This study determines whether it is possible to distinguish between conventional and Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region on the basis of financial characteristics alone. Islamic banks operate under different principles, such as risk sharing and the prohibition of interest, yet both types of banks face similar competitive conditions. The combination of effects makes it unc...

This paper contains a forecasting exercise on 30 time series, ranging on several fields, from economy to ecology. The statistical approach to artificial neural networks modelling developed by the author is compared to linear modelling and to other three well-known neural network modelling procedures: Information Criterion Pruning (ICP), Cross-Validation Pruning (CVP) and Bayesian Regularization...

Gustafsson, Åsa B., and Roberta A. Gottlieb. Bcl-2 family members and apoptosis, taken to heart. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 292: C45–C51, 2007. First published August 30, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00229.2006.—Loss of myocardial cells via apoptosis has been observed in many cardiovascular diseases and has been shown to contribute to the initiation and progression of heart failure. The Bcl-2 famil...

We develop a new consistent conditional moment test of functional form based on nuisance parameter indexed sample moments. We reduce the nuisance parameter space to known countable sets, provide a new vantage into why existing parametric moment condition tests work, and uncover a new class of revealing weights. These results are exploited to construct a weighted average conditional moment test,...

<p>This research was conducted to analyze the level of sales pharmaceutical products at a Pharmacy. This is done find out types that have high and low levels. study uses C45 Data Mining Algorithm concept will produce conclusion on prediction through data processing obtained from transactions pharmacies. algorithm form decision tree provides users with knowledge about are in great demand b...