this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...

One controversial question in the field of eye movements and reading is whether there is evidence of parafoveal-on-foveal effects. This is an important issue because some models of eye movements in reading make quite different predictions in this respect (e.g., E-Z Reader vs. SWIFT models). The aim of the current study was to investigate if parafoveal-on-foveal effects occur when reading Thai, ...

LangGeh orthography is a new writing style proposed by [1]. For Han family languages such Taiwanese or Mandarin that uses Chinese character, LangGeh proposes writing with spaces in-between, using simple short phrase as a unit. This is in contrast to word-based orthography in English and sentence-based orthography in traditional Mandarin. Easy to add spaces, LangGeh has the advangtages of reduci...

_______________ This study investigated the performance of native and non native speakers of Modern Greek language on morphology and syntax tasks. Non-native speakers of Greek whose native language was English, which is a language with strict word order and simple morphology, made more errors and answered more slowly than native speakers on morphology but not syntax tasks. It seems that Greek f...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

Greek URLs reveals that it can be fruitfully exploited towards automatic keyword identification within Greek URLs.

according to wejarkard ī dēnīg, the brave and blessed esfandiyār becomes brazen-bodied by the praying of the prophet ašū – zarduxšt in the ceremony of drōn yašt. the prophet gives him some pomegranate seeds and esfandiyār is rendered invulnerable. pahlavi zand ī vandidād says that esfandiyār cannot be hurt, harmed, threatened or wounded by sword, knife or any other weapon because of his invulne...

Many Greek and Latin medical terms are in use on account of the fact that modern day Western conventional medicine originates in Greek and Roman antiquity. The writings of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as of Celsus and Plinius, remain the principal source of the constituent elements of medical terminology and the base for the correctness of Western scientific onomatology. However, the number o...

Several studies have explored the acoustic structure of fricatives, yet there has been very little acoustic research on the effects of dialects on the production of fricatives. This article investigates the effects of two linguistically proximal Modern Greek dialects, Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek on the temporal, spectral, and coarticulatory properties of fricatives and aims to determine th...

In highly parallel message routing networks, it is sometimes desirable to concentrate relatively few messages on many wires onto fewer wires. We have designed a VLSI chip for this purpose which is capable of concentrating bit-serial messages quickly. This hyperconcentrator switch has a regular layout using ratioed nMOS and takes advantage of the relatively fast performance of large fan-in NOR g...