Are rating agencies' assignment opaque? Evidence from international banks by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Although support vector machines can identify significant determinants we argue that ordered choice models are more reliable for this. Our findings suggest that ratings reflect a bank’s financial position, the timing of rating assignment and a bank’s country of origin. …”
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Finite sample sensitivity of the critical value of an F-test for cointegration in a single equation ADL model by Stewart, Chris

“…Using simulation methods we find that these critical values are sensitive to the degree of autocorrelation and lag length in the DGP in finite samples. …”
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Banking efficiency and Economic growth in the MENA region by Ghannouchi, Walid, Radić, Nemanja

“…We apply a causality analysis between cost efficiency and financial deepening using the Generalized Methods of Moments and our findings show a significant and positive causality and reverse relationship between financial deepening and banking productivity. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to the household sector by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This method analyses the degree as well as the speed of convergence, identifies the presence of club formation, and measures the behaviour of each country’s transition path relative to the panel average. We find evidence supporting integration in the deposit and short-term mortgage markets but not in the consumer credit market and longer term mortgages. …”
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Comparison of Basic Iterative Methods Used to Solve of Heat and Fluid Flow Problems by Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi

“…The Jacobi method, the point Gauss-Seidel method, the successive over-relaxation method (SOR), the line Gauss method (TDMA), the ADI method and Strongly Implicit (SIP) method are among the iterative approaches investigated, which are then compared to find the most optimal method. The selection criteria included the number of iterations and the time needed to reach convergence. …”
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Comparison of Basic Iterative Methods Used to Solve of Heat and Fluid Flow Problems by Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi

“…The Jacobi method, the point Gauss-Seidel method, the successive over-relaxation method (SOR), the line Gauss method (TDMA), the ADI method and Strongly Implicit (SIP) method are among the iterative approaches investigated, which are then compared to find the most optimal method. The selection criteria included the number of iterations and the time needed to reach convergence. …”
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Optimization of the cordycepin production by cordyceps militaris in submerged culture by Soltani, Mohammad

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Development of polymer blend-based carbon membrane for carbon dioxide separation from natural gas by Sazali, Norazlianie

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Microwave enhanced transesterification of biodiesel from non-edible feedstocks using waste mollusc shells as heterogeneous catalyst by Mohd. Zamberi , Mahanum

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Deep Eutectic Solvent Coupled with High Performance Liquid Chromatography for Extraction of Bisphenols and Phthalates from Selected Freshwater Source in Selangor, Malaysia by JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, MD SALEH, NOORASHIKIN, MAT SALLEH, MUHAMMAD ZULHAZIMAN, YUSOFF, FARHANINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…The optimum molar ratio of solvent and extraction time were 1:2 and 20 min, respectively. The best extraction temperature and volume of solvent with the highest recovery rate were 70 ºC and 3 mL. …”
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Deep Eutectic Solvent Coupled with High Performance Liquid Chromatographyn for Extraction of Bisphenols and Phthalates from Selected Freshwater Source in Selangor, Malaysia by JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, NOORASHIKIN MD SALEH, NOORASHIKIN MD SALEH, MUHAMMAD ZULHAZIMAN MAT SALLEH, MUHAMMAD ZULHAZIMAN MAT SALLEH, FARHANINI YUSOFF, FARHANINI YUSOFF, SALIZA ASMAN, SALIZA ASMAN

“…The optimum molar ratio of solvent and extraction time were 1:2 and 20 min, respectively. The best extraction temperature and volume of solvent with the highest recovery rate were 70 ºC and 3 mL. …”
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Deep Eutectic Solvent Coupled with High Performance Liquid Chromatography for Extraction of Bisphenols and Phthalates from Selected Freshwater Source in Selangor, Malaysia by JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, JANANEE A/P BALARAMAN, MD SALEH, NOORASHIKIN, MAT SALLEH, MUHAMMAD ZULHAZIMAN, YUSOFF, FARHANINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…The optimum molar ratio of solvent and extraction time were 1:2 and 20 min, respectively. The best extraction temperature and volume of solvent with the highest recovery rate were 70 ºC and 3 mL. …”
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Amalan penyeliaan pensyarah pembimbing terhadap pelaksanaan latihan industri di Politeknik Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Kuantan, Pahang by Baharuddin, Asiana

“…Dapatan kajian menunjukkan skor min konstruk pengetahuan, kemahiran dan sikap merupakan aspek yang berada pada tahap yang sederhana dari pensyarah pembimbing dan pelajar. …”
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Ultrasonic and electroplating approach for washcoat of γ-alumina and nickel oxide (nio) catalyst on fecral substrate for catalytic converter by Feriyanto, Dafit

“…Therefore, an appropriate techniques and parameter is UB+EL 30 min used for coating FeCrAl CATCO potential to improve physical properties and reduce emission.…”
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Enhancing efficiency and robustness against collision attack using Mersenne number transform for hash function by Omar Maetouq, Ali Aboulqasim

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Price Competition, Efficiency and Riskiness in Investment Banking by Radić, Nemanja, Fiordelisi, Franco, Girardone, Claudia

“…Our paper examines the intertemporal relationships between price competition, cost efficiency and riskiness for a sample of investment banks inten large developed countries over 2000-2008.We show that price competition is rather limited in investment banking worldwide thus implying the existence of colluding oligopolies.We also find that although investment banks’ stability was granted by relatively low competitive pressures, banks appeared prone to take more risk thus giving some support to the competition-stability view for the investment banking industry.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…The implications of these empirical findings are discussed in the light of the debate about the possible restructuring of the regulatory framework for the Treasury bond market in Europe.…”
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