such as the global supply chain, global trading, transportation, storage, and how to finance global commodity trades. Then, it discusses how global commodity businesses and traders manage global risks related to commodity production (generation or extraction), transportation, storage, the final delivery, and currency exchange. Additionally, the book discusses financial commodities, the origins of global commodity derivatives and exchanges, the rationale behind the birth of commodity futures and trading, hedging, speculation, financialization, and manipulation of commodity markets, and how financial trading is executed in real life. In the last section, the author also discusses sustainability issues related to global commodities and the financial valuation aspects of the global commodity businesses supported by examples from real cases with recent data
Initial Public Offerings, Underpricing and Performance: the case of Top International Brands
No full textThe present study aims at investigating the relationship between Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) variables mainly underpricing on one hand, and the brand value measures on the other. Our final data set is 104 international brand companies. We implement an empirical approach using hierarchical OLS regression and descriptive statistics. We show that underpricing is positively related to brand value, which emphasizes the marketing role of going public and underpricing in enhancing brand equity through the product market, which additionally confirms some information asymmetry models. We also find that on average brand companies have not been recognized as brands at the IPO time. Moreover, we show the positive role of private equity in enhancing brand value, additionally, the non-linear association between underpricing and brand value is not evident. Finally, we draw some policy implications and suggestions for future research
Bitcoin volatility and the introduction of bitcoin futures: A portfolio construction approach
No full textWe evaluate the introduction of Bitcoin futures on Bitcoin return and volatility using realized volatility and GARCH model pre-and post-futures. We also assess the portfolio construction implications by building two portfolios containing the top 25 S&P stocks, one without futures and one with. GARCH and realized volatility show mixed results. We provide that futures make Bitcoin riskier and more vulnerable to fluctuations over time. However, Bitcoin futures improve the portfolio's volatility and returns profile. Our findings offer implications regarding portfolio strategies implemented by risk-averse and risk-seeking investors and managers as we show how Bitcoin futures can hedge investments
book named Kitâb-ı Kümük by Murad Çelebi: promotion and evaluation
No full textKitâb-ı Kümük adlı eser, 16. yüzyılda Azmî mahlaslı Murad Çelebi tarafından kaleme alınmıştır. Bu eser klasik
Türk edebiyatının edebî faaliyetleri arasında önemli bir yere sahip olan mensur-manzum hikâyelere bir
örnektir. Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü için Murad Çelebi (Azmî) hakkında yaptığımız biyografik çalışma
sonucunda tek nüshası British Museum Or. 7836 numarada kayıtlı olan Kitâb-ı Kümük3 adlı eserin
çalışılmamış olduğunu tespit ettik. Müellif nüshası olan bu eser Murad Çelebi’nin de kendi ifadesiyle birebir
şahit olduğu ya da birinci ağızdan duyduğu hikâyeleri içermektedir.
Bu çalışmada, Murad Çelebi( Azmî)’nin hayatı hakkında kısaca bilgi verildikten sonra British Museum Or.
7836 numarada kayıtlı olan Kitâb-ı Kümük adlı eserin nüsha tanıtımına yer verilecek olup eserin içinde yer
alan hikâyelerle ve bu hikâyelerin dil-üslup özellikleriyle ilgili bir değerlendirme yapılacaktır.The book named Kitab-ı Kümük was written by Murad Çelebi, pseudoynm name Azmî, in the 16th century.
This book is the prose-poetic examples of story that has an important place among the literary activities of
the classic Turkish literature. As a result of biographical work on Murad Çelebi (Azmî) for Türk Edebiyatı
İsimler Sözlüğü we have determined that one copy of Kitab-ı Kümük has registered in number Or. 7836
hadn’t been worked. This one copy of book written by author, includes story exactly as he witnessed or heard
first-hand with Murad Çelebi in his own word.
In this study after briefly informed about Murad Çelebi’s life, the book named Kitab-ı Kümük registered
Biritish Museum number Or. 7836, was identified. An assement will be made about story and language and
stylistic features of the story
Systematic reviews with language restrictions and no author contact have lower overall credibility: a methodology study
No full textZhen Wang,1–3 Juan P Brito,4 Apostolos Tsapas,5 Marcio L Griebeler,4 Fares Alahdab,1,3 Mohammad Hassan Murad,1,3,61Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, 2Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, 3Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, 4Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 5Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 6Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USABackground: High-quality systematic reviews (SRs) require rigorous approaches to identify, appraise, select, and synthesize research evidence relevant to a specific question. In this study, we evaluated the association between two steps in the conduct of an SR – restricting the search to English, and author contact for missing data – and the overall credibility of a SR.Methods: All SRs cited by the Endocrine Society's Clinical Practice Guidelines published from October 2006 through January 2012 were included. The main outcome was the overall A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) score, as a surrogate of SR credibility. Nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis tests and multivariable linear regression models were used to investigate the association between language restriction, author contact for missing data, and the overall AMSTAR score.Results: In all, 69 SRs were included in the analysis. Only 31 SRs (45%) reported searching non-English literature, with an average AMSTAR score of 7.90 (standard deviation [SD] =1.64). SRs that reported language restriction received significantly lower AMSTAR scores (mean =5.25, SD =2.32) (P<0.001). Only 30 SRs (43%) reported contacting authors for missing data, and these received, on average, 2.59 more AMSTAR points (SD =1.95) than those who did not (P<0.001). In multivariable analyses, AMSTAR score was significantly correlated with language restriction (beta =-1.31, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -2.62, -0.01, P=0.05) and author contact for missing data (beta =2.16, 95% CI: 0.91, 3.41, P=0.001). However, after adjusting for compliance with reporting guidelines, language restriction was no longer significantly associated with the AMSTAR score.Conclusion: Fewer than half of the SRs conducted to support the clinical practice guidelines we examined reported contacting study authors or searched non–English literature. SRs that did not conduct these two steps had lower quality scores, suggesting the importance of these two steps for overall SR credibility.Keywords: evidence-based medicine, research design, validity, quality of evidenc
