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  • PowerPoint in accounting classrooms: constructive or destructive? 
    El Khoury, Rim; Matter, Dorine M. (2023-09-15)
    This research investigated the impact of two teaching methodologies, PowerPoint and traditional, on materials’ understandability, the teaching/learning process, the students’ attitude towards and preference for them, as ...
  • A practical routing model for optimized pavement data collection 
    Bazi, Gabriel; El Khoury, John; Srour, F. Jordan (SSRN, 2017-07-07)
    Federal laws require regular condition reporting for portions of the national highway system. Most agencies use instrumented vehicles to collect data on and report the required information. The routing of these vehicles, ...
  • A pragmatic approach for testing robustness on real-time component based systems 
    Tarhini, Abbas; Rollet, Antoine; Fouchal, Hacène (IEEE, 2023-06-07)
    Summary form only given. In this paper, we suggest a realistic methodology for testing robustness of real-time component-based systems (RTCBS). A RTCBS system is described as a collection of components where each component ...
  • Pre-hospital care metrics as reflected in lebanese red cross ambulance response data, fourth quarter, 2016 
    Srour, F. Jordan; Jabr, Nabih (2018-01-19)
    This document reports data from the Lebanese red Cross regarding calls received for ambulance services in 2016. The primary aim of this report is to illustrate facets of the pre-hospital care system in Lebanon via data ...
  • Predicting business cycle turning points with neural networks in an information-poor economy 
    Nasr, George E.; Dibeh, Ghassan; Achkar, Antoine (Society For Computer Simulation, 2017-08-25)
    A feedforward neural network model is used to forecast turning points in the business cycle of postwar Lebanon. The NN has as inputs seven indicators of economic activity and as output the probability of a recession. The ...
  • Predicting Repeat and Total Visits to a Destination Using Simulation Modeling Through Time 
    Assaker, Guy; El-Haddad, Rania (2016-05-09)
    Previous literature has shown that important variations exist over time regarding the extent to which visitors make return trips to tourist destinations. This paper provides an analytical framework to account for time ...
  • Prediction of knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization from locus control 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Mahseredjian, Jaisy-Angela (2017-04-10)
    This study investigated the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and knowledge management (KM), i.e. knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization. Participants were 155 individuals working in ...
  • Prediction of knowledge sharing from big five personality traits via interpersonal trust 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Osman, Yasmine (2017-04-10)
    The purpose of this research was to empirically test the relationship between personality traits (neurotic and agreeableness) and KS via interpersonal trust. 205 employees in medium size organization were surveyed. Results ...
  • The predictive capacity of GARCH-type models in measuring the volatility of crypto and world currencies 
    Naimy, Viviane; Haddad, Omar; Fernández-Avilés, Gema; El Khoury, Rim (2023-09-08)
    This paper provides a thorough overview and further clarification surrounding the volatility behavior of the major six cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin, Monero, Dash and Dogecoin) with respect to world currencies ...
  • Preferences in business and corporate strategies 
    Ismail, Hussein (2017-09-28)
    This study explored the relationship between 24 personal values and strategic preferences. Data was collected from 137 participants. Through stepwise discriminant analysis, the data were analyzed to reveal that personal ...
  • Preparing for, withstanding, and learning from sales crises 
    Dugan, Riley; Chaker, Nawar N.; Nowlin, Edward; Deeter-Schmelz, Dawn; Rangarajan, Deva; Agnihotri, Raj; Itani, Omar S. (2022-10-25)
    The response from many firms to the recent COVID-19 crisis underscores a more fundamental and overarching question: How should salespeople and their firms prepare for and respond to sales crises more generally? In response, ...
  • Presence of women on boards in industrial firms: evidence from GCC countries financial markets 
    Hamdan, Reem; Nasrallah, Nohade; El Khoury, Rim; Hamdan, Allam; Alareeni, Bahaaeddin (2023-08-31)
    This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of women's presence on the boards of industrial public companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The first question deals with the relationship between board ...
  • Price drivers and investment strategies of gold 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-17)
    The price determinants of gold are explained in this paper. Benefits from holding gold as an investment class asset in several forms, including ETFs are explored. Disadvantages of holding various gold investments are ...
  • Price fairness perceptions and hotel customers’ behavioral intentions 
    Assaker, Guy; El-Haddad, Rania; Hallak, Rob (2016-05-09)
    This study examines the causal relationship between consumers’ price fairness perceptions and behavioral intentions in the context of online hotel bookings. Using a cross-sectional sample of 506 customers of a budget hotel ...
  • Privately Held or Publicly Owned? Large Shareholders and Corporate Control 
    Toukan, Amjad (2016-02-16)
    This paper examines the decision to go public in the presence of large and dispersed shareholders. The decision to go public and the shape of the ownership structure itself depend on the particular combination of concentrated ...
  • Proactive Personality 
    Messarra, Leila; Dagher, Grace K. (2017-04-26)
    Using a sample of 101 currently employed MBA students, the researchers assessed the relationship between proactive personality and the different types of commitment i.e. affective, continuance, normative and career. The ...
  • Profiles and energy of transitional tumbling flow around a large bed element 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (2016-10-26)
    The transition from supercritical to subcritical flow observed in a laboratory flume is characterized in the presence of a single large bed element (LBE). The present description is both qualitative and quantitative. Three ...
  • Profiling Tourism SMEs According to Owners' Support for Community 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; O'Connor, Peter (2016-05-09)
    This study profiles small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) according to their level of support for local communities in order to investigate the relationship between such support and enterprise performance. Cluster ...
  • Public policy and expatriate entrepreneurs 
    Zgheib, Philip W.; Ahmed, Zafar U.; Carraher, Shawn; Kowatly, Abdulrahim K. (2016-05-19)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between demographic and public policy with the entrepreneurial related variables of entrepreneurial orientation, self employment, customer service, and ...
  • Quality and learning 
    Kiomjian, Daoud; Srour, F. Jordan; Srour, Issam (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-01-02)
    Several studies recognize the existence of a relationship between learning and experience, on one hand, and productivity and quality of work, on the other hand. This paper examines, through the use of a case study, the ...

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