Discussion around total factor productivity gains for the Australian Economy often focuses on infrastructure bottlenecks, technology adoption, competition and labour market flexibility. Although a potential area for gains, management is typically omitted from the public policy debate because it is considered too hard to quantify and as a result there is no concrete case for improvement. In this...

In this study, it is examined whether changes in the stock market index can be explained by the change in financial ratios. Financial statements of 11 conventional and 2 participation banks for a total of 13 banks (representing the essential part of the Turkish Banking Sector and constituting the BIST XBANK Stock Index) announced on a quarterly basis from 2002 to 2013 were extracted from the Pu...

During the observation period, purpose of this study is to ascertain how return on assets (ROA) in Islamic commercial banks affected by financing deposit ratio (FDR), non-performing (NPF), and capital adequacy (CAR).48 purposeful samples taken from Commercial Banks between 2017 2020 comprise study's population. This employs classical assumption test, which consists four tests: Normality Multico...

This paper aims to investigate the impact of credit risk on profitability banking sector in Sri Lanka. The is measured with and Return Assets. At same time, quantified four indicators: Non-performing loan Ratio (NPLR), Loan Deposit (LDR), Net Charge off (NCOR), Capital Adequacy (CAR). Data from thirteen banks over eight years 2010 2017 was analyzed using panel data regression analysis. finding ...

Accents are local events that attract a listener’s attention and are either evident from the score (immanent) or added by the performer (performed). Immanent accents are associated with grouping, meter, melody, and harmony. In piano music, performed accents involve changes in timing, dynamics, articulation, and pedaling; they vary in amplitude, form, and duration. Performers tend to “bring out”...

The authors are proposing an approach to creative forms of performing arts allowing diversity and unity to coexist. In their view, this is possible through a cross-fertilization of Western and nonWestern cultures in which the main theoretical and practical knowledge sources would derive from cognitive anthropology and the experience acquired by learning from acknowledged masters. Having questio...

John Dilworth Plays, symphonies and other works in the performing arts are generally regarded, ontologically speaking, as being types, with individual performances of those works being regarded as tokens of those types. But I show that there is a logical feature of type theory which makes it impossible for such a theory to satisfactorily explain a 'double performance' case that I present: one i...