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Bank Characteristics and Liquidity Transformation: The Case of GCC Banks
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Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)
, 2012 , Article)
This paper uses a simple measure of liquidity creation to examines empirically the effect of bank capital and
other micro and macro-characteristics on liquidity creation. We apply the analysis to data from a sample of ...
Investigating the Relationship Between Professional Development and Student-Centered Learning Environments in Qatari Math and Science Elementary Classrooms
(2012 , Conference Paper)
While considerable study of the organizational structures and outcomes of Qatari educational reform in Education for a New Era initiatives has been planned and implemented (see Rand, 2007), little attention has been placed ...
العزل عن القضاء في الفقه الإسلامي ونظام القضاء السودي - دراسة تأصيلية فقهاً ونظاماً
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جامعة قطر
, 2012 , Article)
هذا البحث دراسة فقهية تأصيلية، قاربت فيه ما ورد في أحكام هذه المسائل في الفقه الإسلامي بما أورده نظام القضاء في المملكة العربية السعودية، والذي صدر في العام 1428 هـ ، 2008 م . تحدثت في بدايته عن أهمية القضاء ومكانته وكونه ...
Some Determinants of Student Performance in Principles of Financial Accounting (II) – Further Evidence from Kuwait
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Qatar University
, 2012 , Article)
The purpose of this study was to perform an empirical investigation of the influence of
select factors on the academic performance of students studying Principles of Financial
Accounting (II). This study attempts to fill ...
Governance-Default Risk Relationship and the Demand for Intermediated and Non-Intermediated Debt
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University of Wollongong
, 2012 , Article)
This paper explores the impact of corporate governance on the demand for intermediated debt (asset finance, bank debt, non-bank private debt) and non-intermediated debt (public debt) in the Australian debt market. Relative ...
Time-Frequency Distributions Based on Compact Support Kernels: Properties and Performance Evaluation
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IEEE
, 2012 , Article)
This paper presents two new time-frequency distributions
(TFDs) based on kernels with compact support (KCS)
namely the separable (CB) (SCB) and the polynomial CB (PCB)
TFDs. The implementation of this family of TFDs ...
Economic cost models of integrated APC controlled SPC charts
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Taylor & Francis
, 2012 , Article)
In this paper, an economic cost model is proposed for processes integrating both automatic process control (APC) and statistical process control (SPC) for quality monitoring and control. Both the special cause and common ...
A framework for condition-based maintenance scheduling
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IEEE
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents a general framework for planning and optimizing Condition-Based Maintenance scheduling. We assume that the hazard function depends, not only on time, but also on the system state which degrades over ...
A multi-modal face and signature biometric authentication system using a max-of-scores based fusion
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Springer
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Face and signature based multimodal biometric systems are often required in various areas, such as banking biometric systems and secured mobile phone operating systems, among others. Our system combines these two biometric ...
Audio-visual feature fusion for speaker identification
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Springer
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Analyses of facial and audio features have been considered separately in conventional speaker identification systems. Herein, we propose a robust algorithm for text-independent speaker identification based on a decision-level ...