performance in a zero sum world economy

... Professor at the IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, International Islamic University Malaysia Mailing address: 20 5A Jalan Damansara, Damansara Heights, 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: ... management A measure of diversification and business mix, calculated as non-interest income/total assets A measure of liquidity, calculated as total loans/total assets The ratio indicates what ... Non-interest income and financial performance at US commercial banks Financial Review, 39(1), 101–127 Fu, M., & Heffernan, S (2010) Determinants of financial performance in Chinese banking Applied...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 09:02

... textile and apparel quantitative restraints and associated ETEs as well as duty-free access for all goods in these sectors; it also contains a new and detailed analysis of textile and apparel RoO, and ... Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin in a Post-ATC World Alan Fox U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC William Powers U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC Ashley ... land is fixed in all periods, but the rental price can change according to changes in demand 3.2.3 Balance of payments and trade Changes in the balance of payments are also driven by trends in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:17

... adequately trained to perform their jobs in a safe and productive manner Online courseware and delivery offer many benefits to businesses such as: – Current and accurate training materials – Availability ... Internet resources are often called online learning experiences, or e-learning Online courses can contain voice, data, and video, and are available to the students at any time from any place H c vi n ... khoa - Website: www.bkacad.com Networks Supporting the Way We Learn • • Online learning opportunities can decrease time-consuming and costly travel yet still ensure that all employees are adequately...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 14:15

... to make a living • Distinguish between an actionable dream and a fleeting fantasy • There are many ways to translate your passion into an idea for a business If your passion doesn't appear at ... need constant upgrades, so outsourcing was a natural Her company would manage and host the application as a remote monitoring system rather than have customers buy, install, and maintain an entire ... psychic income bank account was at zero because I wasn't loving my work any more I saw that too much of my creativity and talent was being lost to meetings and paperwork I wasn't having fun." Maxine...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20

... cognitively intact elderly individuals (39 females and 21 males), aged 69.9±6.3 years (ranging from 60 to 91 years), and with mean educational level of 8.5±5.5 years (ranging from to 20 years), were included ... complaints in an elderly sample: a cross-sectional study   Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR ”Mini-mental State”: a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician ... MAC-Q results, mirroring our findings, although was worse in those individuals presenting SMCs upon direct questioning High age, female gender and low education have all been associated with an...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... greater bioavailability The goal of these enriched soybeans is to create an affordable, land-based, renewable source of omega-3s that can be used as an alternative to fish to create great-tasting ... trans fat High Isoflavone Soybeans A wide body of research indicates multiple health benefits of consuming soy, including: alleviating menopausal symptoms29 30 , reducing cardiovascular disease ... that the western world s move toward organic farming - a lifestyle choice for a community with surplus food - and against agricultural technology in general and GM in particular, has been adopted...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:57

... (ZAS) in Berlin as well as to the supporting company Metaversum The KomParse system demonstrates an attractive application area for dialog systems that bears great future potential Natural language ... such a conversation: can be naturally extended to other platforms since only the avatar interfaces have to be adapted The integration architecture also has the advantage that the necessary services ... language dialog with NPCs is an important factor in making virtual worlds more interesting, interactive and immersive Virtual worlds with conversing characters will also find many additional applications...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... central bank and interest rate control in the cashless, Arrow-Debreu economy is of no analytical or theoretical significance What the central bank does in this world, assuming that it can in fact ... level or inflation, nominal interest rate rules or justifying a role for the central bank Nominal magnitudes are nominal in name only and Wallace’s analysis is without theoretical foundations It ... that the central bank can make an arbitrarily chosen R a necessary condition for a CE N Claim Assume ∑e n t = and et0 > for t =1, For any real R the central bank n −1 (agent 0) can behave as a...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA MAURITIUS ITALY NAMIBIA DOMINICA FRANCE HUNGARY MEXICO BOTSWANA BELIZE GRENADA PANAMA BULGARIA JAMAICA OMAN MONGOLIA ROMANIA PERU ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ... HERZEGOVINA BHUTAN NIGERIA INDIA CAMBODIA MADAGASCAR SUDAN TAJIKISTAN SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MALAWI BURKINA FASO MOZAMBIQUE IRAN, ISLAMIC REP MALI GAMBIA, THE SIERRA LEONE EQUATORIAL GUINEA MAURITANIA LESOTHO ... ESTONIA GERMANY SWITZERLAND JAPAN LATVIA TAIWAN, CHINA MACEDONIA, FYR LITHUANIA PORTUGAL FRANCE NETHERLANDS BELGIUM AUSTRIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SLOVENIA CHILE BAHRAIN QATAR TUNISIA RWANDA SPAIN...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 14:09

... central bank, to choose the nominal interest rate One way to think of a central bank as enforcing a particular magnitude for the nominal interest rate is to have it offer to buy date-1 ecus for date-2 ... to have available assets with higher rates of return Also, there is no zero lower bound on nominal interest rates This bound arises in an economy with cash because people have available a technology ... central bank can make an arbitrarily chosen R a necessary condition for a CE P ˆ Claim Assume N en = and e0 > for t = 1, For any R ∈ R++ , t n=1 t the central bank (agent 0) can behave as a price...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... resulting accurate and timely information (Cigolini et al 2004), and internal cost savings in functional areas such as warehousing, manufacturing, and accounting via the adoption of information ... published papers in International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Supply Chain Management: An International ... suppliers Organisational performance Please rate your organisation’s performance in each of the following areas as compared to the industry average (1 ¼ well below industry average, ¼ well above industry...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 20:34