Power Relations Reflected In Leo Tolstoy’s Hadji Murad (1904) : A Sociological Approach
No full textThe objectives of the study are (1) To identify the indicators of power relation in Hadji Murad.(2) To describe how the power relation depicted in the literary work.(3) To reveal why Leo Tolstoy addressed power relation related the novel. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research, because it does not need statistic data to get the fact. Descriptive qualitative research is a research which is the result of the data is a written data. The researcher uses two data sources, The primary data source of the study is Hadji Murad novel by Leo Tolstoy which is published in 1904. and The sources of secondary data are taken from other resources which are related to the study; website, articles, biography of the author, and some books which dealing with the research. Based on the analysis, the researcher gets some conclusions. (1) Authority, where the cahracter in the novel have their own authority as a power of relation, such as Hadj Murad with his charismatic character he can make great relationship with his fellowship. (2) The Depiction of Power Relation in the Novel can be seen through Character, where Hadji Murad is an assertive, ambitious, imposing, forgiving and permissive character. Through style it shows that Hadji Murad has power through his appearance (3) there are some messages that Tolstoy wants to address, related to how people can form their selves supposed to get good relation in society. Tolstoy uses Hadji Murad as an example where he is a great moeslem leader who is really charismatic. Tolstoy wants to show that leader with great power especially who has charisma, they can make good relationship event without a contract. It meanst that when people has good charisma, people around them can feel comfortable and give their believes on them
Death of Murad Hofmann: Some thoughts and recollections
No full textBorn a Catholic in Germany’s Aschaffenburg, Hofmann began his university education at Union College in New York in 1951. Then he studied law at Munich and Harvard Universities with a PhD in jurisprudence from the former in 1957 and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School in 1960. A prolific author of about a dozen books and an eloquent speaker, Hofmann embraced Islam in 1980, performed hajj in 1992 and describes his hajj experiences and his thoughts and reflections on various aspects of Islam in Journey to Makkah
Koperasi Pegawai-Pegawai Kerajaan Taiping Berhad / Nurin Huda Ahmad Murad
No full textSince 1923, KPKTB has acted as a loan medium for everyone from illegal loans. Currently, the membership of Koperasi was approximately 5229 come from government employees, statutory bodies, and private companies that used to be government. Members can reach Koperasi whether through the office, phone number, or visit Facebook Page. They also offer other services besides loans such as mortgage, rent, tourism, and other services.
The company’s vision is to become one of the top 50th best Koperasi. Meanwhile, its mission is always taking initiative in increasing profit rate to the maximum, in addition, striving to ensure the welfare of its members’ and attract new members. Koperasi objectives are members will be prioritized and given maximum service according to the rules that have been set, member’s welfare and information are guaranteed to be protected, and member funding application is being scrutinized, handled kindly and quickly resolved.
My job scope as Human Resources involves keeping updated with the employee’s record, employees filling out an annual leave form, and others. I have received some intrinsic and extrinsic benefits. I have gained several information about the company and analyze elements in PESTEL such as members have the democratic right (political), members’ involvement in business (economic), interaction with members (social), have own software (technological), emailing document (environmental), and complies BOD commands (legal).
Last but not least, I also analyzed the company’s SWOT Matrix with its strategies. Koperasi dividend increase & retired members continue membership (strengths), loan payment arrears & annual report book delay (weaknesses), charge 4% loans & fixed interest rate (opportunities), fallen ranking & vacant property (threats), maintain performance & persuade members (SO), collaboration LS Partners & offer 90% loans (WO), Offer services & sell/make a new project (ST), and send reminder letter & update book progress (WT)
A POETIC NASIHAT-NAME WRITTEN FOR MURAD IV: MIFTAH-I CENNET OF QADIRI HUSEYIN
No full textMany nasihat-names have been written with the aim of improving the individual and society in Turkish Islamic Literature field. These works can be written for the general community, they are also written for a spesific part of the society such as women, children, brethren, state administrators. The work named Miftah-i Cennet of Qadiri Huseyin was written for Sultan IV. Murad, one of the 17th century Ottoman sultans. The aim of the work is to guide the sultan who ascended the throne at the age of just a child. Sultan is the collocutor of the advices given to lead him to the happiness of the world and the hereafter. In this study, Miftah-i Cennet that was written for Sultan IV. Murad and has the feature of a poetic nasihat-name will be introduced. In the first part of the study, which consists of two parts, the life and works of Qadiri Huseyin, the author of the work, which does not have any information about his life in the biographical sources, will be mentioned. In addition, the opinions that the person known as Muhyiddin-i Qadiri may be the same person as Qadiri Huseyin will be presented. In the second part, the copies of Miftah-i Cennet which is the subject of our study will be introduced and general information about the content of the work will be given
Погребения Гераев в архитектурном комплексе Мурад Рейса / The Gerays burial in the architectural complex of Murad Reis
No full textВ настоящей работе рассматриваются захоронения Гераев на острове Родос в контексте архитектурного комплекса Мурад Рейса. В ней дается описание этого комплекса с выборочной библиографией и краткой историей изучения. В рамках публикации приводятся все выявленные на данный момент погребальные памятники Гераев в составе комплекса, показывается возможность и перспективность их дальнейшего изучения. / The paper deals with Gerays graveside on the island of Rhodes in the context of Murat Reis architectural complex. It describes the complex and provides selective bibliography and concise history of studying it. The author lists all Gerays burial monuments of the complex discovered to date, shows the possibilities and prospects of their further examination
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