Muñoz-Suárez, Manuel; Guadalajara Olmeda, María Natividad; Osca Lluch, José María(MDPI AG, 2020-07)
[EN] Global University Rankings (GURs) intend to measure the performance of universities worldwide. Other rankings have recently appeared that evaluate the creation of environmental policies in universities, e.g., the ...
Josep Domenech; Sahuquillo Borrás, Julio; Gil Salinas, José Antonio; Pont Sanjuan, Ana(Rinton Press, 2012-03)
[EN] This paper reviews a representative subset of the prediction algorithms used for Web prefetching classifying them according to the information gathered. Then, the DDG algorithm is described. The main novelty of this ...
[EN] In order to address the critical thinking and the knowledge of contemporary problems an online forum activity is proposed in this paper. The activity was applied within the World Economy subject in the degree of ...
Martí Selva, María Luisa; Martin, Juan Carlos; Puertas Medina, Rosa María(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Logistics and transport increasingly play a pivotal role in international trade relations. The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) measures the on-the-ground efficiency of trade supply chains or logistics performance. ...
[EN] In this paper we propose and validate a trading rule based on flag pattern recognition, incorporating im- portant innovations with respect to the previous research. Firstly, we propose a dynamic window scheme that ...
Segarra Oña, María del Val; Peiró Signes, Angel; Cervelló Royo, Roberto Elías(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2015-12-01)
This paper examines key aspects in the innovative behavior of the
construction firms that determine their environmental orientation while innovating.
Structural equation modeling was used and data of 222 firms retrieved ...
Chaparro Banegas, Nuria; Sendra-Pons, Pau; Roig Tierno, Honorat; Mas Tur, Alicia(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-01-19)
[EN] Learning about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for strategic decision-making has gained prominence in higher education (see, Sendra-Pons et al, 2021). The SDGs, adopted by United Nations Member ...
Queiro-Ameijieras, C. M.; Martí-Parreño, J.; Seguí-Mas, Elies; Summerfield, L.(IATED, 2019-11-13)
[EN] Gamification is a tool that is increasingly used in the field of teaching at all levels of education, from
primary to university. Despite the fact that Business Management and Accounting have not remained
on the ...
[EN] This paper introduces a new approach to the sales comparison model for the valuation of real estate that can objectively estimate the coefficients associated with the explanatory price variables. The coefficients of ...
[EN] The aim of this study is to devise a sector restructuring model in which all the decision making units (DMUs) satisfy a predefined global efficiency level. The proposal makes several realistic assumptions regarding ...
Garcia-Bernabeu, Ana; Cabello, José Manuel; Ruiz, Francisco(MDPI AG, 2020-05)
[EN] The evaluation of regional innovation performance through composite innovation indices can serve as a valuable tool for policy-making. While discussion on the best methodology to construct composite innovation indices ...
[EN] Assessing the ability of applicants to repay their loans is generally recognized as a critical task in credit risk management. Credit managers rely on financial and market information, usually in the form of ratios, ...
[EN] Challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) has been a recurrent topic for researchers and practitioners since its formulation. Hundreds of empirical studies claim to either prove or disprove the EMH by means ...
García García, Fernando; Guijarro, Francisco; Oliver-Muncharaz, Javier(MDPI AG, 2021-03)
[EN] This paper proposes the use of a goal programming model for the objective ranking of universities. This methodology has been successfully used in other areas to analyze the performance of firms by focusing on two ...
[EN] Countries are encouraged to integrate environmental performance metrics by covering the key value-drivers of sustainable development, such as environmental health and ecosystem vitality. The proper measurement of ...
García García, Fernando; Gonzalez-Bueno, Jairo; Guijarro, Francisco; Oliver-Muncharaz, Javier(Enterpreneurship and Sustainability Center, 2020)
[EN] This paper extends the stochastic mean-semivariance model to a fuzzy multiobjective model, where apart from return and risk, also liquidity is considered to measure the performance of a portfolio. Uncertainty of future ...
Index tracking seeks to minimize the unsystematic risk component by imitating the movements of a reference index. Partial index tracking only considers a subset of the stocks in the index, enabling a substantial cost ...
[EN] In recent decades, the 3D virtual reconstructions and visualizations of archaeological sites have been commonly used by
scientists to better understand the missing structures. They have also been considered as an ...
[EN] The ability of a territory to manage certain sustainable development processes increasingly depends on its capacity to apply previous diagnostic processes to its current situation. For this reason, methodologies that ...
[EN] We propose a new typology of small farms in Europe using a multivariate analysis drawing from household surveys from 14 European countries. The variables to develop the types covered a range of characteristics from ...