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Competitiveness of credit associations and credit cooperatives in Japan
Published 2009“…The results correspond to research findings by Tsutsui and Kamesaka (2005), and Uchida and Tsutsui (2005). …”
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322
Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics: some evidence for Latin America
Published 2008“…Using quarterly data over the period 1980-2006, we find that in a majority of cases fiscal shocks are the main driving force of real exchange rate fluctuations.…”
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323
Ageing and personal retirement savings plan participation with heterogeneity in preferences : the Portuguese case
Published 2007“…A mixed logit model is used to analyse the determinants of retirement saving behaviour, allowing for heterogeneity in the responses. We find considerable heterogeneity among individuals (in terms of socio-economic variables such as age, gender and income), which must be taken into account by any policy aimed at changing retirement saving behaviour.…”
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324
Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model
Published 2007“…A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant segments in the sample. …”
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325
Opinion on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Published 2011“…It follows a request to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” …”
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Monograph -
326
Characteristic qualities affecting landed house prices
Published 2018“…The research was conducted to find the characteristics quality of houses in Malaysia. …”
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Some aspects of fitting multinomial models in a GLM framework
Published 2010“…The method given here also allows us to find the ‘hat - matrix’ as is needed in the calculation of leverages and Cook’s distances. …”
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Thesis -
329
Experimental study of noise and back pressure for silencer design characteristics
Published 2005“…The main objective of this study is to find the relationship between the back pressure and the noise level. …”
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330
Globalizations and bank performance in China
Published 2012“…The paper provides for the first time empirical evidence on the impact of economic globalization on the performance of banks operating in the Chinese banking sector. The empirical findings from this study suggest that the well capitalized banks tend to be more profitable, while expense preference behavior exerts negative impact on bank profitability in China. …”
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331
G-decompositions of matrices and quadratic doubly stochastic operators
Published 2011“…In this work we introduce a notion of G-decomposition of matrices which enables to study Birkhoff's problem for quadratic G-doubly stochastic operators. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the matrices having G-decomposition in the class of stochastic and substochastic matrices. …”
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Legal obstacles facing Islamic banking in Malaysia
Published 2011“…The main focus of the paper is to find out the legal obstacles facing Islamic banking in Malaysia.…”
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A concept of shear wall for the design of high-rise buildings construction
Published 2011“…Single walls are modeled as cantilevers and walls with openings are modeled as pier/ spandrel systems. In order to find the stiffness, the simple systems models can provide reasonable results. …”
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335
The parameters of uncertainty in revenue law
Published 2011“…However, uncertainty has a utilitarian role, leaving the courts latitude to find the appropriate legal solution, either in defining terminologies and concepts or in the application of legal rules as long as the courts approach is predictable.…”
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336
Diffusion-reaction of nutrient in immobilized slab biocatalyst for first and zero order reactions
Published 2011“…The second order differential equations developed for zero and first order kinetics are solved analytically to fInd the concentration profile inside the slab biocatalyst. …”
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337
Production of activated carbon from (EFB) for removal of cadmium
Published 2010“…Series of batch laboratory experiments were conducted in order to investigate the feasibility of activated carbon – derived from oil palm empty fruit bunches to find the suitability of its application for the removal of heavy metal (cadmium) from aqueous solution through the adsorption process. …”
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338
Estimation of aerodynamic parameters of IIUM hybrid airship
Published 2011“…The objective is to study the aerodynamic parameters of the wingedhull airship and to find the necessities of attaching wings to the existing IIUM low speed airship. …”
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339
On dynamics of xs quadratic stochastic operators
Published 2012“…We first describe xi-s -QSO on 2Dsimplex and classify them with respect to the conjugacy and renumeration of the coordinates. We find six non-isomorphic classes of such operators. …”
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Methods and methodologies in Fiqh and Islamic economics
Published 2008“…The paper argues that the methods used in Fiqh are mainly designed to find out whether or not a certain act is permissible or prohibited. …”
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