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Toplam kayıt 1451, listelenen: 321-340
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Development and future prospects of Islamic banking in Bangladesh
(International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2009)The objective of this research is to provide a brief analysis of the performance of Islamic banks in Bangladesh. The Islamic banks in Bangladesh continued to show strong growth since its inception in 1983 to June 2007, ... -
Hypoglycemic effect of crude exopolysaccharides produced by Cerrena unicolor, Coprinus comatus, and Lenzites betulina isolates in streptozotocin- induced diabetic rats
(Pharmaceutical Biology, 2009)The objective of this study was to investigate the hypoglycemic activity of crude exopolysaccharides (EPS) produced by three mushroom isolates in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. The three experimental groups were fed ... -
Uncertainty assessment techniques for system availability
(International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 2009)This paper provides an approach for assessing the uncertainty associated with the estimate of the availability of a two-state repairable system. During the design stage it is often necessary to allocate scarce testing ... -
Measuring corporate social responsibility: A scale development study
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2009)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most prominent concepts in the literature and, in short, indicates the positive impacts of businesses on their stakeholders. Despite the growing body of literature on ... -
Exploiting data topology in visualization and clustering of self-organizing maps
(IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2009)The self-organizing map (SOM) is a powerful method for visualization, cluster extraction, and data mining. It has been used successfully for data of high dimensionality and complexity where traditional methods may often ... -
Which factors affect entrepreneurial intention of university students?
(Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009)Purpose: Fostering entrepreneurship needs a twofold policy that should focus on both the current situation and future prospect of entrepreneurship. Although many scholars and policy makers devote their attention to the ... -
Global financial crisis and VaR performance in emerging markets: A case of EU candidate states - Turkey and Croatia
(Zbornik Radova Ekonomskog Fakultet au Rijeci, 2009)We investigate the relative performance of a wide array of Value at Risk (VaR) models with the daily returns of Turkish (XU100) and Croatian (CROBEX) stock index prior to and during the ongoing financial crisis. In addition ... -
Changing face of banks and the evaluation of internet banking in Turkey
(Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 2009)Banking historically has been a sector based on individual or institutional client service. In today's browser-based competitive finance world, banks need to flourish this client service viewpoint with web-empowered features ... -
Linking account portfolio management to customer information: Using customer satisfaction metrics for portfolio analysis
(Industrial Marketing Management, 2009)When appropriate variables are used, account portfolio analyses engender a convenient framework for the relationship composition of companies and allow management to reconsider which customers and relationship dimensions ... -
The investment decision-making process from a risk manager’s perspective: a survey
(Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 2009)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify associations between various inputs in the investment decision process of Saudi Arabian risk managers (RMs). Design/methodology/approach: The paper reports the views of 81 ... -
Effects of employee trainings on the occupational safety and health in accommodation sector
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2009)In our age, it is a well-known reality that human resource is the key factor of organizational success. Companies' power comes from the physical and mental strength of their workers. Therefore, sustainability of being ... -
A desktop application to learn the actual workload of the students
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2009)The use of European Credit Transfer system (ECTS) provides a reference standard for exchange students across the European Union (EU). It helps more transparency and compatibility to compare the self-study period and ... -
Empirical examination of REITs in Turkey: An emerging market perspective
(Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 2009)Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate the risk-return relationship of REITs listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) in order to assess the risk and to find some empirical results for investors within the ... -
Ethical approaches and their application in hotel manager's decision making
(European Journal of Social Sciences, 2009)This study aims at evaluating the ethical approaches effective for managers working at hotel business when making decisions. Ethics, in the working place, refers to the rules of the workplace that an employee has to comply ... -
Towards a new approach in social simulations:Meta-language
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2009)In this paper we will present a framework for bridging micro to macro emergence, macro-to-micro social causation, and the dialectic between emergence and social causation. We undertake a cultural approach for modeling ... -
On some closed sets in ideal minimal spaces
(Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 2009)The purpose of this paper is to introduce ideal minimal spaces and to investigate the relationships between minimal spaces and ideal minimal spaces. We define some closed sets in these spaces to establish their relationships. ... -
The effects of the duration of formal education on adult brain: A voxel-based morphometry - (diffeomorphic anatomical registration using exponentiated lie algebra) DARTEL study
(Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni, 2009)Objective: Recent studies neuroimaging showed that continues environmental stimuli can induce structural changes in the brain. Compared to later life, during formal education in school and university; human brain is not ... -
Automated clustering of large data sets based on a topology representing graph [Büyük veri kümelerinin topoloji betimleyen çizgeye dayali otomatik gruplandirmasi]
(2009 IEEE 17th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2009, 2009)A powerful method in analysis of large data sets where there are many natural clusters with varying statistics such as different sizes, shapes, density distribution, is the use of self-organizing maps (SOMs) [1]. However, ... -
On optimal weights in a PSNR-based objective stereo video quality measure [PSNR-tabanli bir nesnel stereo video kalite ölçüsünde en i̇yi aǧirliklar üzerine]
(2009 IEEE 17th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2009, 2009)In stereoscopic 3D video, it is well-known that humans can perceive high quality 3D video provided that one of the views is in high quality. Hence, in stereo video encoding, the best overall rate vs. perceived-distortion ... -
A layered security approach for cloud computing infrastructure
(I-SPAN 2009 - The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, 2009)This paper introduces a practical security model based on key security considerations by looking at a number of infrastructure aspects of Cloud Computing such as SaaS, Utility, Web, Platform and Managed Services, Service ...