... Marris talks about this form as a means of managing uncertainty and displacing risk downward (Marris, 1996) Increasingly, however, this organizational structure is proving inadequate, both as ... exploring how best to describe and teach leadership are Stuart Albert, Rosita Albert, Ragui Assaad, Iman Ghazalla, Harry Boyte, Zbigniew Bochniarz, Arthur Harkins, Susan Atwood, June Nobbe, and Karen ... shared meaning in forums Political leadership: making and implementing decisions in legislative, executive, and administrative arenas Ethical leadership: adjudicating disputes in court and sanctioning...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:32

... Social: † Indiv: (average social utility in CE − average social utility in NE)/average social utility in NE average percentage in number of users obtaining higher individual utilities in CE than ... (average social utility in CE − average social utility in NE)/average social utility in NE average percentage in number of users obtaining higher individual utilities in CE than in NE all cases with ... obtaining higher individual utilities in CE than in NE the average cross-interference ratio is not above or it is less than the self-interference ratio (always normalized to 1) In all simulated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... protocol stack, the overhead data added at each layer is placed in a header, or, in the case of the data link layer, a header and trailer This procedure is known as encapsulation, and the headers and ... CSUs contain additional facilities that are used to detect and isolate line and equipment problems 2.2 Making a Data Call Consider a host (Host A) in a multilocation company that needs a data file ... Examples are: Terminal: A device used to input and display data It may have native computing and data processing capabilities A terminal relies on a host for support to accomplish the more intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... Service Means to achieve these goals include: –Ensuring confidentiality –Maintaining communication integrity –Ensuring availability Ensuring Confidentiality –Data privacy is maintained by allowing ... Providing Network Security Maintaining Communication Integrity –Data integrity means having the assurance that the information has not been altered in transmission, from origin to destination ... classifications of data, we use a combination of characteristics and the relative importance assigned to the application –We then treat all data within the same classification according to the same rules...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 14:20

... theorem In 1996, Gao o proved s(G) = D(G) + n − for any finite abelian group of order n In 1999, Bollob´s a and Leader investigated the problem of determining the minimal cardinality of | n (S)| in ... −g, we have that a1 , a1 + a2 , , a1 + a2 + + ak−1 g, g + a1 , g + a1 + a2 , , g + a1 + a2 + + ak−1 are 2k − pairwise distinct elements in | (S) Therefore, (S)| ≥ 2k − Lemma Let S ... journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #R52 Proof By Lemma we may assume that S contains no element with order Let l ≥ be the maximal integer t such that S contains t disjoint subsets each consisting...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... Lemma 2.4 we infer that a1 , a2 , , a1 7 are pairwise distinct Let A = {a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , a5 , a6 , a7 , a8 , a9 , a1 0 , a1 1 , a1 2 , a1 3 , a1 4 , a1 5 , a1 6 , a1 7 } By Lemma 2.4 and noting that ... straightforward computation shows that a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , a5 , a6 , a7 , a8 , a9 , a1 0 , a1 1 , a1 2 , a1 3 , a1 4 , a1 5 , a1 6 , a1 7 , a1 8 , a1 9 are pairwise distinct, and we are done Lemma 7.4 If x1 = ... we have a1 8 = a6 , a1 1 , a1 2 , a1 3 , a1 4 , a1 5 Therefore a1 , a2 , , a1 8 are pairwise distinct By Lemma 2.4, we have a1 9 = a1 , , a1 1 , a1 3 , , a1 8 If a1 9 = a1 2 , then a1 , , a1 8...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:20

... Courses in Mathematics CRM Barcelona [9] A Geroldinger and F Halter-Koch, Non-Unique Factorizations Algebraic, Combinatorial and Analytic Theory, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 700p, vol 278, Chapman ... Peng, and F Sun, Subsums of a zero- sum free subset of an abelian group, Electron J Combin 15 (2008), R116 [8] A Geroldinger, Additive group theory and non-unique factorizations, to appear in Advanced ... a A (x + a) = a A a a A Therefore, |A| x = We proceed by induction on r Let r = If | (0y1 ) + A| ≥ + |A| then we are done Otherwise, (0y1 ) + A = (y1 + A) ∪ A = A This forces that y1 + A = A By...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:20

... mediated analog telephone lines), so that a flag character or an escape character within the IP datagram payload shall not interrupt transmission, PPP employs character stuffing to change the meaning ... a Token Ring data frame The address fields contain the unicast hardware addresses of the destination and source or multicast or broadcast addresses • IEEE 802.2 LLC header: For IP datagrams and ... Local Area Networks contains J and K nondata symbols In addition, it contains an intermediate frame indicator bit that identifies whether this frame is the last in a sequence (0), or there are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:20

... discarding it Segmenting a large frame 5.2 Bridging 89 Table 5.1 Comparison of Frames on Different LANs Field Size Ethernet IEEE 802.3 Preamble Variable 0×AA-AA -A 0×AA-AA-AA-AAA-AA-AA -A AA-AA-AA-AA ... class of traffic Figure 4.8 includes a table that summarizes their traffic handling ability 72 Wide Area Networks ATM network interface layer IP datagram ATM AAL Convergence sublayer adaptation ... congested than AE A sends frame over link AG Because frame takes the path AGC, and frames and take the path AEFGC, frame arrives at C ahead of frames and Permanent virtual circuit 654 A 987 21 E...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:20