Singing for your supper: Staff singing for transformation and teambuilding in a South African bank by Alta van As

“…Booysen envisaged the choir project as a means of moral support during the Absa–Barclays merger. This article reports on the results of a Doctoral investigation into the extramusical benefits of this project for Absa, such as transformation and teambuilding. …”
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Soccer video analysis : player tracking by Chua, Ian Jun Hao

“…Popular sports associations such as the Barclays’ Premier League (BPL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have utilized video analyzing software to gather useful information for their own team, such as player movements, team formations and ball trajectories. …”
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Influência, interação e desempenho do key-player no jogo de Futebol by Rafael Oliveira, Gonçalo Dias, Vasco Vaz, José Gama

“…Material and Methods: Integrated in the English football league (Barclays U21 - Premier League), three matches were analyzed. …”
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Research on the Optimization Pathways of University Education and Teaching Reform based on OBE Concepts by Huang Jingjing

“…In order to provide personalized services to students in the curriculum map, this paper applies the user-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm to the curriculum map and uses a similarity calculation based on Barclay’s coefficient improved similarity (BCCF) to finally implement the curriculum recommendation algorithm. …”
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Role of Push Vs Pull Factors in Employee Job Switch Decision by Muhammad Zohaib Sufyan, Azra Maqsood

“…A convenience sample of 60 respondents in a questionnaire based survey, there were 20 participants each from three companies which include Getz Pharmaceuticals, Barclays Bank PLC, Pakistan and Engro Polymer & Chemicals Ltd. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on UK Banks; How Banks Reshape Consumer Banking Behaviour during Pandemic by Nidal A. Darwish, Mohammed Bayyoud

“…This study evaluates the impact of COVID-19 on three banks in the UK, including HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclays Bank. A mixed research approach was adopted where a closed-ended survey with 30 employees (10 employees from each bank) were chosen to participate in the survey. …”
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Application of Robust Statistics to Asset Allocation Models by Roy E. Welsch, Xinfeng Zhou

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Quantum Algorithms for Mixed Binary Optimization Applied to Transaction Settlement by Lee Braine, Daniel J. Egger, Jennifer Glick, Stefan Woerner

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Bond and CDS Pricing via the Stochastic Recovery Black-Cox Model by Albert Cohen, Nick Costanzino

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Does the Federal Constitutional Court Ruling Mean the German Financial Market is Efficient? by Bachar Fakhry, Christian Richter

“…Introducing a new variance bound test based on the Component-GARCH model of volatility to analyse the long- and short-runs effects on the efficiency of the German financial market, we test the price volatility of four markets: DAX stock index, German sovereign debt index as provided by Barclays and Bloomberg, Euro gold index by the World Gold Council and Euro currency index by the Bank of England. …”
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A General Framework for Incorporating Stochastic Recovery in Structural Models of Credit Risk by Albert Cohen, Nick Costanzino

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Financial services in a global financial centre : a comparative analysis of the range, quality and cost of basic financial services available to Singapore consumers. by Koh, Winnie Hui Xian., Munirah Abdul Razak., Siew, Genevieve Ka Ling.

“…Acknowledging the primacy of United Kingdom (UK) as a global financial centre with the successful standing of its Big 4 retail banks – Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and NatWest- the country was thus used as a benchmark in this research study. …”
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WORLD OIL PRICE FORECAST ON BASIS OF EXPERT NON-NUMERIC KNOWLEDGE by Yu. A. Nazarova

“…It assumes an estimation the probability of alternative development options based on the ordinal and interval information by double randomization of alternatives’ probabilities, and weight coefficient, which takes into account the importance of the source of the forecast.As a source of expert information we have taken the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the European Commission, the Energy Information Administration US Department of Energy, Barclays Commodities Research reports and statements of experts of international rating agency Fitch Ratings regarding the average price for Brent crude oil for 2015. …”
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A weighted director network analysis of the big four banks on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by Burgert A. Senekal, Karlien Stemmet

“…Aim: In this study, we conducted a node-level analysis to investigate whether the four major South African banks, namely, Barclays Africa Group Ltd (now ABSA Group Limited), Nedbank Group Ltd, Standard Bank Group Ltd and FirstRand Ltd, occupy central roles in the company director network on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). …”
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A new continuous distribution on the unit interval applied to modelling the points ratio of football teams by Nakamura, Luiz R., Cerqueira, Pedro H. R., Ramires, Thiago G., Pescim, Rodrigo R., Rigby, Robert A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios

“…The potentiality of the new regression model is illustrated by means of a real dataset related to the points rate of football teams at the end of a championship from the four most important leagues in the world: Barclays Premier League (England), Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy) and BBVA league (Spain) during three seasons (2011–2012, 2012–2013 and 2013–2014).…”
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Mikhail Lomonosov’s “Short Manual in Rhetoric”: The History of the First Edition from 1748 by Andrei A. Kostin, Konstantin N. Lemeshev

“…This made it possible for Lomonosov to radically rewrite the first paragraphs of an early chapter “On fictions,” turning it into a theoretical text, legitimizing the fiction genres, which became the crucial part of the Academy print in 1747/48 (Volchkov’s translation of the Aesop’s Fables; the translations of the Fenelons’ Telemaque and Barclay’s Argenis; Sumarokov’s tragedies). The article concludes with a verified stemma of the print sources of the “Kratkoe rukovodstvo,” issued during Lomonosov’s lifetime; and the Moscow edition (1759–1765) is argued to present the latest authorized text.…”
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The restraints of performance bond claims in construction industry by Poh, Grace Chieng Ling

“…Besides, in Edward Owen Engineering Ltd v Barclays Bank International Ltd and another, it stated that if there is clear fraud, the surety does not have to pay according to its guarantee. …”
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Opportunities and Challenges of Foreign Banks in India by Dr. Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Prof. Ashok K. Mohanty

“…Among other foreign banks, ABN AMRO Holding NV, which came to India in 1920 (again, Kolkata was the first port of call), has 31 branches and Deutsche Bank AG, 30 years old in India, is present in 12 centres through 13 branches. Barclays Bank Plc, which launched its India operations in November 2006, has seven branches. …”
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Albumin resuscitation in burns: a hybrid regime to mitigate fluid creep by Judith E Hunter, Peter J Drew, Tom S Potokar, William Dickson, Sarah J Hemington-Gorse

“…The Cochrane review has been widely criticised, however, and we continued to use 4.5% human albumin solution after 8 h of crystalloid as a hybrid of Parkland and Muir & Barclay’s regime. Methods: Adult patients ⩾15% TBSA were identified from data prospectively entered into our database over a 5-year period (2003–2008). …”
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Learning behaviour analysis of online course learners using EEG and facial expression data by S. Kavitha, G. Raghuraman, A. Kavithasri, S. Aishvarya, B. Janani

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