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- The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Development
- This paper highlights how the rise of supermarkets had a profound effect on agrifood systems via several important changes in the organization and institutions of the food system, including centralization of procurement from farmers, decline of traditional wholesale systems, and the rise of demanding private standards for product quality and...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- A Tabu Search Procedure For Generating Robust Project Baseline Schedules Under Stochastic Resource Availabilities
- The majority of research efforts in project scheduling assume a static and deterministic environment with complete information. In practice, however, these assumptions will hardly, if ever, be satisfied. Proactive scheduling aims at the generation of robust baseline schedules that are as much as possible protected against anticipated disruptions that may...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Proactive And Reactive Strategies For Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling With Uncertain Resource Availabilities
- Research concerning project planning under uncertainty has primarily focused on the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem stochastic RCPSP, an extension of the basic RCPSP, in which the assumption of deterministic activity durations is dropped. In this paper, we introduce a new variant of the RCPSP for which the uncertainty is...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Efficiency Versus Equity In Tradable Emission Permit Systems
- Economists advocate tradable emission quota as an ideal policy instrument to tackle environmental externalities because they would allow separating efficiency from equity considerations. An efficient allocation of abatement efforts is ensured by the operation of a competitive permit market; equity objectives can be pursued by the choice of a suitable...
- White papers 2004-03-05
- Selecting A Bond-Pricing Model For Trading: Benchmarking, Pooling, And Other Issues
- Does one make money trading on the deviations between observed bond prices and values proposed by bond-pricing models? We extend Sercu and Wu's work to more models and more data, but we especially refine the methodology. In particular, this paper explains a normal-return benchmark that markedly improves upon the Sercu-Wu...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Relationship Quality as the Cornerstone of a Marketing Strategy to Optimize Customer Relations
- Customer relationships have been increasingly studied in marketing science literature. Today one experiences an urgent need for measuring the success of relationships with customers. There exists an extensive body of knowledge about customer value, customer equity and retention rates. However, the authors believe that one should also consider the concept...
- White papers 2005-09-25
- Earnings Management in Belgium: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
- This paper first discusses the empirical evidence on earnings management practices by Belgian companies. This review indicates that Belgian companies manage earnings to avoid declines in earnings or losses, to influence relations with external financiers and to reduce taxes. Belgian companies quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange also report significantly...
- White papers 2006-01-04
- Performance Budgeting in the Netherlands: From Policy Budget to Accounting for Policy
- Public performance seems to be key to regain people's trust in politics and government in general, these days. For more than an decade, major efforts have been made to improve the problem solving capacity and the quality of services of governments and their administrations. Within public finance, one of the...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Innovation, Venturing and Renewal as Corporate Entrepreneurial Outcomes: A Resource-Based Analysis
- This paper explores innovation, renewal and venturing through a thoroughly developed resource-based analysis. It hypothesizes and tests the contribution of a resource portfolio including the firm upper echelon in order to find out which resources can be considered seminal to innovation, venturing and renewal. In doing so, it builds on...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- The Use of Buffers in Project Management: The Trade-Off Between Stability and Makespan
- During execution, projects may be subject to considerable uncertainty, which may lead to numerous schedule disruptions. Recent research efforts have focused on the generation of robust project baseline schedules that are protected against possible disruptions that may occur during schedule execution. The fundamental research issue that is addressed in this...
- White papers 2004-01-19
- The Impact of Venture Capital Financing on Earnings Management and Earnings Quality
- This study expands the existing earnings management research by examining earnings data of private companies prior to and after receiving venture capital VC financing. Analyses are run on a unique financial information database of 556 Belgian companies, receiving VC financing between 1987 and 1997. Each VC backed company is matched...
- White papers 2003-04-29
- Distributions in Life Insurance
- This paper considers the benefit and loss functions of a "general insurance", by which we mean a combination of the commonly used life insurances, endowment insurances and life annuities. It will be shown that these functions are random variables of a special type. For a wide class of insurances on...
- White papers 2004-03-18
- Structuring The IPO: Empirical Evidence On The Portions Of Primary And Secondary Shares
- This paper empirically studies the determinants of the portions of primary and secondary shares offered in IPOs Initial Public Offering. The data show that young growth firms tend to issue primary shares. Limited internal cash generation and a debt mix that largely consists of bank loans significantly positively affect the...
- White papers 2003-09-09
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- European Commission awards funding to Symantec, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Nortel, K.U.Leuven, and Tiscali for joint antiphishing research.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 December 2006-SYMANTEC: European Commission awards funding to Symantec, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Nortel, K.U.Leuven, and Tiscali for joint antiphishing researchC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04122006 CUPERTINO, Calif. - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that the European Commission has awarded funding to...
- Research articles 2006-12-05
- European Commission Awards Funding to Symantec, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Nortel, K.U.Leuven, and Tiscali for Joint Antiphishing Research
- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that the European Commission has awarded funding to Symantec, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Nortel, Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven, and Tiscali for critical research in phishing prevention. Being singled out for funding by the European Commission's highly competitive selection process underscores the exceptional research capabilities provided by these...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- The SDIC MORE, the Spatial Data Interest Community.
- The SDIC MORE, the Spatial Data Interest Community on Monitoring and Reporting initiated by LABSITA, University of Rome, and SADL, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the framework of the Call for Expression of Interest launched by the European Commission within the INSPIRE initiative, has started its activities...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape award recipients selected.
- The ASM International Foundation has announced the six recipients of the 2001 Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape Awards: Tiffany A. Biles, Purdue University Alicia Cobb, University of Missouri-Rolla Wim W. Farasyn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Michael Pasquariello, University...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Ultrathin film yields new materials, devices
- An ultrathin film containing one-nanometer thick clay particles may yield new materials and devices for medicine, electronics, and engineering. Researchers from Purdue University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium used a method that captures clay particles on a crystal to produce, see, and manipulate a single nanometer-thick layer of...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- FermaVir Announces Presentations on Potential Shingles Therapy at 19th International Conference on Antiviral Research ; Research Enhances Preclinical Properties of FermaVir Compounds
- NEW YORK -- FermaVir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB:FMVR) is pleased to announce that four abstracts on its research and development on compounds for the treatment of shingles have been accepted for presentation at the 19th International Conference on Antiviral Research to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico May 7th-11th, 2006....
- Research articles 2006-05-03
- Nist Announces New Government Aes Encryption Standard - Technology Information
- On October 2, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST selected a new algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard - "AES") to be used as the U.S. government's official encryption standard. The new standard is called "Rijndael" named after its Belgian creators Dr. Joan Daemen Proton World International and Dr. Vincemt...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
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