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The impact of capital regulation on risk-taking of Islamic banks
No full textThis study investigates the impact of capital regulation to the risk-taking behaviour of Islamic banks by examining the impact of bank-specific variables, regulatory pressure and relationship between capital ratios and bank riskiness; using two simultaneous equations namely the changes in capital ratios equation and the changes in bank riskiness equation over the sample of 70 Islamic banks extracted from BankScope database for the period 2004 to 2010 ..
Comparative Evaluation of Profitability Determinants : Evidence of Non-Finance Versus Finance Firms
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to investigate factors that affect the profitability determinants on firms listed on the Bursa Malaysia Main Board. This study covers a period from 1999 to 2004 with 60 firms selected across six sector of economy in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are firstly to find out the factors affecting profitability of the overall sectors selected in this study; secondly to differentiate the significant profitability determinants of finance sector and non-finance sector of the
Malaysian economy. The third objective is to investigate the different sectors influence on the profitability of firms. All results are tested at 0.05 significant levels.
To achieve the objectives, multivariate regression is used to test the hypothesis. From the analysis, the result suggest that firm capital investment intensity, the leverage ratio, profit margin, asset turnover and industry capital intensity on all firms sample have significant impact on the profitability determinants. In contrast, firm sales growth and market share are not significantly related to the contribution on profitability determinants. On the other hand, the profitability determinants of nonfinance sector are affected by firm sales growth, profit margin, leverage ratio, firm capital investment intensity, asset turnover and industry capital investment intensity. For finance sector, firm size, profit margin, leverage ratio and asset turnover are the factors that contributed to profitability determinants. This study also indicated that different sectors’ effect is not significant in the determinations of profitability
between finance sector and non-finance sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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